Hulton Abbey
| Hulton Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
| location |
 United Kingdom England Staffordshire |
| Coordinates: | 53 ° 1 '41 " N , 2 ° 8' 30" W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
578 |
| founding year | 1219 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1538 |
| Mother monastery | Combermere Abbey |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
|
Daughter monasteries |
no |
Hulton Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey in England . The monastery was about a kilometer south of Milton on the road from Stoke-on-Trent to Leek in Staffordshire near the River Trent .
history
Founded in 1219 by Henry Audley , the abbey was a subsidiary of Combermere Abbey from the congregation of Savigny Monastery , which had joined the Cistercian order in 1147. The monastery thus belonged to the filiation of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey . In 1395 the monastery acquired the Cammeringham Priory in Lincolnshire . Grangia were established in Rushton and Hulton. Dubbed poor and small (considered one of the smallest in Staffordshire), the monastery ran sheep raising, a blacksmith's shop, coal mines, and produced encaustic tiles. In 1377 there were only five monks, eight when it was dissolved. The income of the monastery was given as a total of £ 87 in 1335. However, due to an exception to the rules, it was not withdrawn from the Crown in 1536 but not until 1538 and awarded to Stephen Bagot, while Sir Edward Aston et al. a. the mansion at Hulton received. A farm was built on the site of the choir and crossing of the church, which has since disappeared. Excavations took place in 1884, shortly after 1930, and 1987 to 1994 (the latter by The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery's Archeology Field Unit). Today the site is owned by Staffordshire County Council, which operates Carmountside Junior High School on the site just east of the monastery.
Plant and buildings
The excavations have unearthed some remains of hewn stones (choir or transept). The monastery was a system in the Bernardine plan (three-aisled nave with six bays, transept with two chapels on the east sides, simple rectangular choir). The enclosure was in the south (to the right of) the church, the chapter house had nine bays with four columns.
literature
- Houses of Cistercian monks: The abbey of Hulton. In: William Page, MW Greenslade (Ed.): The Victoria history of the county of Stafford. Volume 3. Constable, London 1970, ISBN 0-19-722732-5 , pp. 235-237 ( The Victoria History of the Counties of England ), online .
- Anthony New: A guide to the Abbeys of England and Wales. Constable & Company, London 1985, ISBN 0-09-463520-X , p. 212, with a plan of the plant.
- John L. Tomkinson: A History of Hulton Abbey. City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent 1997, ISBN 1-874414-17-3 ( Staffordshire Archaeological Studies. No. 10).
- William D. Klemperer, Noel Boothroyd: Excavations at Hulton Abbey, Staffordshire 1987-1994. Society for Medieval Archeology, Leeds 2004, ISBN 1-904350-30-5 ( Society for Medieval Archeology Monograph 21).