Revesby Abbey

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Revesby Cistercian Abbey
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location United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom England Lincolnshire
EnglandEngland 
Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  N , 0 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  N , 0 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  W
Serial number
according to Janauschek
186
founding year 1143
Year of dissolution /
annulment
1538
Mother monastery Rievaulx Abbey
Primary Abbey Clairvaux Monastery

Daughter monasteries

Cleeve Abbey

Revesby Abbey was a Cistercian monk abbey in England . The monastery was in Revesby in Lincolnshire , on the northern edge of the West Fen and about 1 km south of the present-day town of Revesby and the A 155 road.

history

The abbey was founded in 1143 by William de Roumare , the Earl of Lincoln, who later entered the monastery as a monk, as the fourth daughter monastery of Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire from the filiation of the Primary Abbey of Clairvaux and under the leadership of Aelred von Rievaulx , later abbot of Rievaulx, settled from Rievaulx. Revesby Abbey was the mother monastery of Cleeve Abbey (Vallis Florida) in Somerset . In Revesby there was already an older settlement that was no longer inhabited, and the monks first used its church, dedicated to St. Lawrence. The settlement was demolished and the monastery was rebuilt in the second half of the 12th century . In 1382 the monastery received a further donation. Before the dissolution, the monastery buildings are said to have been in a ruinous condition. The church in the shape of a Latin cross , excavated in the 19th century , had seven or eight (according to the plan sketch in New) nave bays , a transept and a rectangular choir and several chapels . The enclosure was located to the south (right) of the church and probably essentially corresponded to the usual scheme. The monastery, whose income was estimated at £ 287 in 1535, was dissolved with the larger monasteries in 1538/1539 and given to Charles Brandon , the first Duke of Suffolk . It expired immediately. The later possessions Revesby Abbey and Revesby Estate (later also Revesby Abbey and owned by the Banks (see Joseph Banks ), Stanhope and Lee families ) have only taken over the name of the monastery.

Plant and buildings

Nothing has been preserved from the complex. The church tower of the parish church from the 19th century contains some fragments. The monastery complex is now an open pasture area. The location of the high altar has been marked in the area since 1890. Traces can be seen on aerial photographs.

literature

  • Anthony New: A guide to the Abbeys of England and Wales. Constable & Company, London 1985, ISBN 0-09-463520-X , p. 310 f., With a plan.
  • David Robinson (Ed.): The Cistercian Abbeys of Britain. Far from the Concourse of Men. BT Batsford Ltd., London 1998, ISBN 0-7134-8392-X .

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