Bordesley Abbey

It was a lovely sunny day today and on our way to do the weekly food shop in Redditch we paid a quick visit to Bordesley Abbey.

We came here on 14th July last year in search of a blip and on that occasion came across two juvenile swallows which ended up featuring as my blip. There were no such wildlife delights on show today, so this time the Abbey ruins make it as the blip.

They are not very impressive. Just a few foundations of the Abbey church remain. It was a 12th century Cistercian abbey founded by Waleran de Beaumont, the 1st Earl of Worcester. Like most abbeys in England it met its demise at the hands of Henry VIII during the Dissolution in 1538.

This shot shows the nave with a couple of graves and the base of a pillar still with its dressing stone.