Flaxley Abbey
| Flaxley Cistercian Abbey | |
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| location |
 United Kingdom England Gloucestershire |
| Coordinates: | 51 ° 50 '10 " N , 2 ° 27' 7" W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
329 |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1151 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1536 |
| Mother monastery | Bordesley Abbey |
| Primary Abbey | Citeaux monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
no |
Flaxley Abbey (Flexleya, Dene, Dean) is a former Cistercian monk abbey in Flaxley in Gloucestershire in England , about 14.5 km west-southwest of Gloucester and 2 km north of the A 4151 road from Cinderford to Westbury in the Forest of Dean .
history
The monastery was donated by Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd Earl of Hereford in 1151 as a daughter monastery of Bordesley Abbey at the point where his father Miles of Gloucester is said to have found death while hunting in the forest of Dean, and thus belonged to the filiation of Cîteaux on. The monastery, which was never wealthy, but nonetheless had a library of over a hundred books, was under royal protection and has been used as royal hunting quarters since the reign of King Heinrich II . The Konversenrefektorium was soon converted into a guest room. Around 1355 King Edward III. improve and beautify the guest room for its own use. The monastery income was valued at 112 pounds in 1535. By the time the monastery was dissolved in 1536, some of the monastery buildings were already in an advanced state of ruin and the church had burned down. After the liquidation and handover to Sir William Kingston , the west and south wings were converted into a mansion and sold to the Boevey family in 1647. The gate chapel became the church of the village of Flaxley. The west wing, modified in the 16th and 17th centuries, was partially destroyed by a fire in 1777. Then its northern part was removed and a new south wing was built by Anthony Keck . In the 19th century it was Gothicized, and another redesign followed in the years 1961 to 1962. The house is privately owned and is not accessible, but can be seen.
Buildings and plant
The abandoned church, from which the foundations of the south transept were located under the existing gardens, was in the north. On the northern part of the cloister is an orangery from the 18th century. The west wing (originally the Konversen wing) has been converted into the existing house. The former Dormitory of the Converses (later the guest room) has four windows from the 17th century. Below it is the vaulted converse refectory from the 12th century. The abbot's hall with carvings and four loopholes is located above the former latrine in the south of the west wing. The chapter house was in the former east wing; its place is partly taken by a pond.
literature
- Anthony New: A guide to the Abbeys of England and Wales. Constable & Company, London 1985, ISBN 0-09-463520-X , pp. 177-179, with photo and map.
- J. Henry Middleton: Flaxley Abbey - the existing Remains. In: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Vol. 6, 1881/1882, ISSN 0068-1032 , pp. 280-283, online (PDF; 47 kB) .