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After the abbey was dissolved the abbey church was completely demolished. The surrounding monastic buildings, already partially ruined, were then allowed to further disintegrate.<ref name=PS>[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=919643 Garendon Abbey] ''English Heritage: PastScape''</ref> |
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| ⚫ | [[Henry VIII of England|King Henry VIII]] sold the abbey to [[Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland]] for £2,356 5s 10d. The earl then constructed a house on the Abbey site, known as Garendon House. The house was owned by the Earls of Rutland until 1632 when it was given as part of a [[dowry]] for marriage of [[Katherine Villiers, Duchess of Buckingham|Lady Katherine Manners]] (daughter of the [[Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland|6th Earl of Rutland]]) and [[George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham]]. 1640 the estate was valued at £5,648 and was reported to contain 13,350 trees.<ref name=Hall/> |
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In 1684 the [[George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham|2nd Duke of Buckingham]] sold the house to Sir Ambrose Phillipps (a successful lawyer) for £28,000. Sir Ambrose and his son William did little to the house; his grandson, another [[Ambrose Phillipps]], inspired by his Grand Tour of France and Italy, however started to change the house and the former abbey estate. Beginning in 1734, Ambrose landscaped the surrounding parkland and built several Palladian follies, which still exist. Ambrose later began to redesign, extend and rebuilt Garendon House in the Palladian style, developing it into what would be known as [[Garendon Hall]]. The main front of the house was to be eleven-bays wide, with a central Corinthian portico topped by a triangular pediment. The work remained unfinished in 1737 when Ambrose died childless; it was completed by his brother Samuel, who inherited the estate.<ref name=Hall>[http://lh.matthewbeckett.com/houses/lh_leicestershire_garendonhall.html "Garendon Hall"], ''Lost Heritage''.</ref> |
In 1684 the [[George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham|2nd Duke of Buckingham]] sold the house to Sir Ambrose Phillipps (a successful lawyer) for £28,000. Sir Ambrose and his son William did little to the house; his grandson, another [[Ambrose Phillipps]], inspired by his Grand Tour of France and Italy, however started to change the house and the former abbey estate. Beginning in 1734, Ambrose landscaped the surrounding parkland and built several Palladian follies, which still exist. Ambrose later began to redesign, extend and rebuilt Garendon House in the Palladian style, developing it into what would be known as [[Garendon Hall]]. The main front of the house was to be eleven-bays wide, with a central Corinthian portico topped by a triangular pediment. The work remained unfinished in 1737 when Ambrose died childless; it was completed by his brother Samuel, who inherited the estate.<ref name=Hall>[http://lh.matthewbeckett.com/houses/lh_leicestershire_garendonhall.html "Garendon Hall"], ''Lost Heritage''.</ref> |
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Garendon Hall was itself demolished in July 1964.<ref name=PS/> |
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  Location within Leicestershire | |
| Monastery information | |
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| Order | Cistercian |
| Established | 1133 |
| Disestablished | 1536 |
| People | |
| Founder(s) | Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester |
| Site | |
| Location | Between Shepshed and Loughborough, in Leicestershire, England |
Garendon Abbey was a Cistercian abbey located between Shepshed and Loughborough, in Leicestershire, United Kingdom.
