Festival Bowland 2021 - Sawley Abbey: the buildings and people of a medieval monastery (ONLINE)

Between 1148 and 1537, Sawley Abbey was home to a community of white-clad Cistercian monks. This talk will examine the insights the abbey's ruined buildings provide into the evolution of the monks' way of life over 400 years, and question traditional notions of late medieval decline leading to Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries.

It will also use art and architecture to illuminate the lives of the people who lived, prayed and worked at the abbey between the 12th and 16th centuries.

Dr Michael Carter is senior properties historian at English Heritage. He specialises in monastic history, art and architecture and has an especial interest in the Cistercians in northern England. He has published and lectured widely.

(All under 18s must be accompanied at these online events.) 

Booking essential. For more information and to book a place please email sandra.silk@lancashire.gov.ukor phone 07973 923142

Free, but donations to English Heritage are welcomed https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/support-us/donate-now/