HER 1732 - Waverley Abbey: the first Cistercian abbey in Britain

Scheduled Monument
Waverley Abbey, situated on the flood plain to the north of the River Wey. Cistercian Abbey founded 1128 and dissolved 1536 to which a hospital was added in the 14th century. It was the first Cistercian house to be established in Britain. The Abbey survives as the ruins of the monastic buildings surrounded by an undisturbed monastic precinct comprising earthwork and buried remains, bordered to the south and east by the River Wey and to the north by the remains of the precinct wall. The ruins include the lay brothers' frater, part of the monks' dorter, the parlour, the chapter house and fragments of the nave, presbytery, and north and south transepts of the church. Surrounding these remains are the buried foundations of the rest of the monastic complex. Ranged around the cloisters, the chapter house and parlour are to the east and extend through to the infirmary, the monks' dorter, frater and reredorter are to the south and the lay brothers' accommodation and guest house Excavated by Surrey Archaeological Society 1890-1903. Scheduled monument 23003

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