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Abingdon Abbey was a Benedictine monastery located in Abingdon, historically in the county of Berkshire but now in Oxfordshire, England. This article is about the Roman Catholic order; see also Benedictine Confederation and Benedictine. ...
Statistics Population: 36,000 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SU497973 Administration Parish: Abingdon District: Vale of White Horse Shire county: Oxfordshire Region: South East England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Oxfordshire Historic county: Berkshire Services Police force: Thames Valley Police Ambulance service: South Central Post...
The traditional counties of England are ancient subdivisions of England into around forty areas, which were used for both administrative and general geographical demarcation for several hundreds of years. ...
Berkshire (IPA: or ; sometimes abbreviated to Berks) is a county in England and forms part of the South East England region. ...
Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in south-east England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ...
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History
The abbey was supposedly founded in 675 either by Cissa, viceroy of Centwine, king of the West Saxons, or by his nephew Hean, in honour of the Virgin Mary, for twelve Benedictine monks. Events The abbey of Abingdon, England is founded Aldhelm made abbot Aethelred succeeds his brother Wulfhere as king of Mercia Births Deaths Wulfhere, king of Japan - Temmu Emperor of Japan (672-686) Categories: 675 ...
Genus Cissa Boie, 1826 Cissa is a genus of short-tailed magpies that reside in the forests of tropical and sub_tropical Asia. ...
Centwine is the name of: Centwine of Mercia Centwine of Wessex This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
This article concerns the English kingdom, not the Westland Wessex helicopter Wessex was one of the seven major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (the Heptarchy) that preceded the kingdom of England. ...
Hæha (generally known as Hean) was the legendary first Abbot of Abingdon, but, according to Kelly (2000), more probably an Abbot of Bradfield, his name having been plucked from a charter dated 704, with others, in order to replace the lost early history of the Abbey of Abingdon. ...
Saint Mary and Saint Mary the Virgin both redirect here. ...
A Benedictine is a person who follows the Rule of St Benedict. ...
Endowed by successive West Saxon kings, it grew in importance and wealth until its destruction by the Danes in the reign of King Alfred, and the sequestration of its estates by Alfred because the monks had not made him a sufficient requital for vanquishing their enemies. There is a collection of 136 charters granted to this abbey by various Saxon kings. Alfred (849? – 26 October 899) (sometimes spelt Ælfred) was king of England from 871 to 899, though at no time did he rule over the whole of the land. ...
Amongst its abbots were Saint Aethelwold, afterwards Bishop of Winchester (954), and Richard of Hendred, for whose appointment the King's consent was obtained in 1262. He was present at the Council of Lyon in 1272. The following list of Anglo-Saxon Abbots of Abingdon is taken from Kelly (2000). ...
Saint Æthelwold (also spelled Aethelwald, Ethelwold, etc) (909-984) was a 10th century Bishop of Winchester and leader of the monastic reform movement in Anglo-Saxon England. ...
Arms of the Bishop of Winchester The diocese of Winchester is one of the oldest and most important in England. ...
Events Strasbourg becomes a Free City of the Holy Roman Empire First Visconti become the lord of Iceland swear fealty to the king of Norway, bringing an end to the Icelandic Commonwealth Births Ladislaus IV of Hungary Deaths Monarchs/Presidents Aragon - James I King of Aragon and count of Barcelona...
The Council of Lyons refers to either the 13th or 14th ecumenical councils of the Roman Catholic Church, both held in Lyon, France during the 13th century: First Council of Lyons (1245; Pope Innocent IV; regarding the Crusades) Second Council of Lyons (1274; Pope Gregory X; regarding papal election procedures...
The last Abbot of Abingdon was Thomas Pentecost alias Rowland, who was among the first to acknowledge the Royal Supremacy. With the rest of his community he signed the surrender of his monastery in 1538, receiving the manor of Cumnor for life or until he had preferment to the extent of £223 per annum. The revenues of the Abbey (26 Hen. VIII) were valued at £1876, 10s, 9d. The legal authority of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. ...
Events Treaty of Nagyvarad. ...
Cumnor is a small village just to the west of Oxford [1], it has a population of about 2000 people. ...
Extant Buildings There is nothing to see today of the abbey church. There are some 'ruinous' arches in the 'Abbey Gardens', but this is really a folly built in the 1920s. Some of its architectural features are dubiously said to have come from the old abbey. Broadway Tower, England The folly at Wimpole Hall, England High Service Water Tower (1895), Lawrence, Massachusetts. ...
The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ...
Associated monastic buildings do, however, survive, including the Abbey Exchequer, the timber-framed Long Gallery, the Abbey bakehouse, the Abbey gateway, St John's hospitium (pilgrims' hostel) and the Church of Saint Nicolas. For albums named Pilgrim, see Pilgrim (album). ...
The Church of Saint Nicolas is an Anglican church in Abingdon in the English county of Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire). ...
The one of the original fire places was removed and is now still intact in Lacies Court, on Bath Street
See also The following list of Anglo-Saxon Abbots of Abingdon is taken from Kelly (2000). ...
The Coseners House is on an island by the River Thames within the original grounds of Abingdon Abbey, located near the centre of the town of Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England. ...
External links - Royal Berkshire History: Abingdon Abbey
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