History
Gardendon was founded by Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, in 1133, and was probably a daughter house of Waverley Abbey in Surrey. Garendon was one of a number of relgious establishments founded or patronised by Robert. He endowed the abbey with 690 acres of land in Garendon, a Burgage tenement in Leicester and land at Dishley, Shepshed and Ringolthorpe.[1]
Within a century of foundation, the abbey gained lands at Burton on the Wolds, Eastwell, Ibstock, Stanton under Bardon and Welby, all in Leicestershire; land at Costock, Nottinghamshire; and at Heathcote, Derbyshire. Monastic granges were then developed near the abbey, and at Burton on the Wolds, Dishley, Goadby, Ibstock, Ringolthorpe, Stanton Under Bardon and Welby in Leicestershire; at Costock and Rempstone, Nottinghamshire; and in the Peak District, in Derbyshire. Through these granges the abbey conducted sheep farming "on a considerable scale".[1]
The abbey also gained two daughter houses, Biddlesden Abbey in Buckinghamshire, and Bordesley Abbey in Worcestershire.[1]
By the end of the 13th century, the abbey had fallen on hard times. The abbey had acquired debts of £120 and in 1295 the King had appointed a "special keeper" to administer the abbey's finance and deal with its debt problems.[1]
Despite the abbey's large endowments, its finances seem never to have recovered. In 1535 the abbey was recorded as having an annual income of £100. 18s. 10½d, and that "the large old monastery was partly ruinous". It was dissolved with the smaller monasteries (those with annual incomes of under £200) in 1536, with the abbot granted a pension of £30 a year.[1]
After Dissolution
After the abbey was dissolved the abbey church was completely demolished. The surrounding monastic buildings, already partially ruined, were then allowed to further disintegrate.[2]
King Henry VIII sold the abbey to Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland for £2,356 5s 10d. The earl then constructed a house on the Abbey site, known as Garendon House. The house was owned by the Earls of Rutland until 1632 when it was given as part of a dowry for marriage of Lady Katherine Manners (daughter of the 6th Earl of Rutland) and George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. 1640 the estate was valued at £5,648 and was reported to contain 13,350 trees.[3]
In 1684 the 2nd Duke of Buckingham sold the house to Sir Ambrose Phillipps (a successful lawyer) for £28,000. Sir Ambrose and his son William did little to the house; his grandson, another Ambrose Phillipps, inspired by his Grand Tour of France and Italy, however started to change the house and the former abbey estate. Beginning in 1734, Ambrose landscaped the surrounding parkland and built several Palladian follies, which still exist. Ambrose later began to redesign, extend and rebuilt Garendon House in the Palladian style, developing it into what would be known as Garendon Hall. The main front of the house was to be eleven-bays wide, with a central Corinthian portico topped by a triangular pediment. The work remained unfinished in 1737 when Ambrose died childless; it was completed by his brother Samuel, who inherited the estate.[3]
Garendon Hall was itself demolished in July 1964.[2]
Abbots of Gardendon Abbey
Robert, occurs 1144-5.
Geoffrey, occurs 1147.
Thurstan, occurs between 1155 and 1164. Died 1189.
William, elected 1189, resigned 1195.
Reynold, elected 1195.
Adam, resigned 1219.
William, resigned 1226.
Reynold, elected 1226, resigned 1234.
Andrew, elected 1234.
Simon, occurs 1251.
Robert, occurs 1275.
Roger, occurs before 1281.
Eustace, occurs 1290 and 1294.
John, occurs from 1299 to 1330.
Walter Seynt Croys, occurs 1340, resigned in, or shortly before, 1350.
John, occurs 1360.
Thomas of Lughtburgh, elected 1361.
John, occurs 1406.
Richard, occurs early 15th century.
John Scarburghe, occurs 1418.
John of London, occurs 1439.
John Clareborough, occurs 1487.
William Leycestre, occurs 1490.
Thomas, occurs 1513.
Thomas Siston, occurs 1535.
Randolph Arnold, last abbot.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f 'House of Cistercian monks: The abbey of Garendon', A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 2 (1954), pp. 5-7. Date accessed: 20 June 2013
- ^ a b Garendon Abbey English Heritage: PastScape
- ^ a b "Garendon Hall", Lost Heritage.
See Also
| Augustinian |   | |
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| Benedictine | ||
| Brothers of Penitence | ||
| Cistercian | ||
| Cluniac | ||
| Dominican | ||
| Franciscan | ||
| Knights Hospitaller | ||
| Knights Templar | ||
| Premonstratensian | ||
| Unknown or Independent | ||