• Thumbnail for Buildwas Abbey
    Buildwas Abbey was a Cistercian (originally Savigniac) monastery located on the banks of the River Severn, at Buildwas in Shropshire, England - today about...
    151 KB (15,749 words) - 17:16, 15 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Buildwas
    of Buildwas Abbey Club. The village of Buildwas has been recognised since 1086 as the first reference to it was made in the Domesday Book. Buildwas was...
    14 KB (1,416 words) - 12:41, 23 October 2023
  • Bruern Abbey, Oxfordshire, England (1147 Waverley) Buckfast Abbey, Devon, England (1136 Savigny) Buckland Abbey, Devon, England (1278 Savigny) Buildwas Abbey...
    8 KB (833 words) - 03:27, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wenlock Priory
    Wenlock Priory (redirect from Wenlock Abbey)
    monastery church. Parts of the building became a house later known as "Wenlock Abbey", which is privately owned, but most of Wenlock Priory is open to the public...
    16 KB (1,752 words) - 06:06, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Basingwerk Abbey
    Combermere Abbey in Cheshire, of which Earl Ranulf was a great benefactor. However, in 1147 the abbot and convent of Savigny transferred it to Buildwas Abbey in...
    13 KB (1,459 words) - 11:17, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shrewsbury Abbey
    II, there was Haughmond Abbey, another large Augustinian house closely connected with the FitzAlan family, and Buildwas Abbey, a large Cistercian house...
    99 KB (10,108 words) - 16:47, 1 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lilleshall Abbey
    far from inevitable. Earlier, Philip had been deeply interested in Buildwas Abbey, which was affiliated to the Congregation of Savigny (and later absorbed...
    62 KB (6,504 words) - 14:59, 26 October 2024
  • village of Buildwas and the surrounding countryside. The most important buildings in the parish are Buildwas Abbey, now in ruins, and Abbey House, the...
    19 KB (628 words) - 05:16, 20 April 2022
  • Thumbnail for 1135
    their capture in 1127. January – Byland Abbey is founded in England by the Congregation of Savigny. Buildwas Abbey is founded in England by Roger de Clinton...
    11 KB (1,172 words) - 18:23, 17 January 2024
  • Montgomery in 1080 the Augustinian Haughmond Abbey founded by William Fitz-Alan the Cistercian Buildwas Abbey, now a magnificent ruin, founded in 1135 by...
    30 KB (3,876 words) - 14:32, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Haughmond Abbey
    Haughmond Abbey (locally /ˈhoʊmənd/ HOR-mənd) is a ruined, medieval, Augustinian monastery a few miles from Shrewsbury, England. It was probably founded...
    78 KB (8,413 words) - 14:44, 17 November 2023
  • the Reformation, and virtually every town, of any size, had at least one abbey, priory, convent or friary in it. (Often many small houses of monks, nuns...
    36 KB (916 words) - 14:42, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bindon Abbey
    featured pointed arches on round piers, like the surviving church at Buildwas Abbey. Most of the construction seems to have taken place around the turn...
    8 KB (1,025 words) - 08:47, 9 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Soane
    August they headed for Coalbrookdale, with The Iron Bridge then on to Buildwas Abbey. The journey continued down the River Severn to Bridgnorth then Ludlow...
    83 KB (11,202 words) - 21:27, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of monastic houses in Shropshire
    Priory Buildwas Abbey Chirbury Priory Church Preen Priory Donnington Wood Abbey Halston Preceptory Haughmond Abbey Lilleshall Abbey Lizard Abbey Ludlow...
    28 KB (1,242 words) - 20:00, 19 March 2022
  • Thumbnail for Shropshire
    British Library. Shrewsbury Abbey features in The Cadfael Chronicles; Brother Cadfael is a member of the community at the Abbey. The poet A. E. Housman used...
    114 KB (10,692 words) - 00:04, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kilbeggan
    Following the Conspiracy of Mellifont, the monastery was made subject to Buildwas Abbey. After its dissolution in 1539, the monastery and its extensive lands...
    12 KB (1,316 words) - 16:45, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for White Ladies Priory
    daughter of Reynold of Pulverbatch, in the process of giving land to Haughmond Abbey near Shrewsbury, mentions that she has already granted a virgate of land...
    53 KB (5,820 words) - 21:32, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Halesowen Abbey
    the abbey and Joan offered a way to relieve him of heavy debts. This was common enough in the Midlands. (See the example of Cistercian Buildwas Abbey apparently...
    222 KB (23,499 words) - 22:03, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dunbrody Abbey
    English Cistercian Abbey of Buildwas. The Abbey of Buildwas sent a lay brother to survey the land and, after an unfavorable report, Buildwas turned down the...
    11 KB (1,291 words) - 00:20, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dale Abbey (ruin)
    compelled the abbey to pay for his protection. He did launch a campaign of extortion in the Midlands that included surrounding Buildwas Abbey in Shropshire...
    225 KB (25,732 words) - 06:55, 28 August 2024
  • whom he gave lands at Sibford, and to the Belmeis family foundation of Buildwas Abbey, after having carried on protracted lawsuits with that house. Alan la...
    8 KB (1,144 words) - 08:41, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Broseley
    Forest. The area was known for mining; some of the stone used to build Buildwas Abbey was taken from Broseley and there is evidence that wooden wagonways...
    18 KB (1,995 words) - 13:35, 10 October 2024
  • of England at Westminster Abbey by William de Corbeil, Archbishop of Canterbury. Bruton Abbey, Buildwas Abbey and Byland Abbey founded, the latter in January...
    8 KB (876 words) - 04:15, 6 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Coney (engraver)
    profession. He commenced making pencil drawings of the interior of Westminster Abbey and other Gothic buildings as early as the age of fifteen; these he sold...
    4 KB (526 words) - 11:52, 7 November 2024
  • abbey, museum or other property in the care of English Heritage. List of Cadw properties (Wales) List of Historic Scotland properties List of abbeys and...
    157 KB (132 words) - 09:34, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1536
    dissolution include: Basingwerk Abbey, Bourne Abbey, Brinkburn Priory, Buildwas Abbey, Cartmel Priory, Dorchester Abbey, Dore Abbey, Haltemprice Priory, Keldholme...
    40 KB (3,984 words) - 22:50, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Baron Grey of Powis
    King Henry VIII took the lands of the Buildwas Abbey in Shropshire and in July 1537 granted the site of the abbey and all its lands in Shropshire, Staffordshire...
    16 KB (1,998 words) - 21:05, 17 May 2024
  • their capture in 1127. January – Byland Abbey is founded in England by the Congregation of Savigny. Buildwas Abbey is founded in England by Roger de Clinton...
    2 KB (9,963 words) - 05:45, 9 September 2024
  • of the priory. From 1258, the Priory was under the control of Gloucester Abbey: one of the priors of Bromfield, Henry Foliot, subsequently became Abbot...
    2 KB (218 words) - 13:37, 26 May 2020