Across the cloister: dormitory (above) and (below) from left to right, entrance to library, chapter house, day stairs to dormitory and entrance to warming room. A #WanderAroundCleeveAbbey

The refectory (or fratery). A late C15 addition to the monastery and very grand surroundings perhaps for Cistercians. The door to the right leads onto domestic farmhouse rooms that were added after the Dissolution. A #WanderAroundCleeveAbbey

These wonderful buildings survive because they became part of a farm and you simply don't knock down structures this well constructed. Even so it's amazing that so much of the medieval architecture (like the windows) are preserved. A #WanderAroundCleeveAbbey

A rood in a large canopied niche on the gable end of the gatehouse. Vacant niches either side would have once (more likely than not) contained effigies of the other two members of the rood group. Dovell is inscribed on a plaque below. The last Abbot. #WanderAroundCleeveAbbey

Take Mouse's paw. She going to take you on a (albeit rainy) #WanderAroundCleeveAbbey. The gatehouse from inside the Abbey precincts. Built C13 and much altered right up until C16. The 4-light window provides dating evidence for the last of these changes

The refectory (above) and domestic rooms (below) from the cloister (although the actual cloisters themselves are long gone). At it's height the Abbey only had around 28 monks in residence and so this is a big building for such a small order. A #WanderAroundCleeveAbbey

The vast space of the dormitory. This was first built C13 as indicated by the windows to the west that are single pointed lights. These would have been unglazed and this place would have been freezing in winter #WanderAroundCleeveAbbey