Flaxley Abbey
Flaxley Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in England, now a private residence, near the village of Flaxley in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. It is also the former seat of the Crawley-Boevey Baronets.
History
Flaxley Abbey was founded in 1148 by Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd Earl of Hereford. It was dissolved during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536-37 and its lands and manor were granted to Sir William Kingston.
King Henry III gave a grant to Flaxley Abbey to the woods, called Abbot's Woods in 1227.
King John's visits to Flaxley Abbey are recorded in the well-known Itinerary of King John.[1]
King Edward III, who paid frequent visits to Flaxley Abbey, granted to Flaxley Abbey income from the rents and profits of the lands of the forest Dean in 1353.[2]
Pope Celestine III and Pope Alexander III granted the monks of Flaxley Abbey special immunity from tithes.
It was purchased in 1642 by the London merchant, lawyer and philosopher James Boevey (1622–1696), with his half-brother William.[3] Later residents included Catherina Boevey, an inheritance from her short marriage to William Boevey, and the house passed to Thomas Crawley (later styled Crawley-Boevey) at her death in 1727.[4] The house was substantially rebuilt in the late eighteenth century to the designs of the architect Anthony Keck.[5]
Notable residents
Arthur William Crawley-Boevey, graduate of Balliol in 1866, Married Ann Phayre, daughter of Colonel Robert Phayre, in 1883. Service in India from 1868 to 1893. Author of The Cartulary and Historical Notes of the Cistercian Abbey of Flaxley (1887).[2]
Edward B. Crawley-Boevey, brother of Arthur William, illustrated The cartulary and historical notes of the Cistercian abbey of Flaxley.
Sybella Mary Crawley-Boevey, sister of Arthur William, author of Dene Forest Sketches (1888), Beyond Cloudland (1888) and Conscience Makes the Martyr (1894).
References
- ↑ The Itinerary of King John & the Rotuli Litterarum Patentium
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The cartulary and historical notes of the Cistercian abbey of Flaxley.
- ↑ Porter, M. H. "Boevey, James". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/70859. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ↑ 'Flaxley', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 138-150. Date accessed: 16 October 2010.
- ↑ http://www.parksandgardens.ac.uk/component/option,com_parksandgardens/task,site/id,1341/Itemid,/
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Coordinates: 51°50′10″N 02°27′07″W / 51.83611°N 2.45194°W