Bardney Benedictine Monastery, Lincolnshire

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The monument includes the remains of Bardney Abbey, a Benedictine monastery traditionally founded in the late seventh century by King AEthelred and Queen Osthryd of Mercia. It was a prominent Anglo-Saxon establishment and pilgrimage centre where the relics of Osthryd’s uncle, St Oswald, King of Northumbria, were enshrined. After Osthryd’s death in AD 697 AEthelred retired to Bardney and in AD 704 is recorded as abbot. The monastery was destroyed by the Danes in the late ninth century, and in the early tenth century the relics of St Oswald were removed to Gloucester. After the Conquest the property was granted to King William’s nephew, Gilbert de Ghent, who in 1087 refounded the monastery as a dependent priory of the abbey of Charroux in France. Less than 30 years later it became an independent abbey with further gifts from Gilbert’s son Walter. In the late 14th century there were about 20 monks at Bardney, declining to 13 at … https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1008315