The stone texture of the ruins of Rievaulx Abbey near the market town of Helmsley in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park in Britain. Rievaulx Ab

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The stone texture of the ruins of Rievaulx Abbey near the market town of Helmsley in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park in Britain. Rievaulx Abbey was a Cistercian abbey, and was one of the great abbeys in England until it was destroyed by King Henry VIII of England in 1538 during the dissolution of the monasteries.

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Keywords: architecture, britain, countryside, dissolution, england, english, henry, history, king, landscape, monasteries., moors, national, park, rural, viii, yorkshire