Ruins Of Egglestone Abbey

presbytery rebuilt c.1250

nave widened to south, south transept rebuilt and west range constructed 1275-1300

cloister ranges converted to house in mid- C16.

Nave has chamfered plinth, pilaster buttresses on north and west, and a moulded cornice on corbels below a C15 heightening.

At west end a blocked doorway, with a late C13 2-light window, replacing a pair of earlier lancets.

two late C13 2-light windows

a C15 stair turret.

Monuments include table tomb with arcaded sides to Sir Ralph Bowes, d. 1482, inscribed slab to 'T. Rokeby, Bastarde': relief cross fleury with crozier,and brass indents.

East range of cloister 3 storeys: largely mid-C16 with 2-, 3- and 4-light mullioned windows, those to ground floor with heraldic or head hoodmould stops.

Interior: C16 lst-floor fireplace with flat-pointed head

the north end the C13 groin-vaulted rere-dorter undercroft with a segmental-arched fireplace.

North range shows remains of warming house fireplace, and a large C16 stepped stack to north.

Historical notes: Abbey founded between 1195 and 1198 by the de Multon family, as a daughter house of Easby.

It was a poor house, suffering heavy losses in the C14 Scottish Wars, the canons still being exempted from taxes in 1496 'on account of their notorious poverty'.

After Dissolution in 1540 it was granted to Robert Strelley and the domestic buildings converted to a house, which by the C19 had labourers' cottages. c.1900 the north transept was demolished to provide stone for paving the stable yard at Rokeby Hall.

Scheduled Ancient Monument.