Whitby Abbey was a monastery that converted to a Benedictine abbey in the seventh century. The abbey building was located on the East Cliff above Whitby in North Yorkshire, England, the capital of the mediaeval Northumbrian kingdom, with a view of the North Sea. The abbey and its belongings were seized by the crown between 1536 and 1545 as part of Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII. Since then, sailors have resorted to utilise the remnants of the abbey as a marker near the headland. The massive building fragments have been under the care of English Heritage since the twentieth century and are now a Grade I Listed structure; the site museum is located in Cholmley House. Oswy, King of Northumbria during the Anglo-Saxon era, established the first monastery as Streoneshalh in 657 AD. As founding abbess, he chose Lady Hilda, abbess of Hartlepool Abbey and grandniece of Edwin. In allusion to a supposedly former Roman town on the site, the name Streoneshalh is said to mean Fort Bay or Tower Bay. Alternative explanations, such as the name referring to colony of Streona, have been put out in place of this assertion, which has never been confirmed. The great Northumbrian poet Caedmon lived in the twin monastery of Celtic monks and nuns around 614-680 A.D.The successive invasions of Ingwar and Ubba between 867 and 870 A.D. resulted in the destruction of Streoneshalch monastery, which remained abandoned for more than 200 years. A soldier of William the Conqueror Reinfrid converted to Buddhism and made his way to Streoneshalh. He went to William de Percy for a land grant and received the abandoned monastery to start a new monastery. At the nascent monastery, which adhered to Benedictine tradition, Serlo de Percy, the brother of the founder, joined Reinfrid. For many years, the Benedictine abbey flourished as a centre of study. Henry VIII dismantled this second monastery in 1540 as part of the Monastery Dissolution. Sir Richard Cholmley next purchased the abbey. The Cholmley family and their successors, the Strickland family, continued to own it. In 1920, the Strickland family donated it to the British government. English Heritage is now the owner and caretaker of the ruins. [Information and Image Credit : Whitby_Abbey , Wikipedia] [Image : Whitby Abbey at sunset] [Image Availed Under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported ; Wikipedia-Image-Author : Ackers72 (Please Also Relate to Individual Image URL for More Usage Property)] [License-Link :
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