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Vale Royal Abbey is a former medieval abbey and later country house in Whitegate, England. The precise location and boundaries of the abbey are difficult to determine in today's landscape. The original building was founded c. 1270 by the Lord Edward, later Edward I, for Cistercian monks. Edward had supposedly taken a vow during a rough sea ...
The central bay contains a porch above which are the arms of Vale Royal Abbey. [2] Stables, Vale Royal Abbey Arms: 1818 The stables were extended later in the 19th century. They are constructed in sandstone with a hipped slate roof.
Vale Royal Abbey is a medieval abbey, and later a country house, located in Whitegate, between Northwich and Winsford in Cheshire, England. During its 278-year period of operation, it had at least 21 abbots (possibly 22). The abbey was founded in 1270 by Prince Edward for monks of the austere Cistercian order.
Vale Royal Great House, the former seat of the Barons Delamere. Baron Delamere , of Vale Royal in the County Palatine of Chester , is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . [ 1 ] It was created on 17 July 1821 for Thomas Cholmondeley , a former Member of Parliament for Cheshire .
This consists of a cross, a shaft, and a base that was assembled in the 19th century from sandstone taken from the demolished Vale Royal Abbey. The base is probably from the 14th century, the shaft from the 17th century, and the top from the 15th century. The cross head has niches containing statues of the Crucifixion and saints.
A chronicle of Vale Royal Abbey—probably written in the 1330s—states that the early abbots were under almost continual assault from a disgruntled populace. [4] Abbot Walter spent much of his tenure defending the rights and prerogatives of his house (even, in 1302, securing the rights to all the dead wood on the ground within Peak Forest [5] and at the same time petitioning parliament for ...
Vale Royal Abbey had been founded on its present site by King Edward I in 1277. [1] Although intended to be the biggest and grandest Cistercian church in Christian Europe, [2] building work was very much delayed (Edward had vowed to found the house in 1263, but recurring political crises, his own crusade, and the Second Barons' War prevented any work whatsoever taking place at least until 1270 ...
John Chaumpeneys was the last Abbot of Darnhall Abbey and first Abbot of Vale Royal Abbey, Cheshire, from around 1275 to circ 1289.. Chaumpeneys was the first Abbot of Vale Royal following its relocation from Darnhall, where he had been elected at Michaelmas in either 1274 or 1275.