Whitby Abbey is a ruined Benedictine abbey above the harbor in Whitby. The infobox gives its founding as 657, and the Synod of Whitby was held there in 664. After Danish raids between 867 and 870, William de Percy granted the ruined site to Reinfrid, who re-established the monastery. The monastery was rebuilt on a larger scale in the 1220s, and the article names no architect. It calls the west front typical 14th century, with lancet windows.
Henry VIII destroyed the second monastery in 1540, though the infobox gives 1538. The Cholmley family bought the abbey, and the Strickland family passed it to the government in 1920. The ruined church is Grade I listed and owned by English Heritage.
Stanton Williams repurposed the 17th-century Cholmley House as the site museum in 2002. The infobox lists Oswiu as founder, while the text credits Reinfrid for the re-established monastery.
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