Description

SD 74 SE SAWLEY

SD 776 464

3/151
16.11.1954

Sawley Abbey Ruins

GV I

Cistercian Abbey, founded 1147, dissolved 1536. Now ruinous. Rubble with
some sandstone dressings remaining. The walls of the transepts, with
3 square east chapels on each side, and of the very small nave (possibly
shortened in the early C16th), survive to various heights, the maximum
approximately 10 metres. Only the lower courses of the chancel, widened
and lengthened in the early C16th by adding aisles, remain. Only
foundation or low walls of the conventual buildings survive. These
include the chapter house, undercroft of the dorter, the rere-dorter, and,
on the south side, the frater. On the west side of the cloister were the
dorter and frater of the lay bretheren, later converted in part into
Abbot's lodgings. At the north end of the west range is a fireplace
with segmental arch and bread oven, possibly post-reformation. Scheduled
Ancient Monument. Harland, J. Historical Account of the Cistercian Abbey
of Sawley, 1853.

Listing NGR: SD7765246433

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Sawley Abbey at Wikipedia
• Sawley Abbey official website
• Wikidata Q2228344

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