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	Margam Abbey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Margam Abbey was a Cistercian monastery, located at Margam which is now a suburb of modern Port Talbot.
		It was founded in 1147 as a daughter house of Clairvaux by Robert, Earl of Gloucester and was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
		The abbey was dissolved by King Henry VIII of England in 1536 and sold to Sir Rice Mansel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margam_Abbey (235 words)

	Margam Abbey
		Margam Abbey was a Cistercian monastery, located near the present-day town of Port Talbot.
		Although dissolved by King Henry VIII of England, the abbey church was later restored and is today in use as a parish church.
		The ruins of other abbey buildings, including the twelve-sided chapter house[?], dating from the 13th century, stand within a 840-acre country park, close to Margam Castle[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Margam_Abbey.html (110 words)

	Margam Abbey -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Margam Abbey was a (Member of an order of monks noted for austerity and a vow of silence) Cistercian (The residence of a religious community) monastery, located near the present-day town of (Click link for more info and facts about Port Talbot) Port Talbot.
		The (A monastery ruled by an abbot) abbey was (Click link for more info and facts about dissolved) dissolved by King (Click link for more info and facts about Henry VIII of England) Henry VIII of England in 1536 and sold to Sir Rice Mansel.
		Subsequently restored, the (A monastery ruled by an abbot) abbey church is today is in use as a (Click link for more info and facts about parish church) parish church.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Ma/Margam_Abbey.htm (243 words)

	Cambuskenneth Abbey -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Although the abbey is largely disused, the neighbouring village of Cambuskenneth continues to be inhabited.
		The abbey fell into disuse during the Scottish (Improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs) Reformation.
		The abbey was placed under the jurisdiction of the military governor of Stirling Castle, who had much of the stonework removed and used in construction projects in the castle.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/C/Ca/Cambuskenneth_Abbey.htm (480 words)

	town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		With the Dissolution of the monasteries during the reign of Henry VIII, the abbey was acquired by Sir Rice Mansel, whose tomb is contained in the chapel within the church, and later, by his descendants, the Talbot family, who built Margam Castle nearby.
		On the hilltop above Margam Abbey is the stone ruin of Capel Mair, built in the fifteenth century.
		Margam Terrace, which used to be behind Station Road, has gone, to be replaced by the open-air market, but the neat terraces of Gower Street remain, as do those of Rice Street and many others.
	www.aberavon-beach.co.uk /town.htm (3350 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Abbey Church lies in a place of peace and tranquility which speaks of the prescence of god and capturing the History of Celtic Christianity.
		The Abbey Church of Margam, dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, dates from the second half of the twelfth century, but there is reason to believe that its site has been hallowed by more than a thousand years of worship.
		Margam is the only report that mentions the discovery of Mordred's tomb and is, on that account, suspect.
	atschool.eduweb.co.uk /dyffryn/pupils/bottomhome.htm (1023 words)

	New Page 2
		Three walks at Margam, Walk 1 is 4 and and Walk 2 is 3 miles, close to the M4, but with great views, much history and some interesting geology.
		Margam Abbey church is worth wandering round as is the Margam Stones museum although there is a charge for the museum.
		From here there are extensive views with Margam Abbey and Castle (which replaced the old house) close by and the Bristol Channel beyond.
	www.glamorganwalks.com /margam.htm (2869 words)

	Notes: John LOVELUCK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Margam Estate accounts for 1788-9 record that John L. held land in Kenfig and a cot and garden in Margam.
		This story comes from Thomas Talbot of Talbots Laycock Abbey, Wiltshire, an MP in the English Parliament who in the 1700s inherited Margam Abbey and lands in Wales.
		Margam was to become a gentleman's park, with an orangery which became famous all over Britain.
	perso.numericable.fr /~lovjames/family-history/loveluck/loveluck-data/notes/n00000kh.htm (1034 words)

	Margam Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Their timber or wattle buildings were swept away when Robert the Consul, Norman earl of Gloucester, granted the land to Cistercian monks from the French abbey of Chirvaux for the founding of a daughter house.
		The abbey took 40 years to build and was the largest and wealthiest in Wales in the 12th century.
		The south aisle contains tombs of the Mansels, the family who acquired Margam in the 16th century, and the west windows are the work of William Morris, Victorian artist, writer, and visionary.
	www.castlewales.com /margam.html (333 words)

	Margam Abbey - TheBestLinks.com - Henry VIII of England, 13th century, 1157, Cistercian, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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		On a hill overlooking the abbey stand the ruins of an outlying monastery building, Capel Mair ar y Bryn ("the chapel of St Mary on the hill").At one point in Margam's history there were only 12 monks living in the monastery.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Margam_Abbey.html (179 words)

