Calder Abbey
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Calder Abbey in Cumbria was a Savigniac monastery founded in 1134 by Ranulph de Gernon, 2nd Earl of Chester, and moved to this site following a refoundation in 1142. It became Cistercian in 1148. It i
Calder Abbey today
Calder Abbey from the air, with north at left
The Monk's Bridge
Furness Abbey
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Furness Abbey, or St. Mary of Furness, is a former monastery located to the north of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. The abbey dates back to 1123 and was once the second-wealthiest and most power
Calder Abbey
…founded the abbey on 10 January 1134, and gave a site and a mill to the monks. It was a wooden building and occupied by twelve Savigniac monks from Furness Abbey under the abbot Gerold. Only four years later, in the midst of the political instability following the death of Henry I, David King of Scots sent…
The abbey in August 2007
Ruins of the abbey's former infirmary
View looking across the former guesthouse towards the Cemetery Gatehouse and main church building
The ruins of Furness Abbey seen from the south in the 1890s