Tilty Abbey
| Tilty Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
| location |
 United Kingdom England Essex
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| Coordinates: | 51 ° 54 ′ 55 " N , 0 ° 19 ′ 31" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
346 |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1153 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1536 |
| Mother monastery | Warden Abbey |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
no |
Tilty Abbey (Tilteia) is a former Cistercian abbey about 5 km northwest of Great Dunmow in Essex in England and about 200 m north of the parish church of Tilty , on a tributary of the River Chelmer.
history
The monastery was founded in 1153 by Maurice Fitz Geoffrey as a subsidiary of Warden Abbey , the second subsidiary of Rievaulx Abbey , from the filiation of Clairvaux Primary Abbey . The monastery buildings are said to have been built under the second abbot Simon (approx. 1188 to 1214). In 1215 the abbey was besieged by the troops of King John Ohneland ; the subsequent reconstruction is said to have taken five years. The monastery was involved in the wool trade to Italy. In 1536 it was confiscated and given to the Marchioness family of Dorset and Medeley. In 1590 the Maynard family received the monastery and had it demolished. The facility now belongs to the Waring family.
Buildings and plant
The parish church includes the former gate chapel from the 13th century and its choir from the 14th century. On the south side there is a brass plaque for Abbot de Takeley from 1475. Parts of the east wall of the west building of the monastery are still visible. The remaining parts of the monastery have not been preserved above the level of the ground. The just closed, cross-shaped church with its seven-bay central nave and nine-bay chapter house corresponded to the usual scheme of Cistercian monasteries, but the enclosure was in the north of the church.
literature
- Anthony New: A guide to the Abbeys of England and Wales. Constable & Company, London 1985, ISBN 0-09-463520-X , pp. 389-390.