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© Mr Keith Walker
IoE Number:
183470
Location:
SAWLEY ABBEY RUINS,
SAWLEY, RIBBLE VALLEY, LANCASHIRE
Photographer:
Mr Keith Walker
Date Photographed:
15 October 2003
Date listed:
16 November 1954
Date of last amendment:
16 November 1954
Grade
I
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SD 74 SE SAWLEY
SD 776 464
3/151 Sawley Abbey Ruins
16.11.1954
GV I
Cistercian Abbey, founded 1147, dissolved 1536. Now ruinous. Rubble with
some sandstone dressings remaining. The walls of the transepts, with
3 square east chapels on each side, and of the very small nave (possibly
shortened in the early C16th), survive to various heights, the maximum
approximately 10 metres. Only the lower courses of the chancel, widened
and lengthened in the early C16th by adding aisles, remain. Only
foundation or low walls of the conventual buildings survive. These
include the chapter house, undercroft of the dorter, the rere-dorter, and,
on the south side, the frater. On the west side of the cloister were the
dorter and frater of the lay bretheren, later converted in part into
Abbot's lodgings. At the north end of the west range is a fireplace
with segmental arch and bread oven, possibly post-reformation. Scheduled
Ancient Monument. Harland, J. Historical Account of the Cistercian Abbey
of Sawley, 1853.