Whalley Abbey
| Whalley Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
 Whalley Abbey ruins |
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| location |
 United Kingdom England Whalley , Lancashire |
| Coordinates: | 53 ° 49 '12 " N , 2 ° 24' 38.6" W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
427 |
| founding year | 1296 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1537 |
| Mother monastery | Combermere Abbey |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
|
Daughter monasteries |
no |
Whalley Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey in England . The remains of the monastery are on the western edge of Whalley between Blackburn and Clitheroe in Lancashire in the Ribbletal on the River Calder .
history
The monastery was in 1172 by John FitzRichard , the Constable of Chester and Lord of Halton, in Stanlow or Stanlaw (53 ° 17 'N, 2 ° 52' W), now a part of Ellesmere Port in the county of Cheshire , donated. It was a daughter monastery of Combermere Abbey from the congregation of Savigny Monastery , with which it had joined the Cistercian Order in 1147 in the filiation of the Clairvaux Monastery Abbey . Because of the danger of flooding in Stanlow, which is close to the coast, the monastery was moved to Whalley in 1296, where Stanlow monastery was wealthy. In Stanlow, small remains have survived between the Manchester Ship Canal and the estuary of the River Mersey . In Whalley, the monks first moved into the old rectorate building. Conflicts arose with Sawley Abbey resulting from the proximity of the two plants. In 1535 the annual income of the abbey was estimated at £ 321. The last abbot, John Paslew, was involved in the Pilgrimage of Grace against the ecclesiastical policies of King Henry VIII and was then executed with two monks. After the monastery was sequestrated by the Crown in 1537, it was sold to Richard Assheton and John Braddyll in 1545, and the abbot's house was converted into an Elizabethan mansion. The complex fell into disrepair towards the end of the 17th century. It was sold in 1836 and then restored in neo-Gothic style. Since 1923, the Diocese of Bradford of the Church of England has owned most of the complex, which it uses as a “Retreat and Conference House”, while another part is owned by the Catholic Diocese of Liverpool.
Plant and buildings
The Whalley Abbey Church was built between 1330 and 1388. It was a system in the form of a Latin cross with originally eight nave bays, a three-aisled north and two-aisled south transept and a rectangular choir, probably with access. The walls of the church are marked in the ground. The enclosure was south (right) of the church, the chapter house, of which only the foundation walls have been preserved, was octagonal like z. B. in York Minster or in Dore Abbey and separated from the cloister by an anteroom. The Konversentrakt is now a Catholic parish center. The conference center occupies the space east of the former abbot's house. To the north of this is the inner gatehouse from around 1480. The outer gatehouse from the 14th century has also been preserved.
literature
- Anthony New: A guide to the Abbeys of England and Wales. Constable & Company, London 1985, ISBN 0-09-463520-X , pp. 442-445, with a plan of the plant and Fig.
