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You will be most welcome to wander among the ruins, have a picnic on the lawns and stroll through the fascinating herb garden at Grey Abbey. There are staff available to give you more information about the ruins, and the site is suitable for infirm or disabled visitors....

Cistercians were brought from Furness in Lancashire to construct the monastic buildings, which were laid out according to the accustomed Cistercian ground-plan, with a church on the northern side of an open cloister garth and with community and domestic buildings enclosing the other three sides. Of these, only the choir with its graceful triple lancet windows in the east gable survives to anything like its original height, though the transepts with their rib-vaulted open twin chapels, and the b...