Abbeys and Priories of Medieval Wales

296 Pages·2015·15.244 MB·English

by  Janet Burton, Karen Stober

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ABBEYS AND PRIORIES
OF MEDIEVAL WALES

ABBEYS AND PRIORIES
OF MEDIEVAL WALES

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JANET BURTON AND KAREN STÖBER
UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS
2015
© Janet Burton and Karen Stöber, 2015
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii
List of maps ix
List of images xi
Abbreviations xvii
Introduction 1
Foreword to Gazetteer 31
Gazetteer of Abbeys and Priories 32
Glossary 223
Bibliography 229
Index 243

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
T
HE ABBEYS AND PRIORIES of medieval Wales have always had their
admirers. Ever since the monastic period came to an abrupt end here in the
sixteenth century, local people and travellers alike have marvelled at the ruins
left behind by what had once been such a prominent presence in the Welsh
landscape. This book has grown out of the authors’ wish to make the monastic
heritage of Wales more visible, and more accessible to a wider audience.
In a larger context Abbeys and Priories of Medieval Wales is a part of the
Monastic Wales project (www.monasticwales.org) and our first thanks go to
those who were formative in the planning and on-going work in its develop-
ment, that is Nigel Callaghan of Technoleg Taliesin, Martin Crampin of the Centre
for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, and especially to
Julie Kerr. During the making of this book we have had much help, advice, and
encouragement from many people, whom we would like to thank here. We owe
a special thank you to Martin Crampin for supplying many photographs and
making the maps for Abbeys and Priories, and for all his tireless help and sup-
port throughout. Stuart Harrison has been most generous in allowing us access
to his library of images. We are also grateful to Jane Cartwright for the photo-
graph of the stained glass in Llanllugan, and to postgraduate students in the
School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology at University of Wales Trinity
Saint David (Lampeter Campus), who have engaged with the Monastic Wales
project over the years, and who have supplied images for us, especially Paul
Watkins, Therron Welstead, and Ian Bass. Thanks also to the commissioning staff
at the University of Wales Press, Angharad Watkins and Llion Wigley, the press’s
Production Manager Siân Chapman and the press’s Editor Dafydd Jones, for all
their help in the editorial process.
To Dani Leiva a big and special thank you for the lovely drawings he did
for us. We are also grateful to David Robinson for letting us use his monastic
ground plans, and to Cadw, the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical
Monuments of Wales, and the National Library of Wales for permission to repro-
duce their images.
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Finally, we are very grateful to the University of Wales Trinity Saint David for
generous financial support in the publication of this book, and to the Spanish
Ministry of Economy and Competivity who fund the research project ‘Auctoritas.
Església, Cultura i Poder, s.XII–XV’ (HAR2012-31484).
We would like to dedicate this book to four special people, and hope that
they will enjoy visiting some of the sites we describe.
To Megan & Isabelle
and
Lara & Sofia
Janet Burton (Lampeter)
Karen Stöber (Lleida)
January 2015
LIST OF MAPS
Map 1: The Benedictines and Cluniacs in Wales 8
Map 2: The Cistercians, Savigniacs and Premonstratensians in Wales 11
Map 3: The Regular Canons and Knights Hospitaller in Wales 14
Map 4: The Friars in Wales 16