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Egglestone Abbey, England

. . . THIS MAY TAKE A MOMENT OR TWO . . .

We wish to express our gratitude to two great friends 

of the Premonstratenian Order in Britain,

Brian, for contributing the first three 

photos shown here of Eggleston, 

and Dawn, for her journey to, and tour of Eggleston Abbey, 

providing the remainder of these superb photographs!

Egglestone Abbey from the air.
Egglestone from across the river Tees.
Abbey Church, Egglestone
Another view of the Abbey Church
Dayroom range from the side chapel.
Remains of high altar portion of church.
Only spiral staircase (upper portion of opening, at right) at Egglestone.
Opening in wall by spiral staircase.
Window at rear of nave.
Exit door at rear of nave.
Church exit to cloister area.
View up to the altar area from the rear of the nave.  You can see the stone tomb at the crossing point of the trancept.
Windows in the north wall of the nave.
Stone tomb of Sir Ralph Bowes of Streatlam.   The carvings were extremely detailed and hardly weathered.
View down the nave from the high altar area.
Large recess in the south wall by the high altar.
Sacramentary recesses in the vicinity of the high altar.
Closeup of the Sacramentary by the high altar.
Close up of altar area / apse of church.
Slope down to the road -- you can clearly see here that the Abbey was built on a raised area of ground.
A close-up of the "stone fill" method of construction!
East wall of dayroom range -- you can see the two levels easily because so many of the window openings remain.
View down the nave to the rear of the church, taken from the side chapel.
Outside view of lower window in dayroom range.
Outside view of upper windows in dayroom range.
Various views of the store room under the Novice quarters.
Another view of the storeroom.
Another view of the storeroom.
Drainage channel under the Novice quarters.
Another view of the drainage channel under the Novice quarters.
View down to the road, taken from the rear of the Novice quarters.
Entrance to the "warming room".
Stairs up to the dormitory, taken from Novice's room.
Fireplace in the Novice's room.
View down to the river Tees.
View in the vicinity of the Novices quarters / dayroom area.
Recess in Novice's quarters above and to the right of the fireplace.
View from the Novice's quarters across the cloister to the kitchen and western range.
Refectory from Novice's quarters.
Cloister and rear of the church from Novice's quarters.
End of dayroom, looking towards Novice's quarters.
Chimny about halfway down the east side of the dayroom!
Remains of the Refectory.  Apparently there are undercrofts (cellars) under the Refectory, but there was no evidence of them.
View down the length of the kitchen and western range.
The back of the nave and south trancept.
The dayroom and dormitory range across the cloister, as seen from the western range.
Another view of the dayroom and dormitory range across the cloister, as seen from the western range.
Windows of the south trancept.
Standing wall between rear of the church and the western range.
Tomb of an abbot close to that of Sir Ralph.   It is clearly an abbot's tomb because of the presence of the Crosier carving at left.
Windows on the south wall of the nave.
Windows on the south wall of the nave.
View of the Abbey as seen on the approach road.
Another view of the Abbey from the approach road.
This is an older photograph of Egglestone found in the Archives of St. Norbert Abbey, De Pere, Wisconsin, U.S.A.