Tags: Religious Building.
Swineshead Abbey was an abbey in Swineshead Lincolnshire. The Abbey of St Mary a Cistercian monastery was founded in 1134 by Robert de Gresley. Gresley and his son Albert endowed the Abbey with 240 acres of land and other gifts. The Abbey was originally Savigniac and populated with monks from Furness Abbey but was absorbed into the Cistercian order along with all the other Savigniac Houses in 1147.