Coverham Abbey Ruins is a Grade I listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1967. A 13th century Monastic ruins. 2 related planning applications.
Coverham Abbey Ruins
- WRENN ID
- weathered-basalt-candle
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1967
- Type
- Monastic ruins
- Address
- Coverham Abbey Ruins, Coverham with Agglethorpe, North Yorkshire, DL8 4RL
- OS grid reference
- SE 106 864
- Coordinates
- 54.2732, -1.83872
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Coverham Abbey Ruins are the remains of a Premonstratensian abbey, dating from the 13th and 14th centuries. The structure is built of rubble faced with ashlar and features four sections of the abbey church that are not part of existing buildings.
The first section is the 13th-century west wall of the north transept, which has a roll top to the plinth on the outside and is pierced by two lancet windows with hollow and roll mouldings. The second section includes the 13th-century west wall of the north aisle and nave, featuring a small pointed-arched opening with a roll moulding on the chamfer. The third section consists of two 14th-century arches from the south nave arcade, supported by three filleted quatrefoil-plan piers, with arches that have two deep orders and a wave moulding on the chamfers. The fourth section includes the 14th-century south respond of the east nave arch and part of the west wall of the south transept.
The abbey was relocated from Swainby around 1202 and suffered damage from Scottish incursions in 1331-32. Coverham Abbey is scheduled as an Ancient Monument, and a guidebook is available for purchase at a nearby nursery.
Local climate
Coverham Abbey Ruins receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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