Waverley Abbey

Daughter monasteries

Waverley Abbey ( Waverleia ) is a former Cistercian abbey approximately 3 km southeast of Farnham in Surrey, England, south of the road A 3001 by Elstead, in a bend of the River Wey.

History

The monastery was founded by William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester, in 1128 as the first Cistercian monastery in England and the British Isles, donated. It was a daughter house of the monastery L' Aumône in France and thus belonged to the filiation of Citeaux. Among the benefactors of the monastery belonged to the Queen Adelaide of Leuven, King Stephen and Henry of Blois, the younger brother of King Stephen. 1187 was one of the monastery 70 monks and 120 lay brothers. The original building was completed in 1201. A reconstruction of the plant took place during the 13th century: From 1203 to 1278 a larger church and a new cloister were built. The kings of King John and Henry III. visited in 1208 and 1225 the monastery. Because of the danger of flooding, the plant was set higher by almost 2 m until the 15th century. 1536 was the dissolution of the monastery, which was inhabited by 13 monks nurmehr and whose annual income amounted to 174 pounds, and was transferred to Sir William Fitzwilliam, the later Earl of Southampton. About 300 m north of the monastery called the Waverley mansion was built in Georgian - Palladian style after earlier a considerable portion of the stones for Sir William More's mansion Loseley Park (built 1562-1568 ) had been used as early as 1725. More crashes occurred from 1771 to 1786. From 1899 to 1902 extensive excavations took place, but the wall remains were then filled in again. As a result, the plant was transferred to state ownership; it is managed by English Heritage.

Buildings and plant

Get the cellars are among the lay refectory and the outer walls of the village in the south Mönchsdormitoriums with three large lancet windows. From the north located cruciform church with ambulatory and zehnjochigen nave parts of the north, south and west walls are preserved. The exam was south of the church with chapter house in the east, to the chapter house then a preserved barrel vaulted smaller space, to the south of it a large Mönchsdormitorium, monks and lay refectory on the south side, and another yard in the west where lay the guest house, south of it sold the hospital of the laity, while the hospital of the monks was moved away to the east from the cloister. Behind him lay the abbot's house. The brewery was in the far west.