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A History of the County of Warwick
… see again, this time to Coventry where a rich Benedictine abbey had been founded in 1043 by Leofric, Earl of Mercia, … same time he obtained from the Crown the custody of the abbey. Thenceforward the bishop had a cathedra in Coventry as well as in Lichfield, the abbey becoming, as a result, a cathedral priory. 3 Robert de …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of the town by founding and richly endowing a Benedictine abbey. By the time of the Domesday Survey Coventry was still …
A History of the County of Warwick
… belonged to Godiva in her own right, 17 and that the abbey was founded within her territories and was endowed by … of 1399, which included the suburbs then existing. 26 The abbey's endowments in the neighbourhood of Coventry were … of Sowe. 27 There is thus no evidence in Domesday that the abbey then held any lands, apart from its own precinct, …
A History of the County of Warwick
… charter relating to the foundation of the Benedictine abbey ( c. 1043) Abbot Leofwine was granted the judicial and … Coventry anyway belonged to Godiva in her own right, the abbey being founded in her territories but endowed by Leofric …
A History of the County of Warwick
… south of New Mill and immediately north of Whitley Abbey Bridge. It was mentioned in the early 13th century, … said to lie 'next to Sowe village', in frankalmoign to the Abbey of Combe. The mill was later granted by the abbey, probably on lease, to Stephen de Ladgrave. 71 This was …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of 1,080 girls was attending the school in 1964. Whitley Abbey Mixed Comprehensive School was also opened in 1955. It … as Sec. sch.; 1955 many pupils transferred to Whitley Abbey Sch. (q.v.). ( 1, 11, 12) CHRIST CHURCH C.E., Union St. … became Churchfield High Sch.; 1955 merged with Whitley Abbey Sch. (q.v.). Premises used as an annexe to Whitley …
A History of the County of Warwick
… dedicated to the Sacred Heart, was built at Whitley Abbey between 1867 and 1869 by the owner, Edward Petre, a … ex inf. the Diocesan Archivist. The Petre family sold the Abbey in 1920. The whole building was demolished in 1953: see …
A History of the County of Warwick
… king's daughter, Princess Elizabeth, was coming from Combe Abbey to see the plays. The Puritan council referred the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of several religious houses, including the Benedictine abbey at Coventry. She seems to have been a woman of … nunnery in the 10th century and of the Benedictine abbey in 1043, in the form of a spring procession with … that a description of Godiva's generosity to Coventry Abbey, in which she 'stripped herself' ( denudata) of her …
A History of the County of Warwick
… boundary between Coventry and Stoneleigh since Stoneleigh Abbey's grange of Horwell, created from assarts in Westwood, … 75 A carucate of land at Horwell was acquired for the abbey by Abbot Osbert de Westwelle (1235-58); 76 this was … de Olney's grant to Philip de Winchcombe. 77 In 1284 the abbey was granted free warren in all its demesne lands …