'Incredibly important' medieval find in Wales (convent, cemetery and Tudor mansion)

Archaeologynewsnetwork ^ | June 13, 2014

[NYer]

Strata Florida Abbey

[NYer]

Ping!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“village of Pontrhydfendigaid”

That’s easy for you to say!

[livius]

Very interesting!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks NYer for posting this.

[Kackikat]

Tudor Mansion?

[BenLurkin]

An anachronism, indeed.

[RJS1950]

I don’t think it is Tudor, this is medieval in the timeline.

[livius]

When Henry VIII destroyed the monasteries and Church holdings, he gave them to his friends and relatives. The same thing happened in Spain, when the left took over in the 19th century...the properties owned by the Church during the time of the “Desamortizacion” (”Disentailment”) were distributed to friends and relatives of the government.

The bad thing for the average Englishman or Spaniard was that the monasteries were big economic centers and maintained many families around them. It was paternalistic, but there would have been a transition to a different system as the trade fairs and banking brought by them had an impact.

The result in Spain was massive emigration, but that was during the 19th century. I’m not sure what happened in Wales, although it had major emigration to Argentina and the US in the 19th century.

[Candor7]

“GET THEE TO A NUNNERY,” has a whole new meaning.

[cloudmountain]

I wonder if Brother Cadfael ever visited there. :o)

[Candor7]

Cistercian lineages are interesting. Their main practice was
meditation, not prayer. They have a lot in common with certain lineages of Zen meditation and contemplation.

The main hall of this nunnery could have been a meditation room.

[Jeff Chandler]

Wales are not fish.

[AnAmericanMother]

Mansion is Tudor. Convent definitely medieval.

Probably the land was confiscated from the order by Henry VIII's minions, given to local nobility or gentry "for value received" and the mansion then constructed over the wrecked convent.

[Bigg Red]

...watery places were likely to have held continuing spiritual significance to both the nuns and pilgrims, she said.

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What? We are not talking about pagans here. Why would she say this? Did she mean to say that such places had practical significance for the nuns?

[AnAmericanMother]

What you said.

"proudly posting without reading the entire thread since 1998."

[Bigg Red]

When Henry VIII destroyed the monasteries and Church holdings, he gave them to his friends and relatives.

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Coming soon to a church near you....

[moose07]

Pont rhyd fendigaid
Bridge too blessed

As close i can break it.

[cashless]

Well, I thought the article was going to tell me they might have found where the English lost their bollocks after the Second world War. Daniel Hannan found his, verbally chastises the idiocy of Socialism in debates and knows US History better than most secondary education History teacher in America.