Yesterday I went on a field trip with the Institute for Medieval Studies (of which I am kind of a member) here at the university. We visited St Mary’s Church at Lastingham, which was at one point an abbey but is now a parish church, and then Rievaulx and Byland abbeys, which are both Cistercian ruins. These pictures are from Lastingham. (Family: The names of the places we went are links if you feel inclined to click them.) Also, the University of Sheffield has some really thorough information about Cistercian abbeys in Yorkshire here. These pictures are from Lastingham.
I like to call this, MY LIFE IS AWESOME. Those are Roman artifacts, and I got to touch them. While standing in a Norman crypt. Dudes. I was in a room that’s just shy of 1,000 years old. Think about it.
