Cockersand Abbey
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 The chapter house |
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| Location: | Thurnham, Lancashire |
| Coordinates: | 53°58′37″N 2°52′30″W / 53.977°N 2.875°WCoordinates: 53°58′37″N 2°52′30″W / 53.977°N 2.875°W |
| Official name: Cockersand Premonstratensian Abbey | |
| Designated: | 13 January, 1915 [1] |
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Listed Building – Grade I
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| Official name: The Chapter House, Cockersand Abbey | |
| Designated: | 02 May, 1968 [2] |
 Location of Cockersand Abbey in Lancashire
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Cockersand Abbey is a former abbey near Cockerham in the City of Lancaster district of Lancashire, England. It was founded before 1184 as the Hospital of St Mary on the marsh belonging to Leicester Abbey. It was refounded as a Premonstratensian priory and subsequently elevated to an abbey in 1192. It also continued as a hospital.[3]
The abbey was dissolved in 1539 and acquired by a John Kitchen. The site is now adjacent to a farm house and the only significant relic is the still intact, vaulted chapter house which was built in 1230 and used as a family mausoleum by the Daltons of Thurnham Hall during the 18th and 19th centuries.[4] There are some scrappy remains of the church adjacent. A tradition that the medieval choir stalls in the nearby Lancaster Priory originated from here has been discredited.[citation needed]
The chapter house is a Grade I listed building and Scheduled Ancient Monument. In 2007 English Heritage made an £80,000 grant to the owner to help preserve the building.[4] There is no public access to the chapter house.
Two Roman silver statuettes were discovered on Cockersand Moss near the abbey site in 1718, possibly indicating the presence of a Romano-British shrine nearby.[5]
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Engraving of the chapter house at Cockersand Abbey
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The Lancashire Coastal Way passes the site of the abbey
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Surviving fragment of a wall
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[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Cockersand Premonstratensian Abbey (1018919). National Heritage List for England. English Heritage.
- ^ The Chapter House, Cockersand Abbey (1362525). National Heritage List for England. English Heritage.
- ^ a b Farrer & Brownbill (1908), pp. 154-9
- ^ a b "Ancient abbey is saved by grant". BBC News. 2007-06-21. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/6226466.stm. Retrieved 2008-11-21.
- ^ Cockersand Moss, Roman Britain.org.
[edit] Sources
- Anthony New. A Guide to the Abbeys of England And Wales, pp. 116–117. Constable.
- Farrer, William; Brownbill, J., eds. (1908), "A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 2", Victoria County History, http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924088434547, retrieved 27 January 2012
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