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Bardney Abbey
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Bardney Abbey in Lincolnshire was a Benedictine monastery founded in 697 by King Æthelred of Mercia who was to become the first abbott. The monastery was destroyed during a Danish raid in 870. It was refounded in 1087 as a priory by Gilbert de Gaunt, Earl of Lincoln and regained status as an abbey in 1115.
In 1537, six of the monks were executed for their role in the Lincolnshire Rising and in the following year the property was granted to Sir Robert Tirwhit. He retained the abbott's lodging as a house and the cloister became a garden though both later became ruinous along with the remainder of the monastery.
Excavations in 1909-14 revealed the layout which can still be seen though nothing remains to any hieght. Some grave slabs and carved stone are preserved in Bardney parish church.
- Anthony New. 'A Guide to the Abbeys of England And Wales', p44-45. Constable.