Whalley Abbey

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Whalley Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey in England. The remains of the monastery are located on the western edge of Whalley between Blackburn and Clitheroe in the county of Lancashire in Ribbletal the river Calder.

History

The monastery was founded in 1172 by John FitzRichard, the Constable of Chester and Baron of Halton, in Stanlow or Stanlaw (53 ° 17 ' N, 2 ° 52 ' W ), now a part of Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, donated. It was a daughter house of Combermere Abbey, of the Congregation of Savigny Abbey, with which this had joined the Cistercian Order in the filiation of Clairvaux Primary Abbey, in 1147. Because of the risk of flooding in the regions near the coast Stanlow, the monastery was laid in 1296 by Whalley, where Stanlow Abbey was wealthy. In Stanlow be residual between the Manchester Ship Canal and the Merseyästuar have received. In Whalley, the monks initially purchased the old administrative building. With Sawley Abbey, there were conflicts that arose from the proximity of the two systems. 1535, the annual income of the abbey was valued at 321 pounds. The last abbot, John Paslew, became involved in the Pilgrimage of Grace Church against the policy of King Henry VIII and was then executed with two monks. After the sequestration of the monastery by the crown in 1537 it was sold in 1545 to Richard Assheton and John Braddyll and the abbot's house has been converted into an Elizabethan manor house. Towards the end of the 17th century fell into the plant. In 1836 it was sold and then restored in the Gothic Revival style. Since 1923, the Church of England ( Diocese of Bradford) is the owner of most of the plant, which uses it as a " Retreat and Conference House", while another part is owned by the Catholic Diocese of Liverpool.

Plant and buildings

The monastery church in Whalley was built from 1330 to 1388. She was a plant in the form of a Latin cross with probably originally eight nave Jochen, three-aisled north and south transept zweischiffigem and rectangular choir, probably dealing with. The walls of the church are marked in the ground. The exam was to the south (right) of the church, the chapter house, of which only the foundations remain, was octagonal, such as in York Minster or in Dore Abbey and through a vestibule separated from the exam. The Konversentrakt is a Catholic parish center today. The conference center occupies the space east of the former Abtshauses. To the north is the inner gatehouse dating from around 1480th Also the outer gatehouse of the 14th century has survived.