	Abbeys
		The site he allocated to the abbey comprised of 18 000 acres of land near the west coast of the lordship of Glamorgan: the original endowment consisted of ‘all the land between the Kenfig and Afan rivers from the brow of the mountains to the sea’.
		This was particularly fortunate for Margam and John's own foundation of Beaulieu were the only two houses to escape the crushing burdens of King John’s taxes.
		(11) The abbey was dissolved in 1536 and the monks dispersed.
	cistercians.shef.ac.uk /abbeys/margam.php (757 words)

	W A M C H S- Events. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The founding of the abbey by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, (illegitimate son of Henry I) in 1147 was probably in expiation for the burning of churches by his mercenaries: Robert-was, under threat of excommunication by the Cistercian Pope, Eugenius III - a placatory gesture on Robert's part in founding a Cistercian Abbey.
		Their spiritual dedication, adherence tostrict rules, simple lifestyle and astute husbandry of the none too fertile lands in Margam and the acquiring of better lands in the Vale of Glamorgan ensured increasing prosperity from the time of the founding of the Abbey to the middle of the 13th century.
		But calamities, both natural and man-made reversed the Abbey's fortunes so that early in the 15th century it was destroyed and the monks wandered the countryside like vagabonds: the later dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII in the 16th century was another misfortune visited upon Margam Abbey.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /d.chidgey/Events2004.htm (2493 words)

	Penrice Castle Cottages - Pitt Soggs Cottage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The male line of the de Penrice family died out in 1410, with the marriage of Isabel de Penrice to Sir Hugh Mansel; the Mansels were also of Norman descent and continued to live at Penrice until the mid fifteenth century when they built themselves Oxwich Castle, a semi-fortified manor house nearer the sea.
		In the mid eighteenth century, however, the male line of the Mansel line failed and the Margam and Penrice Estates passed by marriage to the Talbot family of Laycock Abbey in Wiltshire.
		Margam then became the family's main home again, with Penrice only being used for occasional visits and for shooting parties.
	www.penricecastle.co.uk /history.html (890 words)

	Llansamlet History, Industry, Coal-Mining. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The coal was worked near Margam, in the hill district of Penhydd extending to the River Ffrwdwyllt, and was intended for use at the Monk’s Grange of Rossoulin and for the Abbey at Margam and its tenants.
		In addition to the early coal developments mentioned on the Abbey estate on the west side of the Neath river, lands belonging to the lord to the west and east of the river were also being worked for coal during the 14th and 15th centuries.
		The output from the Abbey pits was most probably shipped not at the town quay but at a quay on the opposite side of the river near the Abbey, on the west bank of the estuary.
	www.page-net.com /swansea.localhistory/llansamlet/pages/coalmining.html (4884 words)

	Cistercian Way (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Margam was a Norman foundation, begun by Robert Fitzroy, earl of Gloucester and illegitimate son of Henry I of England, in 1147.
		All that remains of the early buildings at Margam is the nave of the church, converted after the Dissolution for parish use.
		These suggest that Margam may have been an important early monastic foundation which was dispossessed by the Normans.
	cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk /margam-abbey.html (615 words)

	BBC - South West Wales Local History - Historic Port Talbot
		Both Margam and Aberafan, home of the descendants of Caradoc ap Iestyn, who founded the Welsh borough of Afan, lay on the main roads to West Wales, and both abbey and town played host to travellers of all kinds, from kings to beggars.
		When Margam Abbey was dissolved in 1537, its lands were bought by Sir Rice Mansel of Oxwich, Gower; three hundred years later C.R.M. Talbot, descendent of Rice Mansel and builder of Margam Castle and the new Docks, gave his own name to the rapidly growing town.
		The monks of Margam were the first to mine local coal, but in the eighteenth century coal levels were opened at Cwmafan and Bryn, partly to serve the newly opened copper works at Taibach.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wales/southwest/sites/local_history/pages/sr_jones.shtml (780 words)

	Plate 53. Remains of the Cloisters of Margam Abbey, Glamorganshire. [1162x701]
		Remains of the Cloisters of Margam Abbey, Glamorganshire.
		The Margam Stones Museum has some stone monuments and crosses from the 7th to 9th Century, including ones from the Church.
		Margam Abbey was founded in 1147; the church is the only Cistercian Foundation in Wales still used for Christian worship and with the Nave intact.
	fromoldbooks.org /HistoryOfWales/pages/53-remains-of-cloisters-of-margam-abbey/1162x701.html (123 words)

	Kenfig to Margam
		Pass the monastery fish pond on your left and then glimpses of Margam Abbey church, also on the left.
		Turning left at this point would have brought you to the Abbots kitchen, the Margam Stones Museum and the Abbey Church.
		Close by is Margam Castle which replaced an old house.
	www.glamorganwalks.com /kenfig_to_margam.htm (2246 words)

	Margam Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Abbey Print is located nearby the beautiful Margam Abbey at Port Talbot South Wales.
		The Margam Abbey Church is built in a place of peace and tranquility.
		Abbey Print is not associated with Margam Abbey.
	www.abbey-print.freeserve.co.uk /welcome/margam_abbey.html (98 words)

