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Description: | Originally founded as a double house priory in 657 and destroyed by Danes circa 867, (see NZ91SW161). Refounded as a Benedictine Priory by 1077, but lapsed. It was refounded as a Benedictine Abbey by 1109. Dissolved in 1539. The church was left intact at the Dissolution and was almost complete as late as 1711 but is now in ruins. The earliest part of the church dates from 1220, there are also 14th century additions. Dependencies: Hackness, Middlesborough, Fishergate (York) and St Michael's Hospital, Whitby. Scheduled listed and in guardianship. | Subjects: | Inhumation Cemetery Priory Benedictine Monastery Religious Ritual And Funerary Abbey Church | Source: | English Heritage - Viewfinder | Creator: | National Monuments Record | Identifier: | http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk... | Language: | en | Go to resource |
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