The Cistercians |
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| The Cistersians built their monasteries in lonely places and lived lives as simple as possible. Their clothes were made of undyed wool, their food was simple (no meat, fish or eggs) and they slept on bare boards in unheated cells. They worked in the fields rather than at books, and their buildings were plain and undecorated.
Today there are ruined Cistercian abbeys at Netley, Cleeve, Fountains, Rievaulx, Furness, Tintern and Valle Crucis. |
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Remains of Rievaulx Abbey Photograph © Don Burluraux 2002 |
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