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  • Conisbrough Castle

    Conisbrough Castle

    Close to the South Yorkshire town of Doncaster, Conisbrough is the finest example of a complete Norman keep in Britain...click name to read

  • Howden Minster

    Howden Minster

    This beautiful minster can be found in the East Riding of Yorkshire market town of Howden. A church has stood on this site since Saxon times ... click name to read

  • Roche Abbey

    Roche Abbey

    Roche was one of the first abbey churches to be built completely in the new Perpendicular Gothic style...click name to read

  • Selby Abbey

    Selby Abbey

    The finest example of a typical Norman Abbey in Britain to day, also the first monastery to be built in the North of England following the Norman invasion...click name to read

  • Rievaulx Abbey

    Rievaulx Abbey

    The first Cistercian settlement in the North of England, Rievaulx was spawned directly from the Order’s base at Clairvaux in France in 1132...click name to read

  • Fountains Abbey

    Fountains Abbey

    Created by disillusioned Benedictine monks from St Mary’s abbey in York, Fountains rose from inauspicious beginnings...click name to read

  • Thaxted Church

    Thaxted Church

    Known as the Catherdral of Essex, Thaxted is a substancial parich church built around 1340 to the design of a monastic abbey or priory...click name to read

  • Beverley Minster

    Beverley Minster

    In the East Riding market town of Beverely, once one of the largest towns in Britain c1370, the Minster is famous for it’s twin Perpendicular Gothic towers....click name to read