Description
January 29th, 2022, Coverham, Leyburn, Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, England. Coverham Abbey was founded in 1212 by the Norman Lord, Ranulf fitzRalph. It was partly destroyed by marauding Scottish raiders in the first half of the 14th century. Some monks remained in whatever structures that remained standing, though they were eventually pensioned off at the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII, when The Church's properties adn land was confiscated by The Crown. It was an abbey of the Premonstratensians, an order also known as the Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré or White Canons, whose origins lay in Germany and France. circa early 12th century. After The Dissolution, it gradually faded into obscurity, parts of it being absorbed by surrounding farms. Here is a prime example of this, showing a simple old and disused shelter that has somehow managed to acquire two delicate and circular worked stone columns from the old abbey's structure, probably the cloister's area, to support its old tin roof.
