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This is a List of Cistercian monasteries (called abbeys) in Great Britain. The first Cistercian abbey in Great Britain was Waverley Abbey in Surrey , founded in 1128. In the next few years further abbeys were founded in other parts of Britain , notably Yorkshire and in Scotland and Wales .
Waverley Abbey was the first Cistercian abbey in England, [1] founded in 1128 by William Giffard, the Bishop of Winchester. Located about 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of Farnham, Surrey, it is situated on a flood-plain; surrounded by current and previous channels of the River Wey. It was damaged on more than one occasion by severe flooding ...
The first Cistercian abbey in Bohemia was founded in Sedlec near Kutná Hora in 1142. In the late 13th century and early 14th century, the Cistercian order played an essential role in the politics and diplomacy of the late Přemyslid and early Luxembourg state, as reflected in the Chronicon Aulae Regiae.
Rievaulx Abbey was the first Cistercian monastery in the north of England, [2] founded in 1132 by twelve monks from Clairvaux Abbey. [3] [4]Its remote location was well suited to the order's ideal of a strict life of prayer and self-sufficiency with little contact with the outside world.
The first Cistercian nunnery in the United States, founded by nuns from the Swiss Abbey of Frauenthal. Our Lady of Dallas Abbey: Common Observance 1958 Irving, Texas: Founded from the Cistercian monastery of Zirc in Hungary. Runs the Cistercian Preparatory School in Irving, TX Our Lady of the Redwoods Abbey: Nuns (Trappist) 1962
The first Cistercian Abbey was founded at Mellifont, County Louth in 1142. [2] St Malachy made arrangements that young aspirant Irish men who want to become Cistercians should be trained in St Bernard’s own monastery of Clairvaux or one of its daughter houses. [citation needed]
Melrose was the first Cistercian abbey in Scotland. [2] King David I wanted the new abbey to be built on the same site, but the Cistercians insisted that the land was not good enough for farming and selected the current site. It was said to have been built in ten years.
Terraced gardens at Kamp Abbey The church at Kamp Abbey Aerial view of the Kamp Appel and its gardens. Kamp Abbey (Kloster Kamp), also known as Altenkamp Abbey or Alt(en)feld Abbey (and in English formerly Camp Abbey) was the first Cistercian monastery founded in German territory, in the present town of Kamp-Lintfort in North Rhine-Westphalia.