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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. The Anglo-Norman Amesbury Priory was disbanded at the Dissolution of the monasteries and ceased to exist as a ...
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May 6, 2016 · THE ABBEY, LATER PRIORY, OF AMESBURY. In the last days of the Edgarian revival, Alfrida, relict of King Edgar, founded Benedictine nunneries at Amesbury and at Wherwell, Hants. (fn. 1) Contrition for the murder of Edward the Martyr (for which, however, she is no longer held to have been personally responsible) is said to have been the motive ...
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Mar 26, 2023 · 1666: Amesbury is incorporated as a town in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Official Seal of the Town of Amesbury. 1675: The Deacon Thomas Currier House, a two-story gable-roofed first period house, is built on Lion’s Mouth Road and originally serves as a garrison before later being occupied by Deacon Thomas Currier.
During the medieval period the Benedictine abbey of Amesbury formed part of the land of a priory manor that stood here. At the Dissolution, the latter held its own site, mills, meadows, pasture, agricultural land, parkland, and various properties in the town of Amesbury (VCH 1995).
The priory enjoyed, Royal patronage for many years. In 1241 Eleanor of Brittany (Granddaughter of Henry II) died in Bristol but was buried in the Priory at Amesbury. In 1283 Mary (6th daughter of Edward I and Granddaughter of Eleanor of Provence) together with her half sister Leonora ''took the veil" in the presence of the whole Royal family.
Oct 30, 2021 · Many of the Amesbury nuns were also of aristocratic birth, including Eleanor of Provence, queen consort of Henry III, who retired to the priory during her widowhood. She died in Amesbury in 1291 and was buried within the priory, though the location of her grave is unknown – as was that of the abbey, until recently.
Amesbury Abbey (house) / 51.1745; -1.7854. Amesbury Abbey is a Grade I listed mansion in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, built in the 1830s for Sir Edmund Antrobus to designs of Thomas Hopper. The house, which stands in Grade II* listed parkland, is now used as a care home. It takes its name from Amesbury Abbey, founded in about 979 on or near ...
