Whitby Abbey perched on its headland above the North Sea. Site of an august Saxon foundation under the Abbess Hilda, the monastery was abandoned due to Danish raids. It was re-established in the 1070s by one Reinfrid, a Norman knight-turned monk, and became the seat of a Benedictine community that lasted until the Reformation. A romanesque structure was gradually replaced by the great Gothic church whose ruins can be seen today, mostly in the thirteenth century.
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