Jul 12, 2016 · Looking for somewhere to visit this weekend? Be inspired by Wales' romantic ruins and finest religious buildings

List of monastic houses in Wales is a catalogue of abbeys, priories, friaries and other monastic religious houses in Wales. In this article, alien houses are included, as are smaller establishments such as cells and notable monastic granges (particularly those with resident monks), and also camerae of the military orders of monks (Templars and ...

Wales’s Westminster Abbey and the muse of Wordsworth. Historians have their favourite abbeys, though none would argue that a few are always front-runners. Locked deep in the Cambrian Mountains near Pontrhydfendigaid there’s Strata Florida Abbey.

Tintern Abbey (Welsh: Abaty Tyndyrn pronunciation ⓘ) is a ruined medieval abbey situated adjacent to the village of Tintern in Monmouthshire, on the Welsh bank of the River Wye, which at this location forms the border between Monmouthshire in Wales and Gloucestershire in England.

The church tower, standing almost to its full height, is the most impressive feature of the ruined abbey, which never enjoyed the wealth and success of the Cistercian religious settlements – quite widespread throughout Wales – that inspired it.

Aberconwy Abbey was a Cistercian foundation at Conwy, later transferred to Maenan near Llanrwst, and in the 13th century was the most important abbey in the north of Wales. A Cistercian house was founded at Rhedynog Felen near Caernarfon in 1186 by a group of monks from Strata Florida Abbey.

While the existence of the decorated Margam Stones suggest an earlier monastery on the site, Margam Abbey’s surviving ruins date to a Cistercian monastery from 1147. Built on land donated by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, the abbey became the …

Majestic medieval abbey was legendary for its lavish feasts Valle Crucis was truly Welsh from the moment it was founded in 1201 by Prince Madog ap Gruffydd and the ‘white monks’ of the Cistercian order.

Tintern Abbey is a national icon – still standing in roofless splendour on the banks of the River Wye nearly 500 years since its tragic fall from grace. It was founded in 1131 by Cistercian monks, who were happy to make do with timber buildings at first.

The church tower, standing almost to its full height, is the most impressive feature of the ruined abbey, which never enjoyed the wealth and success of the Cistercian religious settlements – quite widespread throughout Wales – that inspired it.