Cymer Abbey

Daughter monasteries

No

Cymer Abbey (often in the spelling Cymmer Abbey, also Kemmer Abbey or Vanner; Chemerium; Welsh Kymer eng dyfyr ) probably derived from a combination of water, namely the Mawddach and the Wnion, a former Cistercian abbey is about 2 km north- west of Dolgellau near the village of Llanelltyd, in Gwynedd in north-west Wales on the road A 487

History

The monastery was founded in 1198 by Gruffydd ap Cynan and Maredudd, lord of Meirionydd, as a daughter house of Cwmhir Abbey and thus belonged to the filiation of Clairvaux Abbey Primary. There was always small and insignificant, but had a very large gilded Siberkelch with paten, which must have been hiding in the resolution be and was found in the 19th century and came into the Welsh National Museum in Cardiff. The monastery ran a stud farm that supplied horses to Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. 1388 were nurmehr five monks in the Abbey and in 1535 the annual income of 51 pounds was evaluated. Thus, the monastery fell into disrepair already the first resolution of the smaller monasteries in 1536.

Buildings and plant

From the abbey ruins just received. The three-nave church, came from the only part of the West (without presbytery and transept ) for execution, was a west tower in the 14th century. The nave of the church has ogival arches resting on octagonal columns. The well- built as a temporary east wall of the church has three lancet windows above which were probably three other lancet. The cloister lay to the south of the church, from the cloistered buildings were laid down in the West is not running. The entrance to the chapter house and the passage to the church can still be identified. The refectory was on the south side. The walk runs alongside him drainage channel is nachmittelalterlich. The nearby farmhouse holds parts of the old abbot or guest house.