Revesby Abbey
Daughter monasteries
Revesby Abbey was a Cistercian abbey and in England. The monastery was in Revesby in Lincolnshire, on the northern edge of the West Fen and 1 km south of the present location Revesby and the road A 155
History
The abbey was in 1143, founded by William de Roumare, the Earl of Lincoln, who joined later as a monk in the monastery, the fourth daughter house of Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire from the filiation of primary Clairvaux Abbey and led by Aelred of Rievaulx, later abbot Rievaulx, populated by Rievaulx from. Revesby Abbey was the mother monastery of Cleeve Abbey ( Vallis Florida) in Somerset. In Revesby there was already a no longer inhabited earlier settlement, the church dedicated to Saint Lawrence used the monks first. The settlement was broken off, and in the second half of the 12th century, the monastery was built. In 1382, the monastery received a further donation. Before the dissolution of the monastery buildings are said to have been found already in ruinous condition. The excavated in the 19th century church in the form of a Latin cross had seven or eight ( so the plan sketch at New ) Langhausjoche, a transept and a rectangular choir and several chapels. The exam was to the south (right) of the church and probably corresponded essentially to the usual scheme. The monastery, whose income was in 1535 estimated at 287 pounds, was resolved with the larger monasteries 1538/1539 and Charles Brandon, the first Duke of Suffolk passed. It fell immediately. The later possessions Revesby Revesby Abbey and Estate (later also Revesby Abbey and owned by the families Banks (see Joseph Banks ), Stanhope and Lee) have only adopted the name of the monastery.
Plant and buildings
Nothing remains of the plant. Some fragments involves the steeple of the parish church from the 19th century. The monastery is now an open pasture land. The position of the high altar is marked in the field since 1890. Marks are visible on aerial photographs.