	Margam Abbey - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Margam Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Margam Abbey - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Margam Abbey.
		Here you will find more informations about Margam Abbey.
		The ruins of other abbey buildings, including the twelve-sided chapter house, dating from the 13th century, stand within a 840 acre (3.4 km²) country park, close to Margam Castle.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Margam-Abbey.html (184 words)

	Welsh Abbeys
		Cistercian abbeys were to be sited in isolation away from towns or villages, and 'far from the concourse of men'.
		On the one hand, those of the south and east such as Tintern (founded 1131), Margam (founded 1147) and Neath (becoming Cistercian in 1147) were founded by Anglo-Norman lords, and their subsequent fortunes were largely dependent upon later Marcher Lords.
		t the abbey, the lay brothers lived as part of the full community, though they were bound by less severe rules.
	www.castlewales.com /abbeys.html (1941 words)

	The Early Loveluck Family of Glamorgan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Accounts in Margam show that there was a William John, Portreeve of Kenfig in 1788 and that he paid £2.5.7½ for the rents of the Borough and the Parschal Hill holding (Ref. Story of Kenfig, Evans, P.4).
		As Edward went away from Kenfig to farm, William who stayed with his father, was appointed executor of his mother's Will, and received the residue of her estate and "effects on condition he pays his brother and sisters or their husbands the respective tokens bequeathed to them as specified".
		She is buried on the oldest part of the Churchyard near the original of John's family tomb near the path leading to the centre of the North wall of the Church.
	perso.numericable.fr /~lovjames/family-history/loveluck/jh-notes.html (3514 words)

	News Wales > Culture > 13th Century Mill uncovered in Margam
		The corn mill at Llanmihangel farm is believed to be part of a monastic grange of Margam Abbey dating from the 13th Century.
		Montgomery Watson also carried out their own research into the history of the hedgerows and walls along the route of the pipeline which are believed to have been built by the monks of Margam Abbey and formed the boundary of the ancient borough of Kenfig.
		The pipeline was diverted slightly to ensure it did not disturb the newly discovered ruins and hedgerows, and the project has been praised by the local authority for its sensitive approach to the environment.
	www.newswales.co.uk /?section=Culture&F=1&id=1300 (457 words)

	Scriptorium of Margam Abbey, 085115851X, £70.00/$140.00, 184pp, 2001
		The Scriptorium of Margam Abbey and the Scribes of Early Angevin Glamorgan
		Margam Abbey was founded by the lord of Glamorgan, Earl Robert of Gloucester, in 1147.
		This overall picture is made possible by his identification, dating, and bureaucratic attribution of over fifty scribal hands found in the Margam manuscripts of the National Library of Wales and the charter collections of the British Library and Hereford Cathedral Library.
	www.boydellandbrewer.com /5115851X.HTM (419 words)

	GENUKI: Margam references at the National Library of Wales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Estate and family records of Mansel, later Talbot, of Penrice, in Gower, Glamorgan, and, from the 16th cent., of Margam Abbey, 12th-19th cent.
		The Margam Abbey archive is one of the fullest surviving British monastic archives.
		There are substantial early archives for Penrice, and other estates, mostly in Glamorgan; manorial records for the manor of Margam Abbey and others; early records of the coal industry.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/wal/GLA/Margam/nlwref.html (261 words)

	Visitor Guide - Heritage - Margam Abbey & Stones Museum
		Margam Abbey Church, founded in 1147 is the only Cistercian Foundation in Wales whose nave is still intact and used for Christian worship.
		Margam Abbey Stones Museum is a small but significant museum in the care of CADW, housing a collection of inscribed pre- Romanesque, Roman and Celtic stones and crosses, some found within the Margam area, including the great Wheel Cross of Conbelin.
		Guided tours of both the Abbey and the Stones Museum are available by arrangement with the Margam Parish Office.
	www.neath-porttalbot.gov.uk /tourism/heritage/margam_abbey.cfm (207 words)

	King Arthur's Burial Cross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		History tells us that in the early winter of 1191, a pavilion was erected in the cemetary between two tall pyramids which stood close by the south door of the new church.
		The final disposition of the bodies is unknown, but they probably didn't survive the Dissolution of the abbey by Henry VIII and his zealots during the English Reformation in 1539.
		The Margam account stated that there were three separate coffins (one each for Arthur, Guinevere and Mordred) and that the wording on the cross did not mention Guinevere.
	britannia.com /history/cross.html (2813 words)

	Rievaulx > People
		King John appointed Abbot William to notify the other Yorkshire Cistercian abbots that he, the king, intended to found an abbey of the Order; in 1215 he founded Beaulieu, in Hampshire.
		Geoffrey was sent to arbitrate in a dispute between the Cistercian communities of Fountains and Byland.
		He died and was buried at Rufford Abbey in 1216.
	cistercians.shef.ac.uk /rievaulx/people (397 words)

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