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Byland Abbey: Location
Byland Abbey: History
• Sources
• Foundation
• Consolidation
• Later Middle Ages
• Dissolution
Byland Abbey: Buildings
• Precinct
• Church
• Cloister
• Sacristy
• Library
• Chapter House
• Parlour
• Dormitory
• Warming House
• Day Room
• Refectory
• Kitchen
• Lay Brothers' Range
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Byland Abbey: Buildings
Byland abbey as it is today
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This learning-package will guide you through
various buildings within the monastic precinct, beginning with
the gate-house that stood to the NW of the abbey, and from there
moving towards the twelfth-century church and the buildings situated
around the cloister, namely, the sacristy, the library, chapter-house,
parlour, warming-house, novices’ house, day-room,
monks’ dormitory,
latrine block (reredorters), refectory and kitchen, as well as
the lay-brothers’ quarters on the western range. You can
then visit some of the buildings that stood outside the central
core such as the abbot’s
lodgings and the infirmary in the
east, and the guest complex which would have lain to the west of
the western range.
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