Remains of Sibton Abbey, etching by Henry Davy, 1827.
Sibton Abbey, an early Cistercian abbey located near Yoxford, Suffolk,[1][2] was founded about 1150 by William de Chesney, High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk.[3][4] A sister house of Warden Abbey, near Bedford, Bedfordshire, Sibton Abbey was the only Cistercian abbey in East Anglia. It was dissolved in 1536.
^'Sibton Abbey, in Suffolk', in W. Dugdale, ed. J. Caley, H. Ellis and B. Bandinel, Monasticon Anglicanum: A History of the Abbeys and Other Monasteries, etc. New edition, Volume V (James Bohn, London 1846), pp. 558-62 (Google).
^D. Knowles and R.N. Hadcock, "Medieval Religious Houses: England and Wales" (Longmans, Green, 1953), p. 115.
^J. Round, 'CXL. The Early Sheriffs of Norfolk', English Historical Review XXXV (1920), pp. 481-96 (Internet Archive).
^L.S. Harley, 'Medieval floor-tiles from Blythburgh', Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, XXXIII Part 3 (1972), pp. 276-79 (Suffolk Institute pdf).
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