Llantarnam Abbey

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Llantarnam Cistercian Abbey
Llantarnam Abbey
Llantarnam Abbey
location United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom of Wales
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg 
Coordinates: 51 ° 37 '50 "  N , 2 ° 59' 30"  W Coordinates: 51 ° 37 '50 "  N , 2 ° 59' 30"  W.
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		488
founding year 1179
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1536
Mother monastery Strata Florida Abbey
Primary Abbey Clairvaux Monastery

Daughter monasteries

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Llantarnam Abbey (probably from Nant-teyrnon; corrupted to Lanterna; originally Caerleon or Karlionum) is a former Cistercian abbey 1 km east of Llanvihangel Llantarnam near Cwmbran in Monmouthshire (formerly Gwent ) in Wales on the road from Newport to Pontypool .

history

The monastery was donated in 1179 by Hywel ab Iorwerth , the Welsh Lord of Caerleon as a daughter monastery of Strata Florida Abbey and thus belonged to the filiation of Clairvaux Primary Abbey . It may have been moved to its later location with the renaming of Caerleon to Llantarnam by the general chapter of the order in 1273. For the late 12th century a number of 60 monks is reported, which is said to have decreased to 20 in 1317. In 1536, the year it was dissolved, there were only six monks left in the monastery, whose property was given to John Parker. In 1554 the monastery was sold to William Morgan.

Buildings and plant

The Catholic family Morgan later built a mansion around the cloister, which was rebuilt around 1830 under Sir Thomas Henry Wyatt and some of the walls of which can still go back to the Middle Ages. A grotto by the lake also uses stones from the Middle Ages. In 1946, a religious community, the Sisters of Saint-Joseph of Annecy, who still use the building today, built a chapel. Near the house is a 14th century tithe barn that has lost its roof.

literature

  • Anthony New: A guide to the Abbeys of England and Wales. Constable & Company, London 1985, ISBN 0-09-463520-X , pp. 243-244.

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