Identifier: ruinedabbeysofyo00lefr_0 (find matches)
Title: The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Lefroy, William, 1836-1900
Subjects: Abbeys
Publisher: London, Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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n the north sideof the church, and the cemetery on the south ; butthe above is the more usual arrangement. The cloister, or at least its north wall, is oftenglazed and supplied with seats for study. A passageunder the dormitory leads to the smaller cloister—that of the infirmary. Here are a separate hall andchapel. The guest-house for strangers of rank includesa dining-hall, bed-rooms (each containing severalbeds), stables, servants rooms, kitchen, bake-house,brew-house, and store-room. Visitors of less distinc- Yorkshire, or rather Northumbria, is said to havebeen thickly strewn with monasteries in the earlydays of St. Cuthbert, the missionary of the seventhcentury. We may certainly trace in various writersthe names of something like a dozen, of which noother remains are to be found. Most of these, how-ever, seem like the original foundation of St. Hild atWhitby, to have belonged to an earlier and less per-fect system than the Benedictine. It was the bishops Dormitory. f Infirmary.
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SL Marys, York. 5 and monks of Scotland who, after the conversion ofthe Saxons, did for Northumbria what St. Augustinehad done for Kent; and Burton (Monast. Ebor.)mentions that ten monasteries were founded by themin Yorkshire before the Danish invasion of 832. Ofthese, Lastingham, founded in 648, and Whitby abouteleven years later, were the first. The early founda-tions were troubled now by the attacks of the Danes,and now by the support given by Saxon kings to thesecular party in the church. While the prayer fordeliverance a furore Northmannorum is yet uponthe lips of the monks, comes the rough hand ofan Eadwig to disturb them. For, as William ofMalmesbury records, et Malmesburiense ccenobium,plusquam ducentis septuaginta annis a monachisinhabitatum, dcricorum stabulum fecit.* But the Danes, after all, were their worst enemies.Burton tells usf that after the devastation of Nor-thumbria by Inguar and Hubba—a hundred yearsbefore* Eadwig, by the by—■ there were few remainsof monas

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