The University of Sheffield
Humanities Research Institute

The Cistercians in Yorkshire Project


Roche Abbey
The Cistercians in Yorkshire Project has created a freely available web-based learning package exploring the history and architecture the Cistercian order in Britain in general and of five Cistercian Abbeys in Yorkshire: Fountains, Rievaulx, Byland, Roche and Kirkstall in particular. Central to this learning package are three dimensional reconstructions of the five abbeys and their outbuildings. These are accompanied by texts explaining the history and importance of the Cistercian order and their abbeys.