Malmesbury Abbey, at Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England, is a former Benedictine abbey dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul. It was one of the few English...
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of an Iron Age fort, in the early medieval period, Malmesbury became the site of Malmesbury Abbey, a monastery famed for its learning. It was later home...
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and his adult life as a monk at Malmesbury Abbey in Wiltshire. Though the education William received at Malmesbury Abbey included a smattering of logic...
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early attempt at a gliding flight using wings. Eilmer was a monk of Malmesbury Abbey who wrote on astrology. All that is known of him is from the Gesta...
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market town of Malmesbury, Wiltshire. The hotel is in the centre of the town, immediately next to the 12th-century remains of Malmesbury Abbey. The Old Bell...
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Aldhelm (redirect from Aldhelm of Malmesbury)
Latin: Aldhelmus Malmesberiensis) (c. 639 – 25 May 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey, Bishop of Sherborne, and a writer and scholar of Latin poetry, was...
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Hannah Twynnoy (category People from Malmesbury)
White Lyon". Her gravestone survives in a corner of the churchyard of Malmesbury Abbey, with a memorial poem alluding to her death. A memorial plaque with...
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Abbey House Gardens is a country house garden in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England, covering 5 acres (2.0 ha). The garden was transformed in the 1990s by...
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Æthelstan (category Malmesbury Abbey)
associated with opposition to his rule. By his own wish, he was buried at Malmesbury Abbey in Wiltshire, where he had buried his cousins who died at Brunanburh...
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reign is the first for which there is evidence of royal priests, and Malmesbury Abbey regarded him as an important benefactor, who is said to have been the...
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Cole Park (category Malmesbury Abbey)
the Abbey of Malmesbury. William of Colerne was the abbot from 1260 to 1296, from whom the name Cole Park may derive.[citation needed] The abbey had a...
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fighting in the Battle of Brunanburh in 937, and who were buried in Malmesbury Abbey, at the behest of their cousin King Æthelstan, who was buried there...
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Edmund Ironside (category Burials at Glastonbury Abbey)
ordered that Sigeferth's widow, Ealdgyth, be seized and brought to Malmesbury Abbey, but Edmund seized and married her in defiance of his father, probably...
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a town in Australia Malmesbury (UK Parliament constituency), a former parliamentary borough Malmesbury Abbey, Benedictine abbey in Wiltshire, England...
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widow, whose name the Chronicle does not record, should be detained at Malmesbury Abbey. The chronicle of John of Worcester calls her Ealdgyth. In the late...
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geography encyclopedia called Geographica Universalis was compiled at Malmesbury Abbey in England, which was in turn used as a source for one of the most...
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A Bible handwritten in Latin, on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. This Bible was transcribed in Belgium in 1407 for reading aloud in a...
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Charlton Park, Wiltshire (category Malmesbury)
of the town of Malmesbury. Charlton Park House is a Grade I listed building and a leading example of the prodigy house. Malmesbury Abbey held Charlton...
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was originally 70 m (230 ft) tall, later raised to 92 m (302 ft). Malmesbury Abbey was built in 1180 and reached a height of 131 m (430 ft). The world's...
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to St Aldhelm who lived in Malmesbury and was the abbot at nearby Malmesbury Abbey. The attached presbytery is a Grade II listed building. St Aldhelm's...
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A handwritten Bible in Latin, on display at Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England...
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Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England...
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aisle. This became a standard feature of later Romanesque and Gothic large abbey and cathedral churches. Sometimes another gallery set into the wall space...
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Safari Park Ludgershall Castle Lydiard Park & House, West Swindon Malmesbury Abbey Maud Heath's Causeway, near Chippenham Mompesson House, Salisbury Old...
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passage above, at the base of the clerestory windows. Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England Malmesbury Abbey, showing the location of the triforium. It lies between...
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found its way to Malmesbury Abbey; another was presented to a Spanish princess about 1160; and again another was taken to Andechs Abbey in Germany in the...
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Dobunnorum (Cirencester). Cirencester Abbey was founded as an Augustinian monastery in 1117, and Malmesbury Abbey was one of the few English houses with...
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Lighthouse Egypt Alexandria 122 m (400 ft) 1180 1240 Malmesbury Abbey Tower United Kingdom Malmesbury 131.3 m (431 ft) 1240 1311 Tower of Old St Paul's...
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Brinkworth Manor was given to Malmesbury Abbey by the nobleman Leofsige, sometime before the Domesday Book survey of 1086. The abbey held the land until the...
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and Ralph say that the spot lay in between two pyramids in the abbey. William of Malmesbury does not refer to Arthur's tomb but elaborates on the pyramids...
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