Welcome to Byland Abbey, one of England's finest examples of Cistercian monastic architecture. Join us as we explore the abbey as a place of devotion, prayer, peaceful seclusion and a space of discipline, order, and even confinement.
All Saints is an ancient church lying just off the picturesque village green of Old Byland. The church dates back to Saxon/Norman times, late 11th and early 12th century. Old Byland is about one mile above Rievaulx Abbey in the North York Moors.
The church was built in 1146 by the cistercian monks who later built Byland Abbey, and is structurally unchanged. It lies in the attractive hamlet of Scawton in idyllic Upper Ryedale. St Mary's is Grade I listed, and has many historical features.
