Wardon or Warden Abbey, Bedfordshire, was one of the senior Cistercian houses of England, founded about 1135 from Rievaulx Abbey.[1][2]
It is a Grade I listed building.
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Wardon or Warden Abbey, Bedfordshire, was one of the senior Cistercian houses of England, founded about 1135 from Rievaulx Abbey. It is a Grade I listed...
with the outside world. The abbey's patron, Walter Espec, also founded another Cistercian community, that of WardonAbbey in Bedfordshire, on unprofitable...
Cistercian abbey in the county. A colony of monks from WardonAbbey in Bedfordshire joined the new monastery, which was founded as an independent abbey. Due...
he had given up and become a Cistercian monk, first at WardonAbbey and then at Rievaulx Abbey. In 1148 he was elected to the abbacy of Melrose, a daughter...
Monastic houses in England include abbeys, priories and friaries, among other monastic religious houses. The sites are listed by modern (post-1974) county...
Hampshire; Tintern in Monmouth; Ford in Devon; Merevale in Warwickshire and Wardon in Bedfordshire. The tower was designed by Albert Herbert FRIBA, FSA (1875...
1226; died before October 1241. 1242 1244 Adam OCist Previously Abbot of WardonAbbey; elected bishop in 1242 and received possession of the temporalities...
arrival of the Cistercians in England. By 1135 he also founded Warden Abbey (Wardon) in Bedfordshire, a daughter house of Rievaulx. Walter Espec later became...
Aerodrome. The village grew up under the protection of the Cistercian Wardon or Warden Abbey nearby. The first mention of a post office in the village is in...
their land per baronium. Generally they were centered at a cathedral or abbey and not a castle and although some were expected to provide soldiers for...
compiled circa the eighth century at the Abbey of Corbie in Picardy. From there it eventually found its way to the Abbey of Reichenau, in southern Germany,...
of England. Roger was the son of William de Bussy, who held lands at Old Wardon in Bedfordshire and William's wife Hawise, the sister of Walter Espec. He...
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