Bardney Abbey
Ruins · United Kingdom
- Abandoned
- 1538
- Founded
- 601
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 53.220, -0.334
Why it was abandoned
💥 War & expulsion
Detected automatically from the text: The monastery was supposedly destroyed during a Danish raid in 869.
History
Bardney Abbey in Lincolnshire, England, was a Benedictine monastery founded in 697 by King Æthelred of Mercia, who was to become the first abbot. The monastery was supposedly destroyed during a Danish raid in 869. In 1087, the site was refounded as a priory, by Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln, and it regained status as an abbey in 1115.