Basingwerk Abbey

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Cistercian Abbey Basingwerk
Basingwerk Abbey in winter
Basingwerk Abbey in winter
location United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom of Wales
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg 
Coordinates: 53 ° 17 '17.9 "  N , 3 ° 12' 27.2"  W Coordinates: 53 ° 17 '17.9 "  N , 3 ° 12' 27.2"  W.
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		249
founding year 1147
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1536
Mother monastery Savigny Abbey
later Buildwas Abbey
Primary Abbey Clairvaux Monastery

Daughter monasteries

no

Basinwerk Abbey, c.1778

Basingwerk Abbey (Welsh: Abaty Dinas Basing) was a Cistercian monk abbey in Wales . The ruin is about 1/2 km southwest of Greenfield (Maes-Glas) in Flintshire (formerly Clwyd ) on the road to Holywell (Treffynnon), not far from the estuary of the River Dee .

history

The abbey was probably founded in 1132 by Ranulph de Gernon, 2nd Earl of Chester . It was initially located in Hen Blas, which is around 5 km closer to Flint (Y Fflint). The monastery belonged to the congregation of the Savigny Monastery in Normandy and joined the Cistercian Order in 1147 in the filiation of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey and was subordinated to Buildwas Abbey in 1157 . The monastery received donations from both the Welsh princes and the English nobility. The abbey, loyal to the English ruling family, received various privileges and donations, including a. two houses in Glossop and West Kirby, and St. Winifred's Spring, which Holywell named. The monastery operated a flour mill on the Holywell River. Around 1170 it was placed under Buildwas Abbey in Shropshire . In 1535 the annual income was estimated at 150 pounds; At that time, there should have been a maximum of three monks in the monastery. In 1536 the monastery was confiscated from the Crown and bestowed on Henry ap Harry and Peter Mutton. A re-establishment under the rule of Queen Maria I remained an episode. The facility is looked after by Cadw .

Plant and buildings

The church from the 13th century, the western part and most of the eastern part of the enclosure have all but disappeared. The church corresponded to the Bernhardin plan with a rectangular choir, transept with two side chapels in the east and a three-aisled nave with seven bays. The enclosure was south (to the right of) the church. Two arches on the east side of the chapter house have been preserved; its west side dates from the 12th century. The lead roofs of the abbey were probably used for the roof of the castle in Dublin . The walls of the refectory from a somewhat later period on the south side of the cloister, the west wall of which has lancet windows, have largely been preserved.

literature

  • Anthony New: A guide to the Abbeys of England and Wales. Constable & Company, London 1985, ISBN 0-09-463520-X , pp. 49-50, with plan.
  • David Robinson (ed.), The Cistercian Abbeys of Britain. Far from the Concourse of Men. Batsford, London 1997, ISBN 0-7134-8392-X , pp. 66f.
  • David, H. Williams The Welsh Cistercians. Leonminster 2001, ISBN 0-85244-354-4 .

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