Lilleshall Abbey

Lilleshall Abbey was an abbey in Shropshire, England.

The religious order was originally founded in 1143 moved to Lilleshall from Dorchester Abbey in 1148.

The Abbey was founded by Richard de Belmeis for canons of the Augustinian Order of Aras. The founding community originally followed the customs and observance of the Augustinian monastery at Arrouaise in north-eastern France.

The church was built in the 12th and 13th centuries. Its size and magnificence indicates it had wealthy benefactors; Henry III visited twice in circa 1240. The abbey's income came from a variety of sources including tolls over the Atcham Bridge on the River Severn.

The surviving abbey buildings almost all date from the late 12th and early 13th centuries. Other buildings have been lost, but their foundations were partially recovered by excavations in the late 19th century. The central buildings stood in a much larger monastic precinct, enclosed by a stone wall and gates.

It is now in the guardianship of English Heritage.

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