Bordesley Abbey

Daughter monasteries

Merevale Abbey ( 1148 ) Flaxley Abbey ( 1151 ) Stoneleigh Abbey ( 1155 )

Bordesley Abbey ( Borde Lega ) is a former Cistercian abbey and about 1 km north-northeast of Redditch in Worcestershire in England and 0.5 km east of the road A 441

History

The monastery was founded in 1138 by Waleran de Beaumont, Count of Meulan and Earl of Worcester, the daughter monastery of Garendon Abbey and again in 1141, donated by Queen Matilda, who claimed the land as their property and thus belonged to the filiation of Citeaux. It founded the monasteries Merevale daughter Abbey ( 1148 ), Flaxley Abbey ( 1151 ) and Stoneleigh Abbey ( 1155 predecessors founded 1138-1147 ). Although the monastery was regarded as a royal monastery, it was in the Middle Ages in trouble, but recovered in the 14th century. The monks operated metal processing and manufacturing of tiles. 1538, the monastery was dissolved and awarded as fief to Thomas Evans, but soon fell to the Lords Windsor. The buildings were soon canceled. Only the gatehouse and the St. Stephen's Chapel were still a long time, the latter. Till 1807th The land belonged to the 20th century the Lords Windsor, later the Earls of Portsmouth Today, the complex is located in a public park. The University of Reading leads the " Bordesley Abbey Project" by.

Buildings and plant

The regular system corresponded substantially to the Bernhardi niches plan with the cross-shaped, three-nave church in the north, rectangular closed choir, transept with three side chapels on both arms in the east, nave to seven yokes of the exam in the south of the church, the south transept in the cloister stepped in and this interrupted, a relatively large chapter house with six columns in the east, kitchen, calefactory and refectory in the south, the latter at right angles located to the cloister, and the guest house, probably in the area of the former lay brothers wing, in the west. In particular, the eastern part of the church larger remains are preserved. Various excavated remains have fallen into the County Museum in Hartlebury Castle.