Lefroy, William Chambers · London : Seeley and Co., limited; New York, Macmillan & Co. · leaf 64
tsextent and beauty t<> the emulation excited in theminds of the monks by the ambitious and successfulwork of their neighbours of Byland. At one time itseemed as if the wanderings of that Ulysses of abbeyswere to end on the banks of the Rie at a pointnearly opposite Rievaulx ; and though the… … ^n^sv RIEVAULX ABBEY. THE TRANSEPT Rievaidx 47 moval to its next resting-place, an eager rivalry in building and adornment remained to testify to the historical fact of its former proximity. It has been truly said that the Cistercian Abbeys in Yorkshire, which are the earliest pure Gothic works in…
Abbeys -- England
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