 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm just sitting by the River Ribble in the village of sorely in Lancashire It's a really beautiful place down here in the river in the River Valley Nice bridge up there Reason we've come though to this village of sorely's because there is a ruined abbey here So we're gonna go and have a look around the ruins of sorely abbey. So we just come up to here got a pub here and We're about well we're four miles north Clevero the Lancashire town and which has a quite a nice castle and Which you can go and visit. So we've just driven up here today and here is the sign. So abbey 400 yards. So we're gonna walk in in this direction. We're gonna go and find the abbey. That looks like a nice Hub there to spread evil in We go on here the abbey shall very soon reveal itself. So the abbey we're going to look at today sorely abbey It's the sister shun abbey So it was the order of the sister shun monks. It was founded by William Deleysi in 1147 it lasted about 400 years So it had you know a good long life until the dissolution the abbey the monks Even rebelled and came back after that and kicked out. So they didn't leave without a fight Interestingly, it's rather interesting arch. Yeah, I'm not sure that if one's the entrance to the abbey, but the abbey itself It's just here on the other side This field so we'll go along and then we're gonna go and have a look around The ruins of the abbey. It's not a huge abbey like some of the ones we've been to at last abbey I did a Henry's ventures video that was Croxton abbey and stuff she and that's quite unusual because the road went right through the middle of the church Have a look on screen now. You can see that video. Um, so that was quite a bit different So that's why I enjoyed Andrew and abbey so much because they're all so different. Yeah, you never get to the same So here we go. Here's the entrance. Here is free to visit So nightly skates are locked up any other time you can just come and here we are here Is the abbey so we're gonna have a wander round and That would have been the church. I'll show you the church last I like to sort of build up to the church. That's the cloisters over there. We should walk for that in a minute I want to start by showing you this stack of ruins here. I think it's quite interesting section of ruins. So you come down here And it's a bit of a surprise but there's a huge fireplace here. So whether this was where They did the cooking whether it was the kitchen. I'm not entirely sure if you come into here There's a window from there and you have a look up there Quite a big chimney So let's go through this little doorway Here There's the abbey in front of us Go through. When I visit these abbeys, I do try and walk through. It's not always possible I try and walk through where an actual doorway would have been rather than, you know Just walking through walls and I like to try and picture the abbey as it would have been So if you imagine now we've been walking along the edge of the cloisters Cloisters would have been there and I sort of strolled around there at the church towering above them and Here we have all the, you know, the smaller buildings things like the refectory. The dormitory would have been over there We'll come on to that in a minute The chapter house would have also been one of the buildings off the cloisters Here this would have been the refectory. So the monks would have all sat around there eating their meals Now there's one bit round here. I find particularly fascinating. You sometimes, well, you nearly always get these at abbeys Sometimes they're more visible than others I shall take you round to it. Let's go round this This is quite an exciting part of the ruins of the abbey So here You can see these slabs These slabs are covering a drain. So the drain runs right under there Some some of the abbeys you can actually walk right through them and you actually can here so See this archway It's time to really get down and explore So I'm just gonna sit down here. Just excuse me a minute while I'm in So here we are, we are now in the drain and then I can Stand up. It's a bit easier now to walk in. So this section of drain You can actually walk in which I think is really quite fun. And these slabs are nice, I really like them So it's from walk through the drain So any waste from the toilets and then the other waste were all washed away down there and probably ended up in the River Ribble So it wouldn't have once been somewhere where, you know, you've got to walk through for fun, but that way Let's go through this. It's a bit easier to get out of that end. So we have just Walked through the drain off the abbey. So you can see where we've just been Now let's go and explore Towards the church. So The tallest ruins over there is what remains of the church And that's quite often but not always the case that the church has the tallest standing Ruins usually because the church was the strongest part of any abbey built But then there are some abbeys where there's nothing left of the church and all the outbuilding survive So an abbey like to say cleave abbey and some of it that immediately springs to mind Where there's nothing of the church, but quality outbuildings all these buildings are pretty much standing, you know, it's a full height So we come to here. This would have been a gateway into the South Transit We're going to go into here I think I wanted to show you. I mentioned the dormitory. Well one quite impressive survivor Is this here? This is the stairs up to the dormitory so From up here, it gives us a few of the rest of the abbey I don't like to you get some time to this kind of these abbeys. You'll see people climbing up there I don't approve of this but when it's an actual set of steps that you know was built to be climbed up Then to me, I don't see a problem. We're doing that The rest of the ruined abbey So this is the South Transit, that's the North Transit now the one really unusual thing about the church here The church itself is really quite small compared to the chance. So if we have a look here This area here is the name of the church So yes, it's one of the biggest surviving parts of the abbey, but you can it's a really quite a small Nave of a church So what it was a rather large chancel just the head. So let's go now through into the chancel You can see the chancel is quite a lot bigger so imagine this would have been huge big gothic arches above me Must have been a really impressive sight in here Before it was ruined you can see whether they've been columns and everything so for now walking in the chancel of the abbey Now just surrounded by cows and sheep It's very nice very nice peaceful little village. So, you know perfect place abbeys often and were you know sometimes Well, sir more friars tended to be in In town centers and city centers, but it's a very nice quiet peaceful location often when you think of some of the other bigger Cistercian abbeys like Tintin You know Tintin's in a similar location it's in a River valley the Y valley in Wales this one's here in the Ribble Valley, so I'm now in the North transit There's a couple of little chapels that on this one's interesting that it's actually got some Tiles still surviving so about this door here I'll show you a couple more things I quite like it here They've got a collection of bits that have come off the abbey over the years They're all there on the stone shell So if you come to the abbey you want to have a closer look at them I'm not doing that I'm not going to do that today so yeah What I'm going to do now because it's my favorite part of this abbey I'm going to do what I don't do I'm just walking through the wall now Come to this area here We have the church in front of us again What I'm thinking was we'll go back into the church As soon as it is the most important bit of the abbey So we're walking down that very short nave Must have been an amazing sight though down this short nave With this huge chancell in front of us It must have just been really impressive sight So I think what I'll do I shall leave the video here From the crossing in the middle of sorely abbey So I hope you enjoyed it Thank you very much for watching I'm now going to go up there to Pemble Hill I'm not going to make a video because it's a bit windy down here It's going to be really windy up there but I'm going to go up there And have a walk So thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment From sorely abbey Goodbye