Sawtry Abbey in Sawtry, Cambridgeshire

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Coordinates: 52.42703, -0.24114
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The Abbey of Saint Mary was founded in 1147 by Simon de Senlis, earl of Huntingdon and Northampton whose family descended from William the Conqueror. The abbey was the first house colonised by monks from the abbey of Warden near Bedford. The abbey took 91 years to construct, built of local stone from Barnack. Consecrated in 1238, the abbey never achieved great prominence but it was visited by Kings, and in 1536 Catherine of Aragon's body rested there when her funeral cortege broke its journey from Kimbolton Castle to Peterborough. The abbey was dissolved in 1536 and the buildings were all subsequently demolished. It is documented that stone was still being taken from the site in the mid 19th century.