March 1135 A.D. Wardon Abbey, Bedfordshire—Cistersian House; Wealthy; Bubonic Plague; Dissolved by Henry VIII
March 1135 A.D. Wardon Abbey, Bedfordshire—Cistersian House; Wealthy; Bubonic Plague; Dissolved by Henry VIII Wardon or Warden Abbey , Bedfordshire , was one of the senior Cistercian houses of England, founded about 1135 from Rievaulx Abbey . [1] [2] It is a Grade I listed building. Contents · 1 History · 2 Gallery of tiling from Warden Abbey on display in Bedford Museum · 3 See also · 4 Notes History The patron was Walter Espec, who had founded the mother house and settled the new community on one of his inherited estates, on unprofitable wasteland, as its early name, St Mary de Sartis, implied, [3] just the kind of remote, uninhabited sites ...