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Thornton Abbey | History and historic 4k drone footage

historic 4k drone footage of Thornton abbey, founded in 1140, was one of Britain’s richest Augustinian abbeys by the late 13th century. It has the largest and most impressive surviving monastic gatehouse in Britain, built 1377–82. It was one of the few abbeys to be refounded after the Suppression of the Monasteries as a secular college for priests, but this in turn was closed in 1547. Sir Vincent Skinner later demolished most of the medieval buildings and erected an impressive house in about 1607, but this was dramatically lost within five years. After 1816 successive Lords Yarborough worked to protect, research and display the site. On 13 January 1139 William Le Gros (c 1110–1179), Count of Aumale in Normandy and Lord of Holderness in Yorkshire pledged to found a new Augustinian priory dedicated to St Mary. Augustinians were canons – priests who lived communally under the Rule of St Augustine, but who undertook pastoral duties at churches outside the abbey. Le Gros endowed Thornton (the first of his five foundations) with a generous income from churches and townships (villages and their associated lands), which was supplemented by gifts from other lords. Little is known of Thornton over the 120 years after its foundation. The 12 canons who arrived there from Kirkham Priory in north Yorkshire, precisely a year after Le Gros’s pledge, probably encountered a peninsula of marginal agricultural land overlooking the marshy valley of the Skitter Beck. This navigable tidal tributary of the Humber estuary proved central to the abbey’s economic life, for it facilitated regional and international trade The foundation of the abbey coincided with the start of a warm, dry century. Falling sea levels allowed religious houses in this low-lying region to expand the pastures that they owned through land reclamation Thornton grew quickly and was elevated to the status of an abbey in 1148. Tellingly, Le Gros chose to be buried here on his death in 1179. Thornton Abbey was suppressed on 12 December 1539, but none of the buildings can have been despoiled immediately, for Henry VIII and Catherine Howard stayed there early in October 1541 Two months later Henry selected Thornton, among a small group of elite religious houses that also included Westminster Abbey, as a college for training priests for service in the newly established Church of England. In 1547, however, the college was suppressed under Edward VI. for more information on this historic site please visit:- https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/v... https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/wh...