Coverham Abbey antique print from Grose's "Antiquities ..." 1785
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Coverham Abbey Yorkshire. Original copper-plate engraved antique print of Coverham Abbey, North Yorkshire, England, a Premonstratensian monastery originally founded at Swainby in 1190 by Helewisia, daughter of the Lord Chief Justice Ranulf de Glanville. It was refounded at Coverham in about 1212 by her son Ranulf fitzRalph, who had the body of his late mother reinterred in the chapter house at Coverham. Print from "Antiquities of England and Wales’ by Francis Grose. Antique print dated in the plate July 20, 1785.