Basingwerk Abbey - Abaty Dinas Basing

Basingwerk Abbey (Welsh: Abaty Dinas Basing) is the ruin of an abbey near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, in the care of Cadw (Welsh Heritage).


Basingwerk Abbey ruinsThe abbey was founded in 1132 by Ranulph de Gernon, 2nd Earl of Chester, who brought Benedictine monks from Savigny Abbey in southern Normandy. In 1147, the abbey became part of the Cistercian Order and therefore a daughter house of Buildwas Abbey in Shropshire. In 1157, the abbey was given the manor of Glossop by King Henry II. The hilltop Monks' Road and the Abbot's Chair in Glossop is a reminder of the monks' efforts to administer their possession. Earlier on, they had received the manor of West Kirby from the Earls of Chester. In the 13th century, the abbey was under the patronage of Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd, and his son Dafydd ap Llywelyn gave St Winefride's Well to the abbey. The monks harnessed the power of the Holywell stream to run a corn mill and to treat the wool from their sheep. In 1536, abbey life came to an end with the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Its dissolution was made lawful by the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act.

Two centuries earlier a Welsh seer, Robin Ddu ("Robin the Dark") said the roof on the refectory would do very nicely on a little church under Moel Famau. It did. When the abbey was sold, the roof went to Cilcain church and the amazing Jesse window went to the church at Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch.

Today, the abbey ruin is part of Greenfield Valley Heritage Park.

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[geoffdoor]

great music sounds like michael jackson touch my bad mutha f**king self 

[owainmeurig]

@geoffdoor It does a bit, not sure why I used it actually.

[geoffdoor]

@owainmeurig have you heard if the abbey is haunted or not -

[owainmeurig]

@geoffdoor It's not.

[geoffdoor]

@owainmeurig no way only there's a few links on the internet that say different like a train is heard by the footpath and black figured monks have been sited this could blow everything out the water its good to photograph though in it the ABBEY

[owainmeurig]

@geoffdoor There's a few links on the internet that say the twin towers was an inside job and the freemasons are evil geniuses I don't believe a lot that's on the internet. If someone told me they saw a ghost trying to buy a newspaper I might believe them but it's always monks, nuns and ghost trains.