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Cistercian Abbeys: SAWTRY Name: SAWTRY Location: nr Sawtry
village County: Cambridgeshire Sawtry abbey was founded in 1147 by Simon de
Senlis (d. 1153), earl of Huntingdon and Northampton (created
1136/8),
whose family descended from William the Conqueror. The abbey was
the first house colonised by monks from the abbey of Warden. Sawtry
never acquired any great size or prosperity. At the time of the
Dissolution the abbey had a net annual income of £141 and
a community of seven monks. The house was suppressed with the
smaller
monasteries in 1536.(1) By the early
nineteenth century little of the house was left standing and the
foundations of the buildings
were
being dug out for road stone.
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