Garendon Abbey

Daughter monasteries

Bordesley Abbey Biddlesden Abbey

Garendon Abbey ( Geroldonia ) is a former Cistercian abbey and about 3 km west of Loughborough in Leicestershire in England and 1.5 km north of the road A 512

History

The monastery was founded in 1133 by Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, known as le Bossu, probably founded as a daughter monastery of Waverley Abbey in Charnwood Forest and thus belonged to the filiation of Citeaux. It founded the daughter monasteries Bordesley Abbey (1138) and Biddlesden Abbey ( 1147 ). The monastery operation vastly, including in the Gran Gien of Rempstone and Swannington, sheep farming. The monastery buildings were erected in the 12th and 14th centuries. In 1219 the church was consecrated. The Holy Cross of Garendon was a pilgrimage destination in the 16th century. 1536 was the monastery, which was still one of 14 monks and whose annual income is rated 159 pounds, dissolved and transferred to the Earl of Rutland. Part of the monastery buildings were used in the construction of the house Garendon Hall, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, in 1684 sold it to the Phillipps de Lisle family. The mansion was rebuilt in 1742 and 1864 by EW Pugin. 1964, the house was demolished and its stones were used as building material for the M 1 motorway The plan of the plant has since been partially uncovered by excavations.

Buildings and plant

From Garendon Hall, only one input is obtained with a bell tower. The chapter house is made ​​visible through markings in the ground. Parts of the dormitory and the transept of the church were excavated, but filled in again. As far as recognizable, the monastery was a regular system after bernhardi American plan, with a cross-shaped, rectangular closed church in the north and in the south of the exam. The chapter house on the east side was a semi-circle is closed, the dormitory lay to the south of him. Garendon Hall stood on the site of the western wing lay brothers.