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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Monastery information Full name The abbey of St Mary and All Saints Order Cistercian Established 1186 Disestablished 1539 People Founder(s) Ralph de Kahaines Important associated figures Queen Joan , Bishop Richard Poore Architecture Heritage designation Scheduled Monument 1002715 - ruins Grade I listed building 1110840 - church Designated date 26 June 1963 Site Location Tarrant Crawford , Dorset Coordinates 50.831431°N 2.122276°W Coordinates : 50.831431°N 2.122276°W Tarrant Abbey was a Cistercian nunnery in Tarrant Crawford, Dorset, England. History The abbey was founded as an independent monastery in 1186 by Ralph de Kahaines (of nearby Tarrant Keyneston ) and has been identified as a possible site of "Camestrum", referred to by Gervase of Canterbury. The abbey was then re-founded in either 1228 or 1233 as a Cistercian nunnery, later supposedly the richest in England. Two famous people are associated with the abbey. The first is Queen Joan, the wife of Alexander II of Scotland and daughter of King John of England , who is buried in the graveyard (supposedly in a golden coffin). The second is Bishop Richard Poore, builder of Salisbury Cathedral, who was baptised in the abbey church and later (in 1237) buried in it, as its second founder. The church of St Mary the Virgin , the parish church of Tarrant Crawford, is all that remains of Tarrant Abbey. It was the lay church of the abbey and was built in the 12th century. It has now been designated as a Grade I listed building and is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The site of the abbey is a Scheduled monument containing mostly buried remains.