Alcester Abbey
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Alcester Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Alcester, Warwickshire in England. The abbey was founded 1138 by the Botellers of Oversley, Warwickshire.[1] The Abbey's many endowments included the Chapel of St. James and St. Peter, near Shaftesbury, Dorset, and the manor of Blynfield in the parish of St. James, which is known[by whom?] as the 'Manor of Alcester and Bec', together with a number of other churches and estates.
In 1467 Alcester Abbey was annexed by Evesham Abbey, the last of its own priors having been Richard Tutbury, from 1459 to 1466; from that time it had a prior or warden who was an Evesham monk.[2] In 1536 the ownership of the abbey was transferred to Thomas Cromwell.
Little now remains of the site.
References
- ^ A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 2: Religious Houses, William Page ed 1908 pages 56-61 URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=36488
- ^ David Knowles; David M. Smith; Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke (13 March 2008). The Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales, III. 1377-1540. Cambridge University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-521-86508-1.
Coordinates: 52°13′07″N 1°52′24″W / 52.21861°N 1.87333°W
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