| Sponsor: | Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses |
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| Organiser: | Terryl N. Kinder, _Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses_, Pontigny |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Terryl N. Kinder, _Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses_, Pontigny |
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| Paper 730-a | Villard de Honnecourt's Plan of Vaucelles Abbey: A Reassessment
(Language: English)
Sandrine Conan, Institut de Recherches et d'histoire du Septentrion (IRHiS - UMR 8529), Université Lille III - Charles de Gaulle / Departement Architectuur, KU Leuven
Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Archives and Sources, Monasticism, Religious Life |
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| Paper 730-b | Revesby Abbey: Recovering Rievaux Abbey's Daughter-House in Lincolnshire, I
(Language: English)
Glyn Coppack, Archaeological & Historical Research, Goxhill
Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Monasticism, Religious Life |
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| Paper 730-c | Revesby Abbey: Recovering Rievaux Abbey's Daughter-House in Lincolnshire, II
(Language: English)
Stuart Harrison, Ryedale Archaeology Services, Pickering
Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Monasticism, Religious Life |
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| Abstract | Paper -a:
On folio 17 of his famous sketchbook from around 1230-1235, Villard de Honnecourt drew a plan of a sanctuary that he identifies as the abbey church of Vaucelles. The village of Honnecourt-sur-l'Escaut, where Villard is said to be from, is located 6 km from Vaucelles (south of Cambrai). Two excavation campaigns of the church's site in 1861 and 1988 verified the authenticity of Villard's drawing. Yet dating for Vaucelles remains hypothetical. This paper aims to understand why this uncommon design was adopted at Vaucelles and why it attracted Villard's attention. Was it related to a specific liturgy, a precise symbol, a burial program of benefactors, or the presence of certain relics? Because neither Villard nor the excavations give any information about the sanctuary's elevation, a comparative study of church designs both within the Cistercian space and the early Gothic will be presented.
Paper -b and -c:
The foundation of Rievaux Abbey's daughter house of Revesby in Lincolnshire between 1141 and 1143 was a text-book example of a founder clearing a vill on the margin of a major manor to enable the implantation of a Cistercian abbey. What has been largely overlooked is that the site was the subject of a remarkably well-recorded excavation in 1869-70, with the recovery not only of a demonstrably accurate plan of the church but also a substantial quantity of architectural detail that - together with a series of late 12th century charters - dates a major rebuilding of the abbey to the 1190s, and places Revesby Abbey fully in the context of the development of Cistercian abbeys in the north of England.
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