Bardney Abbey

Bardney Abbey in Lincolnshire, England, was a Benedictine monastery founded in 697[1] by King Æthelred of Mercia, who was to become the first abbot.

[2] In 1087, the site was refounded as a priory, by Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln, and it regained status as an abbey in 1115.

[7] Some grave slabs and carved stones are preserved in Bardney parish church, which is dedicated to St Lawrence.

[10] Bede relates that Bardney Abbey (which he called Beardaneu)[11] was greatly loved by Osthryth, queen of Mercia, and in about 679 she sought to move the bones of her uncle, the very pious St Oswald, to there.

The bones at Bardney were washed before interment and ground into which the water was poured supposedly gained great healing powers.