Tilty Abbey

Daughter monasteries

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Tilty Abbey ( Tilteia ) is a former Cistercian abbey around 5 km north- west of Great Dunmow in Essex in England and about 200 m north of the parish church of tilty, on a tributary of the River Chelmer.

History

The monastery was founded by Maurice fitz Geoffrey as a daughter house of Warden Abbey, the second daughter house of Rievaulx Abbey, from the filiation of primary Clairvaux Abbey in 1153. The monastery buildings to have been constructed under the second abbot Simon (ca. 1188-1214 ). 1215, the abbey was besieged by troops of King John Lackland; the subsequent reconstruction to have lasted five years. The monastery was involved in the wool trade to Italy. 1536 was drafted and passed to the family of the Marchioness of Dorset and Medeley. 1590 the family received Maynard the monastery, which made it break. Now part of the system of the Waring family.

Buildings and plant

The parish incorporates the former chapel doors from the 13th century and the choir from the 14th century. On the south side there is a brass plaque for the abbot de Takeley from the year 1475th From the monastery complex parts of the east wall of the west building are still visible. The remaining parts of the monastery are not obtained through the height of floor addition. The straight -contained, cross-shaped church corresponded with her siebenjochigen nave and chapter house neunjochigen the usual scheme of Cistercian monasteries, but the exam was in the north of the church.