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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 ...
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.
Whitegate and Marton is a civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, England. It contains 33 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. One of these, Vale Royal Abbey is listed at Grade II*, and the others are at Grade II. The parish is almost entirely rural, and most of the listed ...
Whitegate is a small village in Cheshire, England, near the towns of Northwich and Winsford. It is in the civil parish of Whitegate and Marton, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester. At its centre is an ancient Anglican church. Nearby Vale Royal Abbey was once the largest Cistercian abbey church in Britain. [citation needed]
The district took its name from Vale Royal Abbey, formerly one of the largest in England, which was situated near the village of Whitegate near the centre of the district. The name was suggested in 1972 by a joint committee of the previous district councils, on the basis of the historic use of the name for the general area of the new district.
A chapel has stood on this site of the present church since the founding of the Cistercian Abbey of Vale Royal in 1277. The Cistercian were known as the white monks and the name of the village at the gate of the abbey refers to this. [4] A reference is made in an act of 1542 (33 Hen. 8. c. 32) to a church at the White Gate of Vale Royal Abbey.
The early history of Cuddington and Sandiway is also closely associated with Vale Royal Abbey, at nearby Whitegate, once the largest Cistercian abbey church in Britain. Sandiway's most famous building is the "Round Tower Lodge" which was built in the early 19th century as the gatehouse to Vale Royal Abbey. The 18-foot high tower is said to have ...
Vale Royal Abbey is a former medieval Cistercian abbey and country house at Whitegate, within the ancient Forest of Mondrem. The abbey was founded in around 1270 by Lord Edward, later King Edward I. The original Darnhall site proved unsatisfactory, and the abbey soon moved a few miles north. Named Vale Royal to emphasise its royal connection ...