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Updated: May 17, 2025
Before passing into the butcher's hands, he was exhibited in Leeds, and realised about 200 pounds as a show. Thus as a curiosity first, and as a small mountain of fat beef afterward, he proved a generous gift to the suffering operatives in the manufacturing districts. Passing through the park gate, we entered upon a lawn esplanade looking down upon the ruins of Rievaulx Abbey.
It was after passing a picturesque cottage and bridge, that the first view of Rievaulx Abbey broke upon us. It was then that the first outline of its "Gothic grandeur" was displayed to us.
The first prominent object which met our view, was the terrace, with its classical temples at each of its terminations; and next, the wood encircled hamlet of Scawton, at whose little alehouse we enjoyed a hearty breakfast; and then set forward to explore our beloved region of Rievaulx; our path being through a mountainous wood, which nearly kissed the sky, and obscured the rustic road which divided it: after several windings through this leafy labyrinth, we arrived at a point where the wood was more open, and the dell considerably wider.
Two miles from Helmsley is Rievaulx Abbey, situated in a deep, secluded valley, and the narrow byway leading to the ruin was so steep and rough that we left the car and walked down the hill.
But to conclude our peregrination the glory of Hode, Rievaulx, and Byland abbeys has departed their founders, ecclesiastics and patrons, have become dust the crumbling arch and tottering pillar alone record "the whereabouts" of the rendezvous of heroes and kings and rooks construct their dwellings where the silver crucifix once reared its massy form, before crowds of adoring monks the hoarse croak of the raven is now heard through that valley where pealed the vesper bell; and the melancholy music of the lonely river succeeds the solemn chant of mass; laugh and jest resound where monkish praise quivered through the Gothic space the helmet and coronet of blood and birth are fallen from their wearers and the genius and eccentricity of Sterne, and the wit of Wharton, are for ever extinct: "And fortress, fane and wealthy peer Along the tide of time are borne.
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