Sawtry Abbey
| Sawtry Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
| location |
 United Kingdom England Cambridgeshire
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| Coordinates: | 52 ° 25 '37 " N , 0 ° 14' 30" W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
237 |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1147 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1536 |
| Mother monastery | Warden Abbey |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
no |
Sawtry Abbey (also Saltrede; Saltereia) is a former Cistercian abbey around 3 km east-southeast of the village of Sawtry in Cambridgeshire in England around 1 km north of the B 1090 road to St. Ives and 13 km north of Huntingdon .
history
The monastery was founded in 1147 by Simon von Senlis, the Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, a descendant of William the Conqueror , as the first daughter of Warden Abbey , a daughter of Rievaulx Abbey from the affiliation of Clairvaux Primary Abbey . It never got any particular size or importance. Most of the monastery buildings were erected in the middle of the 12th century. The eastern part of the church was rebuilt until 1238. In 1536 the annual income of the abbey was estimated at 141 pounds and the monastery had only seven monks. The abbey and the smaller monasteries were dissolved in 1536. It later came to St. John's College in Cambridge .
Buildings and plant
The church and monastery buildings were removed by the beginning of the 19th century. The foundations were removed as road construction material around 1850. The plan of the monastery, which can still be seen from the earthen walls, was determined from 1907 to 1912. The church was in the north, the three-aisled nave had seven bays. The transept closed in the east with two side chapels, the choir was closed rectangular. The exam was in the south. The layout corresponded to what was customary in early Cistercian monasteries (lay wing with two-aisled, twelve-bay building on the west side of the cloister, refectory, kitchen and calefactorium in the south, sacristy, chapter house and monks' hall in the east, and south of it another two-aisled and five-bay hall). To the southwest of the cloister was a larger building that is identified as a guest house or hospice (plan sketch at New).
Varia
The monastery is named in an ancient verse:
- Ramsey the rich of gold and of fee,
- Thorney the bane of many a fair tree,
- Croyland the courteous of their meat and their drink,
- Spalding the gluttons as all men do think,
- Peterborough the proud as all men do say,
- Sawtry by the way that poor abbaye
- Gave more alms in one day than all they.
literature
- Anthony New: A guide to the Abbeys of England and Wales. Constable & Company, London 1985, ISBN 0-09-463520-X , pp. 336-337.