Kirkstead Abbey
| Kirkstead Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
 Kirkstead Abbey ruins |
|
| location |
 United Kingdom Lincolnshire |
| Coordinates: | 53 ° 8 '10.3 " N , 0 ° 13' 20.7" W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
136 |
| founding year | 1139 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1537 |
| Mother monastery | Fountains Abbey |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
|
Daughter monasteries |
Hovedøya (1147) |
Kirkstead Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey in England . The monastery was about 1.5 km south of Woodhall Spa near Horncastle in Lincolnshire .
history
The abbey was founded in 1139 by Hugo Brito, the Earl of Tattershall, as the third daughter monastery of Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire from the affiliation of Clairvaux Primary Abbey . The first two abbots had moved out of the Benedictine monastery of S. Mary's in York . Kirkstead Abbey himself founded the daughter monastery Hovedøya near Oslo in Norway in 1147 . In 1187, Kirkstead Abbey was slightly moved to its later location. In the 14th century, the monastery suffered heavy losses. In 1441, the Abbot of Kirkstead, along with the Abbots of Furness Abbey , Byland Abbey , Sawley Abbey , Hailes Abbey and Morgan Abbey, was entrusted with reforming the Cistercian monasteries in England. In 1534 the income of the monastery was estimated at £ 286. In the course of the English abolition of the monastery, the abbey was dissolved in 1537 after the last abbot Richard Harrison and three monks had been executed. The monastery was covered and soon fell into disrepair. The Duke of Suffolk received it as a fief.
Plant and buildings
Except for a small fragment of the abbey church, the southeast corner of the southern transept from the 12th century, nothing of the complex has survived on a cattle pasture. A path leads to a gate chapel (St. Leonard) from the 13th century restored in 1913/1914 , the current parish church. The aerial archeology has revealed some other traces of the monastery.
literature
- Anthony New: A guide to the Abbeys of England and Wales. Constable & Company, London 1985, ISBN 0-09-463520-X , pp. 225 f.
