Rievaulx Abbey: Community, Architecture, Memory (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
ISBN-10:
0300078315
ISBN-13:
9780300078312
Author(s): Fergusson, Peter; Harrison, Stuart
Edition: Edition Unstated
Released: Dec 31, 1999
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover, 282 pages
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Description:
From its foundation in 1132, Rievaulx Abbey in North Yorkshire was home to as many as 650 monks, and became one of the most important Cistercian abbeys, both architecturally and spiritually. This, the first architectural study of the abbey, as well as a review of its 800 year history, looks at the building itself, and the surrounding structures and landscape. Through photographs, plans and reconstructions, Fergusson and Harrison make a detailed study of the infirmary, the walled precinct, the service buildings, and the church itself, producing an historical interpretation of history and function in terms of the abbey's religious and domestic life.
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