Byland Abbey by Fred255

Photography • Historical • posted on May 22, 2007

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My first sunny day, with blue sky! Byland was one of the great Yorkshire Cistercian abbeys, housing at its zenith well over 200 monks and lay brothers. Much of its huge cathedral-sized church survives, including the whole north side and the greater part of the 13th century west front. The mixture of rounded Romanesque and pointed Gothic arches shows how architectural styles changed and reveals that Byland was one of the earliest Gothic buildings in the north. its great circular rose window, now surviving only in part, was probably the model for the rose window of York Minster No post work done apart from borders. I used a polerizing filter