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Amesbury Priory was a Benedictine monastery at Amesbury in Wiltshire, England, belonging to the Order of Fontevraud. It was founded in 1177 to replace the earlier Amesbury Abbey , a Saxon foundation established about the year 979.
1189 First mention of male religious in a Charter. 1223 Henry III visits Amesbury. 1231 Henry III visits Amesbury. 1241 Henry III visits Amesbury. 1256 Henry III visits Amesbury. 1226 Royal timber to build infirmary chapel. 1231 Royal timber to repair cloisters and nun’s stalls. 1233 Alpesia - King’s cousin - a Nun.
May 6, 2016 · He exchanged them with the Crown together with the priory lands in Amesbury itself and certain priory woods in Buckholt (in Wallop) by indenture of 16 February 1541 confirmed by letters patent next April.
Amesbury Abbey was a benedictine abbey of women in about the year 979 on what may have been the site of an earlier monastery. The abbey was dissolved in 1177 by Henry II, who founded in its place...
Dec 2, 2016 · The priory was originally built as a daughter house of Fontrevaud, after the town’s first abbey, founded in Saxon times by Queen Elfrida, was dissolved in 1177. The old Benedictine nuns were sent upon their way (most of them having supposedly lived scandalous lives!) and 21-24 nuns from Fontevraud in France were moved in, along with some ...
PRINCIPAL BUILDING Amesbury Abbey (listed grade I) stands just east of the centre of the park. It was built for Sir Edmund Antrobus to designs by the architect Thomas Hopper between 1834 and 1840 and 1857-9. The three-storey high cubic house is built in Classical style, evoking the house of 1660 designed by John Webb that it replaced.
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The abbey was dissolved in 1177 by Henry II, who founded in its place a house of the Order of Fontevraud, known as Amesbury Priory . The name Amesbury Abbey is now used by a nearby Grade I listed country house built in the 1830s, currently a nursing home.
