Qualla: Coverham Abbey https://qualla.com/coverham-abbey en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Coverham Abbey https://qualla.com/coverham-abbey Coverham Abbey: Introduction https://qualla.com/coverham-abbey/ When Helewise, daughter of Henry II's Chief Justiciar, founded an abbey for her soul's sake in 1187 or 1188, she chose a spot at Swainby in the lowlands of North Yorkshire. She did not live to see it moved. After her death in 1195, her son Ranulf fitzRalph carried her body up Coverdale to a quieter site by the river - and refounded the monastery there around 1212. That is where the ruins of Coverham Abbey still stand: a small Premonstratensian house remembered in the masonry of a country garden, in the springs of a gatehouse arch, and in the names of the dead buried beneath the chapter house floor.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/s/coverham-abbey-wp/gcws-coverham-abbey-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Coverham Abbey: The Founder's Family https://qualla.com/coverham-abbey/ Helewise was a daughter of Ranulph de Glanville, Sheriff of Yorkshire and later Chief Justiciar to Henry II - one of the most powerful officials in twelfth-century England, the man who effectively ran the country in the king's name. She married Robert, Lord of Middleham, whose ca...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/s/coverham-abbey-wp/gcws-coverham-abbey-the-founders-family.mp3 0:06 2 full Coverham Abbey: Three Centuries of Quiet https://qualla.com/coverham-abbey/ The Wikipedia summary is honest about how little is known: there is some evidence the abbey and its holdings were attacked by Scots raiders during the first half of the fourteenth century, with the abbey itself virtually destroyed. Later in the same century a record names fifteen...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/s/coverham-abbey-wp/gcws-coverham-abbey-three-centuries-of-quiet.mp3 0:06 3 full Coverham Abbey: The End in 1536 https://qualla.com/coverham-abbey/ By the time the Dissolution arrived under Henry VIII, Coverham Abbey was a modest house with fewer than a dozen monks, its day-to-day lands managed by the monastic bailiff Edward Loftus - whose son Adam Loftus would later become Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/s/coverham-abbey-wp/gcws-coverham-abbey-the-end-in-1536.mp3 0:06 4 full Coverham Abbey: What You Can See Now https://qualla.com/coverham-abbey/ Coverham today is a quieter place than even the medieval monks would have known. The principal surviving remains include the ruins of the church and the guesthouse, which were incorporated into two houses: Garth Cottage, and a second house built on the site in 1674. The 1674 hous...

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