Revesby Abbey nr. Boston / Resuesbi/ Resvesbi

There is an entry for Revesby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF2961/revesby/] [accessed 23 April 2019]; it reports two churches in it. The Victoria County History (Lincoln, vol. 2, 1906) notes a Cistercian abbey founded here dedicated in honour of St. Mary and St. Laurence, in 1142; "The last notice of the house that we possess is in 1538, when the Duke of Norfolk wrote to Cromwell that it was in great ruin and decay." There are no above ground visible remains now. The entry for the abbey ruins in Historic England [List Entry Number: 1000988] notes: "The ruins of the medieval Revesby Abbey with which the deer park was associated lie to the south-west, outside the boundary of the site here registered. It was the second Abbey, built by Craven Howard, and its associated estate which was purchased in 1714 by Joseph Banks I who undertook extensively remodelling between 1716 and 1718. The entry for the abbey in Historic England PastScape [www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=352799] [accessed 23 April 2019] notes: "Excavations of the abbey has located the church and cloister and the associated inhumation cemetery."