Tarrant Cistercian Abbey
The Cistercian Abbey of Tarrant (also: Tarrant Crawford or Tarrant Kaines ) was a convent of the Cistercian women in Tarrant Crawford , Dorset in England from 1228 to 1539 .
history
After there had been an independent monastery southeast of Blandford Forum at the confluence of the Stour and Tarrant rivers since 1186, Richard Poore , important Bishop of Salisbury , who had been baptized in the abbey church , made it a Cistercian Convent of Our Lady and All Saints in 1228 and settled in 1237 buried there too. Queen Joan of England , who died in 1238, was also buried in Tarrant at her request. The abbey was one of only two Cistercian abbeys in England (the other was Marham ). It was dissolved and destroyed in 1539. Today only the former lay church of the monastery, the parish church of the Virgin Mary (with wall paintings from the 13th and 14th centuries) remains. Remnants of the monastery may have been built into the local Abbey Farm (Tarrant Crawford) .
Superiors (selection)
- 1228: Claricia
- Emelina
- 1240: Maud
- 1280: Isolda
- 1298: Elena
- 1351: Anne
- 1377: Clemence de Cernyngton
- 1402: Joan
- 1404: Avice
- -1535: Edith Coker
- Margaret Lynde
- 1535-1539: Margaret Russell
literature
- Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. 2. Protat, Mâcon 1939-1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995. Column 3122 (Tarrent ou Tarent, Tarrant).
- James Michael John Fletcher (1852-1940): Tarrant Crawford, and the Founder of Salisbury Cathedral (Bishop Poore) . Dorchester 1928.
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne , Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 925.
Web links
- Barn and outbuilding range, Tarrant Abbey Farm, Tarrant Crawford - North Dorset
- Tarrant Abbey House
- Newspaper article about the parish church of St Mary
- Page to the monastery in the Monastic Matrix of Ohio State University
- Regional historical site of Tarrant Kaines Monastery
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '53.2 " N , 2 ° 7' 20.2" W.