Bordesley Abbey
| Bordesley Cistercian Abbey | |
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 Excavations at Bordesley Abbey |
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| location |
 United Kingdom England Worcestershire |
| Coordinates: | 52 ° 18 ′ 59 ″ N , 1 ° 56 ′ 12 ″ W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
132 |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1138 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1538 |
| Mother monastery | Garendon Abbey |
| Primary Abbey | Citeaux monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
Merevale Abbey (1148) |
Bordesley Abbey (Bordeslega) is a former Cistercian monk abbey about 1 km north-northeast of Redditch in Worcestershire in England and 0.5 km east of the A441 road.
history
The monastery was in 1138 de of Waleran Beaumont, Count of Meulan and Earl of Worcester, as a daughter house of Garendon Abbey and again in 1141 by the Queen Mathilda who claimed the land as their property donated, making it one of the filiation of Cîteaux at . It founded the daughter monasteries Merevale Abbey (1148), Flaxley Abbey (1151) and Stoneleigh Abbey (1155 with a previous establishment between 1138 and 1147). Although the monastery was considered a royal monastery, it was in trouble in the Middle Ages but recovered from the 14th century. The monks worked metalworking and producing tiles. In 1538 the monastery was dissolved and given as a fief to Thomas Evans, but soon fell to the Lords of Windsor. The buildings were soon demolished. Only the gatehouse and St. Stephen's Chapel survived for a long time, the latter until 1807. Until the 20th century, the area belonged to the Lords Windsor, who later became the Earls of Portsmouth. Today the facility is in a public park. Reading University is running the Bordesley Abbey Project.
Buildings and plant
The regular layout essentially corresponded to the Bernardine plan with the cross-shaped, three-aisled church in the north, rectangular closed choir, transept with three side chapels on both arms in the east, nave with seven bays, the cloister in the south of the church, with the south transept in the The cloister stepped in and interrupted it, a relatively large chapter house with six columns in the east, kitchen, calefactorium and refectory in the south, the latter at right angles to the cloister, and the guest house, probably in the area of the former lay brother's wing, in the west. Larger remains have been preserved in particular from the eastern part of the church. Various excavated remains have ended up in the County Museum at Hartlebury Castle.
literature
- Anthony New: A guide to the Abbeys of England and Wales. Constable & Company, London 1985, ISBN 0-09-463520-X , pp. 72-73.