The picture above, as with the previous blog, is the frontispiece of a book published in 1824 and entitled ‘A History of the Church and Priory of Swine in Holderness’, thus a history of the parish and of the Cistercian nunnery which existed there up to the Reformation of the late 1530s. The author was […]

(The second source of evidence on Meaux Abbey) – surviving cartularies from the 14th and 15th centuries in the national archives (cartularies were recordings of land holdings at the time). Meaux Cistercian Abbey was founded in the 12th century (s.p.b.) by William Le Gros a second generation Norman baron and Earl of York, but only

Only by virtue of the Abbey site at Meaux and the connected nunnery at Swine did the Cistercian Order impact on life in medieval East Riding, although these were both very significant sites. The East Riding does not have an equivalent of the standing ruins sites of Cistercian abbeys in North, West and South Yorkshire

The Order of Augustinian Canons proved to have the most numerous monastic sites in the East Riding. A decade after the establishment of the priory at Kirkham, s.p.b., another was established at Warter (1132), now a small estate village resulting from its ownership by the Lords Muncaster up to 1878 and Lord Nunburnholme thereafter, Lord

Today’s picture is a scan of the cover of a walk guide round Bridlington’s Old Town, the Old Town area with its fine Georgian and Victorian buildings being inland from the Harbour front and the beach. The drawing shows, like the previous picture, the Priory church’s west end, the differences in the building styles of

At the end of the blog published on 12th February I promised a quote which summarises Gilyard-Beer’s overview (s.p.b.s) of monastic history, ‘Throughout the whole of its history there has been a tendency for monasticism to fall away from its primitive zeal and austerity, giving rise to one attempt after another within the monastic body