Roche Abbey
| Roche Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
 Roche Abbey |
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| location |
 United Kingdom England South Yorkshire |
| Coordinates: | 53 ° 24 ′ 7 ″ N , 1 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
236 |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1147 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1538 |
| Mother monastery | Newminster Abbey |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
no |
Roche Abbey (Rupes) is a former Cistercian monk abbey in Maltby in South Yorkshire in England in the rocky valley formed by the Maltby Beck stream, about 11 km east of Rotherham and 15 km north-northeast of Worksop .
history
The monastery was in 1147 jointly by Richard de Busli, Lord of Maltby, and Richard fitzTurgis, Lord of Hooten, a daughter house of Newminster Abbey in Northumberland, a daughter house of Fountains Abbey , which even the filiation of the Branch Clairvaux , donated came from. It was disbanded in 1538, when it still numbered 18 monks, and passed to William Ramsden and Thomas Vavasour. This was followed by a major breakdown. in the 18th century the monastery area was remodeled by Capability Brown at the instigation of the fourth Earl of Scarborough; this resulted in further terminations. Today the ruin is looked after by English Heritage .
Buildings and plant
Of the church, which was built around 1170, only the ruins of the east side of the transepts are well preserved, the columns of the nave are only low, but parts of the original paving have been preserved. The layout of the facility is well developed and visible in the area. The three-aisled church with a nave of eight bays, a transept with two side chapels in the east of each wing and a rectangular closed choir was in the north of the complex, the regular enclosure south of it, with the refectory and another room extending over the Maltby Beck to the south of which lay the hospitals, the abbot's house and the abbot's kitchen. The church was built in a developed Gothic style. The gatehouse is still preserved.
literature
- Anthony New: A guide to the Abbeys of England and Wales. Constable & Company, London 1985, ISBN 0-09-463520-X , pp. 316-320.
