URPoint Details
Admission charge (summer only). Disabled car parking adjacent to abbey. Slightly sloping but accessible to all visitors at ground level. Exhibition is at first floor level.
Northwest and nestling beside the river in a secluded valley are the ruins of Valle Crucis Abbey is well preserved medieval monastery and was established in its beautiful location - 'the vale of the cross' - by a Welsh ruler in 1201 for white-robed Cistercian monks.
Fine workmanship is still apparent in the monastic church, built in the dignified early Gothic style. Its majestic west front displays a perfect 'rose window' and the plainer east-end also survives nearly complete, its upper tier of pointed lancet windows strikingly framed by forked buttresses.
Perhaps the most beautiful feature of the abbey, however, is its elegantly vaulted chapter house.
- Type:
- Landmark