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Strata Marcella Abbey is a Cistercian monastery founded in the early twelfth century in the valley of the River Severn in Powys, Wales. The abbey was established as a daughter house of Abbey Dore in Herefordshire and became an important religious and economic centre in medieval Wales, with extensive landholdings across the region. The surviving remains include substantial portions of the stone abbey church and monastic buildings arranged around a cloister, demonstrating the characteristic layout of Cistercian houses. The site was dissolved during the Reformation in the sixteenth century, after which the buildings fell into ruin, though the stone fabric has been substantially preserved.
Strata Marcella Abbey is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference MG120. View the official record →
Strata Marcella Abbey is a Cistercian monastery founded in the early twelfth century in the valley of the River Severn in Powys, Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference MG120.
Strata Marcella Abbey dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a abbey. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Strata Marcella Abbey is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is MG120.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Offa's Dyke: Section NE of Welshpool-Churchstoke Road (8.1 km), Nant-Cribau Castle Mound (9.1 km), Nant-Cribau Moated House Site (9.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Strata Marcella Abbey's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Strata Marcella Abbey stands on Caradoc Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Caradocian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.