Sibton Abbey
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Sibton Abbey ( Sibetona ) is a former Cistercian abbey in Peasenhall approximately 7 kilometers north- west of Saxmundham in Suffolk in England and about 300 m north of the road A 1120. It was the only Cistercian monastery in East Anglia.
History
The monastery was founded in 1150 by William de Chesney (also under the name of William fitz Robert known) as a daughter house of Warden Abbey, the second daughter house of Rievaulx Abbey, from the filiation of Clairvaux Abbey Primary, donated. The building history is not documented. The number of monks and lay brothers rose in the 13th century greatly. 1536 was the wealthy in Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Norwich monastery, that was not liked by his fortune among the first wave of the dissolution of the monasteries dissolved and sold by Abbot William Flatbury to the Duke of Norfolk. Now part of the system of the Scrivener family.
Buildings and plant
From the monastery, only small remnants have received the permit reconstruction incomplete. However, the system seems to have substantially complied with the Cistercian monasteries ordinary. The church, of which only the south wall of the south aisle is preserved to a height of about 4.50 m, the exam was in the north, south. The refectory was parallel to the southern cloister wing and not, as usually at right angles to it. Its walls are still at a considerable height and can be seen round window. At the east end is a large round arch. Lay between the lay brothers in the west wing and the cloister - as in monasteries of filiation of Clairvaux not uncommon - (see Kloster Eberbach; Arnsburg Abbey, Stanley Abbey Cleeve Abbey ) a monastery alley.