Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Monday, 25 May 2026

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Wensleydale


The third of these Marian shrines, that of Our Lady of Wensleydale, as I explored in Marian pilgrimage - Our Lady of Guisborough,  Our Lady of Mount Grace, and Our Lady of Wensleydale

In that I give my reasons for preferring Jervaulx to Coverham as the home of Our Lady of Wensleydale, but I am open to correction.
 
Unfortunately less survives above ground of the abbey than at several of the other Cistercian monasteries in Yorkshire, but it is still very well worth visiting.

 
Reconstruction model of Jervaulx abbey, on display at the site

Image: linkaonline.co.uk

There are more images of the model at Jervaulx Abbey

One striking fragment thought to have been salvaged from Jervaulx is the east window of the Lady Chapel in the parish church of the nearby market town of Bedale. The remarkably interesting church, described by Wikipedia at Church_of_St_Gregory,_Bedale incorporates this over-large window. It may have been in the west or east front of the abbey, or maybe the north transept.




Image. bedale.church


The interior of the Lady Chapel

Image: Wikipedia 


May Our Lady of Wensleydale intercede for us and our intentions 

Jesu mercy, Mary pray

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