Swineshead Abbey
| Swineshead Cistercian Abbey | |
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 The driveway to Abbey House, the mansion built in place of the monastery |
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| location |
 United Kingdom of England
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| Coordinates: | 52 ° 56 ′ 48 ″ N , 0 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
254 |
| founding year | 1147 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1536 |
| Mother monastery | Furness Abbey |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
no |
Swineshead Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey in England . The monastery was about a kilometer northeast of Swineshead and about 8 km west-southwest of Boston in the county of Lincolnshire , near The Wash Bay .
history
The convent, which belongs to the Congregation of Savigny , was founded in 1135 by Robert de Gresley as a daughter convent of Furness Abbey . In 1147 it joined the Cistercian Order with the Congregation of Savigny, in which it belonged to the filiation of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey . In its early days, the monastery seems to have been quite wealthy. It was the refuge of King John before 1216 after he lost the crown jewels while crossing The Wash Bay . In 1536 the monastery, estimated at an annual income of 167 pounds, was confiscated from the Crown. In 1550 it was bestowed on Lord Clinton. In 1607, a modest mansion (Swineshead Abbey or Abbey House) was built, which almost certainly features stones from the previous abbey.
Plant and buildings
Nothing has survived from the previous monastery.
literature
- Anthony New: A guide to the Abbeys of England and Wales. Constable & Company, London 1985, ISBN 0-09-463520-X , p. 369.
- Houses of Cistercian monks: The abbey of Swineshead. In: William Page (Ed.): A History of the County of Lincoln. Volume 2. Constable, London 1906, pp. 145-146, online , with incomplete absentee list.