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A History of the County of Berkshire
… as the Hyde Chronicles 15 describe him, granted to the abbey of St. Pierre de Praux the church of St. Nicholas of … In a case tried before papal delegates at Winchester the abbey of Reading claimed Newbury Church as a chapelry of … Thatcham Church, and on a compromise being arrived at the abbey of Preaux undertook further to pay to Reading a yearly …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Either from St. Andrew's Priory or from St. James's Abbey: ibid. 56. In the middle order the cheveron and ball …
A History of the County of Northampton
… date important suburbs outside the liberties. Round the abbey of St. James, 39 founded about 1100 on the west side of … traced is in 1358, 40 but a 13th century cartulary of the abbey which mentions various streets by name shows that it … rising ground south of the river, round the site of Delapr Abbey. The second Reform Act added parts of Dallington, …
A History of the County of Northampton
… fragments are now in the Northampton Museum. 21 ST. JAMES' ABBEY, 22 was a house of Austin Canons, founded at the … in the town. The only trace remaining to-day is the name Abbey Street; a small part of the Abbey wall on the Weedon Road, near the point where the roads …
A History of the County of Northampton
… south-east of the town, between the river and Delapr Abbey. Henry VI was taken prisoner, and his queen fled to … that the Eleanor Cross on the London Road outside the abbey grounds had already had its top broken off. 54 Not till … to his stepson, the second Simon, the founder of Delapr Abbey. By August 1138 Simon II had been rewarded with the …
A History of the County of Northampton
… mills to the south-east of the town were held by Delapre Abbey. 123 After the shoemaking and leather currying …
A History of the County of Warwick
… parish boundary along the northern edge of Chilvers Coton; Abbey Street leads north-west to Atherstone, and in it (no. … three stations: Nuneaton Trent Valley (opened Dec. 1847), Abbey Street, and Stockingford (1864). 4 King Henry II … granted in 1545 to John Hales of that city. 97 Stoneleigh Abbey possessed tenements valued in 1535 at 2 s. 6 d., out of …
A History of the County of Worcester
… town. 7 In 1388 it was again in ruins, 8 and when Pershore Abbey was destroyed some of the materials were used for … Thomas Woodward, the animal painter, was buried in the abbey church in 1852. 12 The house of Anne Thomas of Pershore … King Edgar and dated 972 16 Pershore was confirmed to the abbey of Pershore, and is there said to have been granted by …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… they appear to have been brought from the dismantled abbey when the parish church underwent a drastic rebuilding … church during the rebuilding, or, more probably, from the abbey ruins. On the south-west buttress, about 8 ft. from the … and is said to have been constructed of timber from the abbey. It is divided into four bays by curved moulded trusses …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Forbury Gardens, occupying part of the site of the former abbey. Greyfriars Church stands at the west end of Friar … present town hall, which occupies part of the site of the abbey hospitium, was first erected there in 1786, since which … Castle Street, Reading Of the buildings of Reading Abbey founded in 1121 the principal remains above ground are …