Cirencester Abbey

Cirencester Abbey
Augustinian abbey of St Mary the Virgin, Cirencester
Cirencester Abbey gatehouse
Cirencester Abbey
51°43′09″N 1°57′58″W / 51.7191°N 1.9660°W / 51.7191; -1.9660
CountryEngland
History
Founded1130 (1130)
FounderHenry I of England
DedicationMary the Virgin
Dedicated17 October 1176
Architecture
StyleRomanesque, Gothic
Closed19 December 1539

Cirencester Abbey was a house of regular canons in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, founded in 1130 by Henry I of England on the site of a large late-Saxon church. It grew into one of the wealthiest communities of Augustinians in England, noted for its library and a substantial precinct shaped by mills and managed watercourses. The abbey was surrendered in December 1539 during the dissolution of the monasteries.

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