This form of Romanesque Cistercian church is of great simplicity ... Within its enclosing wall, the Abbey still retains other communal buildings: monks’ day room and dormitory, warming room, refectory ...

These tiles are the original tiles found in the Muniments room above the Warming Room in Fountains Abbey. The tiles were used as a practical way of flooring the room. The Muniments Room was used ...

The site was originally a Savigniac foundation out of Normandy and was later seized by the Cistercian order from Burgundy and Byland Abbey took responsibility for it. The abbey was founded in 1145 ...

She said the footpath round all the Cistercian abbey sites was "a walk through Welsh history". The Cistercian order was at its height in Wales for nearly four centuries prior to the Dissolution of the ...