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XXI.—The Cistercian Abbey of Stanley, Wiltshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2011

Harold Brakspear
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The site of the abbey of Stanley is a wide valley two and a half miles east of Chippenham, in Wiltshire. It is upon the south bank of a little river called the Marden, which rises on Calston Down some five miles to the east, and joins the Avon just above Oliippenham. Stanley owes its origin to one Drogo, a chamberlain of the Empress Maud, at whose instigation her son Henry, then Earl of Anjou, gave a place called Locwell (now Lockswell) in the manor of Chippenham in perpetual alms to Grod and St. Mary of Quarr, in the Isle of Wight, for the purpose of there founding a monastery.

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Archaeologia , Volume 60 , Issue 2 , 1907 , pp. 493 - 516
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1907

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page 493 note a Monasticon Anglicanum, (London, 1825), v. 563.Google Scholar

page 493 note b In Rev. Bowles, W., The Parochial History of Bremhill (London, 1828), 96Google Scholar, is the text of a grant, then in the possession of Edward Baynton, of a pasture near Lacock Bridge by the Empress Maud and her son to the abbey Sanctæ Mariæ de Drogonis Fonte, and on p. 95 another grant of a hide of land in Lamburn Sanctae Marise de Drownfont.

page 493 note c Monasticon Anglicanum, v. 563Google Scholar.

page 494 note a Janauschek, Leopold, Originum Gisterciensium Tornus I. (Vindobonee, 1877), 210.Google Scholar

page 494 note b Bodl. Lib., Digby MS. 11 (vide Bowles' Bremhill, 119): Hoc anno (1214) perfectus est aquæductus de Lokeswelle versus abbatiam de Stanley in Wilts a domino Thoma de Colestune abbate ejusdem domus.

page 494 note c Lacock Cartulary, f. 30b.

page 494 note d Digby MS. 11, f. 184. (Vide Bowles' Bremhill, 120.) 1247. Ingressus est conventus de Stanlegh novum monasterium.

page 494 note e Ibid. f. 187. 1266. Dedicata est ecclesia de Stanleye in Wiltschire a domino Waltero de Wyle tune Sarum episcopo.

page 494 note f Ibid. Eodem anno (1270) intravit conventus de Stanloye in Wiltes novum refectorium scilicet die beati Johannis Baptiste.

page 494 note g P. R. O. Chantry Certificates, 100, 2.

page 494 note h Patent Roll 28 Henry VIII., part 3, m. 6, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII. xii. pt. i. 143.

page 496 note a Leland's Itinerary (ed. 1744), ii. 27Google Scholar.

page 496 note b Wiltshire Collections (1862), 113, 114Google Scholar

page 496 note a The area of the precinct at Beaulieu was about 58 acres, Fountains 55 acres, and Boxley 23 acres.

page 501 note a Recently published by Mr. W. H. St. John Hope in the Sussex Arcæological Society's Collections, xlix. 76–81, with translations. Mr. Hope has since come across documentary evidence of similar destruction at Barking Abbey, Essex.

page 509 note a Didron, , Annales Archéologiques (1845), iii. 231.Google Scholar

page 510 note a The old English word “dorter,” meaning a sleeping place, was used invariably by mediaeval writers. It is derived from the old French dortour or dortoir, which comes from the Latin dormitorium. See A New English Dictionary, iii. 607, Dortour, Dorter.

page 511 note a The old English word “frater,” meaning a dining-hall, is at least as old as the thirteenth, century. It has nothing to do with frater, a brother, but is derived from the old French fraitur, which comes from the Latin refectorium. See A New English Dictionary, iv. 515, Frater. The modern word “refectory” was apparently never used before the Suppression.

page 512 note a A similar chamber between the kitchen and frater has recently been found at Tintern.

page 514 note a Lacock Cartulary, f. 30 b.