Forde Abbey

Daughter monasteries

Bindon Abbey ( 1149 ) Dunkeswell Abbey ( 1201)

Forde Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey in England. The monastery lay south-east of Chard in Thorncombe in Dorset.

History

After a founding trial in Brightley in Devon was in 1136 failed, donated Adelicia de Brioniis 1141 the manor of Thorncombe on the banks of the River Axe the Cistercian order. The monastery was a daughter house of Waverley Abbey, the first Cistercian settlement in England, from the filiation of Citeaux. From him the daughter of Bindon Abbey ups and Dunkeswell Abbey went out. The monastery flourished quickly; his third abbot, Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury, his successor John Devonius confessor of King John. During the last abbot, Thomas Chard, still led by restructuring measures, the monastery was dissolved in 1539. In the same year the Crown left the abbey a Richard Pollard for the sum of just over 49 pounds. In the next hundred years the abbey was used as a quarry. In 1649 it was sold to Edmund Prideaux, who later became Advocate General of Oliver Cromwell. This left the abbey transform into a residential estate. Among his heirs '' '' Forde gardens were created. 1815, the abbey to the philosopher Jeremy Bentham was leased. In 1846 it was sold to a merchant named Miles, who had forfeited much of. It was not until the later owner Bertram Evans began after 1863, the restoration of the abbey, which is inhabited by the family Roper since 1905.

Plant and buildings

Of the former monastery buildings different parts of the existing system are obtained, the Great Hall (former refectory? ), Part of the Mönchsdormitoriums, a wing of the cloister, the chapter house from the 12th century (now Chapel ) and the lower church (now partially restaurant). The remaining rooms are from nachklösterlicher time.