Tintern Abbey

Tintern Abbey became based by way of Walter de Clare, Lord of Chepstow, on 9 May 1131. It is situated adjoining to the village of Tintern in Monmouthshire, at the Welsh financial institution of the River Wye, which at this factor paperwork the border among Monmouthshire in Wales and Gloucestershire in England. It become simplest the second Cistercian basis in Britain after Waverley Abbey, and the primary in Wales. The abbey fell into spoil after the Dissolution of the Monasteries inside the 16^th century. Its remains had been celebrated in poetry and portray from the 18th century onwards. In 1984 Cadw took over responsibility for the website online.

The present-day stays of Tintern are a mixture of constructing works protecting a 400-year period between 1136 and 1536. Very little stays of the primary homes; some sections of walling are incorporated into later homes and the two recessed cabinets for books at the east of the cloisters are from this period. The church of that point changed into smaller than the prevailing building and was slightly to the north.

During the 13th century the Abbey become more often than not rebuilt; first the cloisters and the domestic levels, then eventually the superb church between 1269 and 1301. The first mass inside the rebuilt presbytery become recorded to have taken place in 1288, and the building become consecrated in 1301, even though building work persevered for several many years. Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk, the then lord of Chepstow, became a beneficiant benefactor; his enormous venture become the rebuilding of the church.