Roche Abbey

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Roche Abbey ( Rupes ) is a former Cistercian abbey and in Maltby in South Yorkshire in England in the formed from the stream Maltby Beck rocky valley, approximately 11 km east of Rotherham and 15 km north-northeast of Worksop.

History

The monastery was founded in 1147 jointly by Richard de Busli, Lord of Maltby, and Richard fitzTurgis, Lord of Hooten, as a daughter house of Newminster Abbey in Northumberland, a daughter house of Fountains Abbey, which came from even the filiation of primary Clairvaux Abbey, donated. It was dissolved in 1538, when it was still one of 18 monks, and came to William Ramsden and Thomas Vavasour. This was followed by an extensive demolition. In the 18th century the monastery area of Capability Brown at the instigation of the fourth Earl of Scarborough has been re-modeled; thereby made ​​more crashes. Today the ruins is managed by English Heritage.

Buildings and plant

From the church erected around 1170, only the ruins of the East Side of the transepts are well preserved, the pillars of the nave only at low altitude, however, have been preserved parts of the original paving. The layout of the system is well developed and visible in the terrain. The three-nave church with a nave to eight yokes, a transept with two side chapels to the east of each wing and a rectangular closed choir was in the north of the plant, the regular exam south of it, with the refectory and another room until about the Maltby Beck extended south of this, the hospitals, the abbot's house and the Abtsküche were. The church was built in Gothic style developed. Get further the gatehouse.