Wales

St Dogmaels Abbey, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Visited in july 2024

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St Dogmaels Abbey, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Ruins of the medieval Abbey of St Mary (also known as St Dogmaels Abbey). "Founded in 1115 by the Fitzmartin family of Cemais, established by the Order of Tiron, a medieval monastic order, with 117 abbeys in France, England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. This order of Tiron (or grey monks), 1106 was founded by the Benedictine Bernard de Ponthieu, also known as Bernard d'Abbeville (1046–1117), In 1118. This order was founded in reaction to the laxity of the other orders of the time. (Wikipedia). The abbey was dissolved in 1536.

Ruins of the cloister and others places, the monks observed an austere life based on the rule of St Benedict.

Corbels, with the attributes of 2 apostles, the lion of St Mark and the angel of St Matthew with cross hat, and curling hair,

Capitals in the nave 13th C, wonderful colours of the stone

Ruins of St Dogmaels Abbey and the near Victorian church of St Thomas, Saint Dogmaels

"Fishers of men", a stained glass from the near church of St Thomas to commemorate the 900 years of the abbey, by Stanley Williams.