Whitby Abbey Whitby, England
Listed Building Data
Whitby Abbey has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1316347
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 23 February 1954
- Name
- WHITBY ABBEY (RUINS)
- Location
- WHITBY ABBEY (RUINS)
- Parish
- Whitby
- District
- Scarborough
- County
- North Yorkshire
- Grid Reference
- NZ 90303 11217
- Easting
- 490302.7500
- Northing
- 511217.0670
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
- 18ll Whitby Abbey (Ruins) NZ 9011 2/1 23.2.54.
I
- Founded by Oswy, king of Northumbria, in about 656, the first abbess being St Hilda. Destroyed by the Danes in circa 870 and refounded for the Benedictines by Reinfrid, one of the soldiers of William the Conqueror. Extensive ruins of the church from early Cl2 to Cl4. See 'Whitby Abbey' by Department of the Environment, AM. NMR.
Listing NGR: NZ9030811222