Swineshead Abbey

Daughter monasteries

No

Swineshead Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey in England. The monastery was about one kilometer northeast of Swineshead and 8 km west-southwest of Boston in the county of Lincolnshire, near the bay The Wash.

History

That the Congregation of Savigny belonging monastery was founded by Robert de Gresley as a daughter house of Furness Abbey in 1135. In 1147 it merged with the Congregation of Savigny the Cistercian order in which it belonged to the filiation of Clairvaux Abbey Primary. In its early days, the monastery seems to have been quite wealthy. It was before 1216, the refuge of King John, after he had lost the crown jewels in The Wash crossing the bay. In 1536 the monastery, which had been estimated at an annual income of 167 pounds was withdrawn by the Crown. In 1550 it was awarded to Lord Clinton. In 1607 a modest mansion ( Swineshead Abbey or Abbey House ) was built, which almost certainly has stones of the former abbey.

Plant and buildings

From the former convent has received nothing.