EGGLESTONE ABBEY is a township, 1 ½ miles from the church, on the banks of the Tees. Here are the ruins of the once stately abbey, said to have been founded by Ralph De Multon in 1189 for White Canons, and dedicated to St. Mary and St. John the Baptist: the buildings included a small but singularly beautiful cruciform church, without aisles, begun in the Norman period, but almost entirely rebuilt (if completed originally) in the 13th century; and on the north side cloisteirs, with the usual surroundings: the existing remains comprise the greater portion of the walls of the nave and choir, and the west wail of the south transept, and some of the windows still retain their mullions and tracery: the lower part of the north wall of the nave is of Norman date: the north and west walls of the north transept existed till about 1889, when they were destroyed by the fall of an early 17th century mansion, which abutted on the transept and had been allowed to go to decay; only a few fragments of the Norman buildings which once inclosed the cloister are now left, but at the end of the eastern side there remains a “necessarium,” with vaulting of the 13th century. In 1890—1, by the advice of Mr. J. T. Micklethwaite F.S.A, some necessary repairs were effected by Mr. R. A. Morritt, of Rokeby Park, the late proprietor. At the dissolution, of this monastery its revenues were estimated at £36. From this place can be seen the grounds of Rokeby Park, the property of Henry Edward Morritt esq. and the residence of James Jardine Bell-Irving esq. J.P. The abbey bridge, which crosses the Tees to Barnard Castle, in the county of Durham, is an embattled structure of a single arch, built by the late R. A. Morritt’s grandfather in 1773, and is now the property of his trustees; the height to the battlements is 76 feet above the bed of the river. Henry Edward Morritt esq. is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The area is 643 acres of land and 6 of water; rateable value, £715; the population in 1911 was 41.