Photo of Rievaulx Abbey, a ruined abbey in the North York Moors, North Yorkshire, northern England.

Rievaulx AbbeyPhoto Lewis Ashton / Pexels

Abbeys & priories in North YorkshireNorth Yorkshire, England

27 abbeys and priories in the Albion Guide across North Yorkshire — see the full abbeys and priories directory, or everything to explore in North Yorkshire.

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Rievaulx Abbey

Abbey · Monastery near Rievaulx

Soaring Cistercian ruin in a wooded valley.

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Whitby Abbey

Monastery · Benedictine near Whitby

Gaunt clifftop ruin above the harbour town.

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Fountains Abbey

Abbey · Cistercian near Ripon

The greatest monastic ruin in Britain, in a Yorkshire water garden.

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Mount Grace Priory

Priory · Monastery near Osmotherley

Best-preserved Carthusian monastery in England.

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Byland Abbey

Abbey · Monastery near Coxwold

Ruined abbey with a great rose window.

St Mary's Church, Studley Royal

Ruined church near Ripon

William Burges's High Victorian church in the Studley Royal deer park, built in the 1870s and richly decorated inside with marble, gilding and stained glass.

Penhill Knights Templar preceptory

Preceptory · Templar near West Witton

Penhill Knights Templar preceptory and earlier field system at Temple Farm

Kirkham Priory

Priory · Monastery near Thixendale

Kirkham Priory Augustinian monastery: monastic precinct, three fishponds, and precinct boundary

Easby Abbey

Abbey · Monastery near Richmond

Easby Abbey Premonstratensian monastery: monastic precinct, cultivation terraces, water-management features and ancillary buildings

Gisborough Priory

Priory · Monastery near Saltburn-by-the-Sea

Gisborough Priory Augustinian monastery: late Saxon settlement, cemetery, monastic precinct and dovecote

St Hilda's holy well

Holy well near Staithes

A medieval holy well in North Yorkshire.

Baysdale Cross

Abbey near Castleton

Wayside cross known as Baysdale Cross on Middle Head Intake 1000m south west of Baysdale Abbey

Baysdale Abbey

Abbey near Castleton

Baysdale Abbey Bridge, 460m east of Baysdale Farm

Coverham Abbey

Abbey · Monastery near Leyburn

Coverham Abbey Premonstratensian monastery and precinct including Holy Trinity Church and medieval bridge

Drax Augustinian priory

Priory · Augustinian near Howden

The remains of an Augustinian priory in North Yorkshire.

Ellerton Priory

Nunnery · Cistercian near Reeth

Ellerton Priory: a Cistercian nunnery including fishponds, water management system, mill, field systems and Ellerton medieval settlement

Franciscan friary

Friary · Franciscan near Richmond

The remains of a Franciscan friary in North Yorkshire.

Jervaulx Cistercian Abbey

Abbey · Cistercian near East Witton

Jervaulx Cistercian Abbey, site of post-Dissolution grand house and gardens and World War II storage structures

Laskill monastic grange

Abbey near Hawnby

The remains of a medieval abbey in North Yorkshire.

Marrick Priory

Nunnery · Benedictine near Reeth

Marrick Priory: a Benedictine nunnery and later parish church with fishponds, mill mound, ironworks, longhouse, trackways and an Iron-Age house platform