Byland Abbey Byland with Wass, England
Listed Building Data
Byland 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1315790
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 4 January 1955
- Name
- BYLAND ABBEY
- Location
- BYLAND ABBEY, MAIN STREET
- Parish
- Byland with Wass
- District
- Ryedale
- County
- North Yorkshire
- Grid Reference
- SE 54951 78959
- Easting
- 454951.4000
- Northing
- 478959.4286
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
BYLAND WITH WASS MAIN STREET SE 57 NW (east side) Byland 4/20 and 5/20 Byland Abbey (previously listed as By land Abbey and Abbey 4.1.55 gateway to the North West) GV I
Abbey church and monastic buildings. Now ruinous. Late C12, early C13 and C15. Limestone ashlar and rubble. Substantial remains of church including west front standing almost to full height. Ruins of monastic buildings standing to height of approximately 5 metres in places. For descriptions see DoE guidebook. Scheduled Ancient Monument. Peers C. "Byland Abbey" DoE official guidebook. Pevsner N. "Yorkshire: the North Riding" 1966.
Listing NGR: SE5495378960
