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Description: | Augustinian Monastery founded as a priory in 1139 by William Le Gros, and raised to the status of abbey in 1148. After its suppression in 1539, Henry VIII refounded the abbey as a college of secular priests and a school for fourteen boys, re-using buildings of the former monastery. This college was supressed by Edward VI in 1547 and demolished by Sir Vincent Skinner in 1610. Out of the remains, Skinner built a stately house which subsequently collapsed. The site of this house lies within the inner precinct. The best preserved standing remains of the abbey are of its gatehouse, (see TA11NW14). The earliest visible remains are of the vaulted undercroft of the east cloister range which date to the early 13th century. These remains indicate a range of small rooms, one of which has been interpreted as the warming house. North of the undercroft are the late 13th century remains of the parlour whilst the partially standing chapter house dates to between 1282 and 1308. The north cloister range comprised the abbey church. The surviving foundations indicate a late 13th century building with early 14th century alterations. The early 14th century also saw the building of two new cloister ranges, the west and south, begun in 1322-3. The remains from this phase include undercrofts used for storage, lay-brothers' accommodation, the monks' frater and the lodgings of the earlier abbots. Additional earthwork remains at the abbey include a moat and two separate groups of fishponds. Documentary evidence also points to the existence at Thornton Abbey of barns, granaries, a brewhouse and bakehouse, and extensive guesthouse and possibly a mill. Many of these structures are thought to survive as buried remains in the inner and outer precincts of the abbey. Scheduled. | Subjects: | Lay Brothers Range Religious Ritual And Funerary Domestic Monastic Dwelling Undercroft Cloister Brewhouse Moat Agriculture And Subsistence Augustinian Monastery Fishpond Warming House Bakehouse Refectory Abbey School Guest House Chapter House Country House Commercial Industrial Barn Granary Education Priory College Of Secular Priests Watermill Water Supply And Drainage Church | Source: | English Heritage - Viewfinder | Creator: | National Monuments Record | Identifier: | http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk... | Language: | en | Go to resource |
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