Whitby Abbey
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Whitby Abbey was a 7th-century Christian monastery that later became a Benedictine abbey. The abbey church was situated overlooking the North Sea on the East Cliff above Whitby in North Yorkshire, Eng
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A lidar view of Whitby Abbey and surrounding archaeological residues.
The arms of Whitby Abbey.
The ruins of Whitby Abbey in a 1909 book illustration
Hilda of Whitby
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Hilda of Whitby was a saint of the early Church in Britain. She was the founder and first abbess of the monastery at Whitby which was chosen as the venue for the Synod of Whitby in 664. An important f
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…Williams in 2002. The monastery was first founded in AD 657 by Oswy, King of Northumbria, as Streoneshalh, the older name for Whitby. He appointed Lady Hilda, abbess of Hartlepool Abbey and grand-niece of Edwin, the first Christian king of Northumbria, as founding abbess. The double monastery of monks and…
St. Hilda as depicted in a stained glass window in Chester Cathedral
Saint Hilda at Hartlepool by James Clark (oil painting)
Aidan of Lindisfarne visits Hilda. Gloucester Cathedral, by Christopher Whall.
St. Hilda monument detail in Whitby. Note ammonites at feet.