Dissolution
The house was suppressed with the smaller monasteries in 1536. At Dissolution, the net annual income of the abbey was £124. By the mid-16th century, the abbey buildings were in ruins. In 1539, Henry VIII granted Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk the lands of Vaudey Abbey, and he used its stone as building material for his new house. In 1736 William Stukeley noted that only the precinct wall remained intact.
On the other side of Grimsthorpe Park, Scottlethorpe has substantial stone remains now used as part of a barn. This may be remains of an unrelated Chapel known to have been located there, or might have been re-located from Vaudey Abbey
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