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4 Jun, 5 tweets, 2 min read
A visit today to another of Suffolk's lesser known monastic houses - Old Leiston Abbey, not to be confused with the large ruins of New Leiston Abbey located several miles away ImageImageImage
Abandoned in 1363, the original site of Leiston Abbey was deemed too marshy, but the Premonstratensian canons maintained a chapel there whose ruins became a defensive fortification in WW2
There are lots of questions about Old Leiston. Is the ruin the old monastic choir? Or a later building? Where exactly was the old monastery? And why is New Leiston built in such an archaic style?
New Leiston appears to be a rare example of 'gothic neo-gothic'; a medieval building deliberately built in imitation of an earlier style. Is it trying to be a replica of what was once at Old Leiston?
Anyway, here are some Konik Ponies grazing on front of Old Leiston Image

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Suffolk has an interesting and complex shrieval history. The Abbots of Bury St Edmunds exercised shrieval authority in medieval west Suffolk while Norfolk and Suffolk had a single sheriff - but he exercised authority only over Suffolk's 'geldable lands' - about 1/3 of the county
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