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This stunning abbey was once the largest abbey in Wales and what remains is a testament to its grandeur. With impressive walls and a large area to explore, Neath Abbey will not disappoint.
Filmed: Summer 2021
Music: Solas - • A Song for Your Beloved
Entry: Free
---- Short History ----
- In 1129, Richard I de Grenville, one of the Twelve Knights of Glamorgan, gave 8,000 acres (3,200 ha) of his estate in Glamorgan, Wales, to Savigniac monks from western Normandy.
- In 1130, the first monks arrived.
- After the Savigniac order was taken up by the Cistercian order in 1147, Neath Abbey became a Cistercian house.
- Its expansion of land into Glamorgan resulted in a bitter dispute with its neighbouring abbey of Margam.
- During this time (1280 - 1330) the abbey church was rebuilt to a larger scale.
- During the Welsh uprisings of the 13th century the abbey was badly damaged.
- When King Henry the VIII dissolved the monasteries the last abbot managed to buy time through payment of a large fine but it was finally dissolved in 1539.
- Soon after the abbey became a large estate. The south-eastern part was converted into a grand mansion. But it only lasted for 100 years before the area became a scene of industry and the estate was abandoned.
- But in the 1730s some of the buildings were being used for copper smelting.
- An Iron foundry was opened near the abbey and the ruin was engulfed in industrial waste.
- It belonged to the Rice family, Barons Dynevor.
- In the 1920s, the 7th Baron Dynevor and a group of amateur archeologists began uncovering the ruins once again.
- It was eventually excavated between 1924 - 35.
- 7,000 tons of slag and other industrial waste was removed by hand.
- In 1944, the ownership passed to the Ministry of Works who further stabilised the walls.
- In 2014, Cadw took over the site and further protected it.
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