Sawley Abbey / Sawlaye

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Scene Description: "Cistercian Abbey, founded 1147, dissolved 1536. Now ruinous. [...] the lower courses of the chancel, widened and lengthened in the early C16th by adding aisles, remain." [Historic England [cf. FontNotes]]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2010 by John Armagh [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SawleyAbbey.jpg] [accessed 19 September 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22351SAW

Church/Chapel: Abbey Church [in ruins]

Church Location: Sawley, Clitheroe BB7 4NH, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Lancashire, North West

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A59, 6-8 km NW of Clitheroe, 245-30 NW of Blackburn

Historical Region: formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Late Norman

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No individual entry found for this Sawley in the Domesday survey. The entry for the Cistercian abbey here in the Victoria County History (York, vol. 3, 1974) notes: "Sawley Abbey was founded by William Percy II, son of Alan Percy the Great [...] on 6 January 1147-8, [...] when Abbot Benedict with twelve monks and ten conversi came from Newminster." It was dissolved in 1537, its last abbot hanged for participating the Pilgrimage of Grace. The entry for this abbey in Historic England [Listing NGR: SD7765246433] notes: "Cistercian Abbey, founded 1147, dissolved 1536. Now ruinous. [...] the lower courses of the chancel, widened and lengthened in the early C16th by adding aisles, remain." [NB: we have no information on the font of the mid-12th century church here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.9134, -2.3418

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 54′ 48.24″ N, 2° 20′ 30.48″ W

UTM: 30U 543234 5974087

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-09-19 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.