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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es and children, and the tramp of soldiers, theneighing of houses, and baying of hounds, made thecloister more like a knights castle than a place dedi-cated to Gods service.! The attempt of St. Odo ofCluny, to remedy this state of things, was doomedto ultimate failure, because he still left everything * Harding, says Mr. Freeman, was doubtless his baptismalname, and Stephen the name which he took on entering religion.t The Cistercian Saints of England ; Edited by J. H. N. 8 The Ruined Abbeys of Yorkshire. dependent on the individual Abbots. Stephens ideawas to create an order which should be self-regulatingand self-reforming. With this view he instituted asystem of reciprocal visitation among the Cistercianhouses and subordinated them all to the parent house where, is one of the results of that body ofstatutes, the Carta Caritatis, as it was called,which Stephen Harding the Englishman presentedto his assembled abbots in 1119. And to thisuniformity is attributed, with much probability,
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RIEVAULX ABBEY. THE CHOIR, LOOKING SOUTH. of Citeaux. Here every year, on Holy Cross Day(14th September), a general chapter was to be heldunder the presidency of the Pater UniversalisOrdinis—the Abbot of Citeaux. The uniformity which enables us, in passing fromone Cistercian ruin to another, to predict with cer-tainty what buildings we shall find or trace, and the remarkably rapid spread of the pointed archafter its first appearance in England. Two otherpeculiarities, the one a characteristic quality, theother a noticeable feature, of Cistercian architecture,owe their origin and significance to the foundersof the order. The first is their simplicity. All original Cister- Rievaulx. 9 cian work is plain and good. A severe self-restrainteverywhere forces the loving ardour of these wifelessand childless builders to flow in narrow channels.The zeal of the sacred house is eating them up, butthey have to hold their eager hands from lofty tower choir was without aisles, though the usual cha

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