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    a list of the monastic houses in Staffordshire, England. Alien houses are included, as are smaller establishments such as cells and notable monastic granges...
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  • Monastic houses in England include abbeys, priories and friaries, among other monastic religious houses. The sites are listed by modern (post-1974) county...
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    Priory (extant) Friars of the Sack (approx. loc.) The following is a list of the monastic houses in Leicestershire, England. Alien houses are included, as are...
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    coordinates) Cheshire portal Christianity portal List of monastic houses in England List of monastic houses in Wales Barrow, Cheshire  founder: citing Dugdale...
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    is a list of the monastic houses in Somerset, England. Alien houses are included, as are smaller establishments such as cells and notable monastic granges...
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    a list of the monastic houses in Derbyshire, England. Alien houses are included, as are smaller establishments such as cells and notable monastic granges...
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    a list of the monastic houses in Warwickshire, England. Alien houses are included, as are smaller establishments such as cells and notable monastic granges...
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  • Friars Blackfriars Friars of the Sack Greyfriars Whitefriars St Leonard's Priory The following is a list of monastic houses in Lincolnshire, England. One...
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    civil parish in the English county of Staffordshire. The parish includes the village of Church Leigh, together with the settlements of Withington, Upper...
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  • Thumbnail for List of English abbeys, priories and friaries serving as parish churches
    is a list of former monastic buildings in England that continue in use as parish churches or chapels of ease. Nearly a thousand religious houses (abbeys...
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    Sinai Park House is a grade II* listed building in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England. Consisting of a central range with two wings the building...
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  • Monasteries Act Second Act of Dissolution List of monastic houses in England List of monastic houses in Wales List of monastic houses in Ireland Bardney Village...
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    Capability Brown (category CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list)
    for the landscaped parks of English country houses, many of which have survived reasonably intact. However, he also included in his plans "pleasure gardens"...
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  • Swythamley Hall (category Grade II listed houses in Staffordshire)
    country house near Leek, Staffordshire which has been converted into four separate residences. It is a Grade II listed building. Originally a monastic grange...
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    Augustus Pugin (category Architects of cathedrals)
    Tower), which houses the bell known as Big Ben. Pugin designed many churches in England, and some in Ireland and Australia. He was the son of Auguste Pugin...
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  • This is a list of scheduled monuments in Staffordshire, a county in England. In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a "nationally important" archaeological...
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    at Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire, England, was founded in the 7th or 9th century by St Modwen or Modwenna. It was refounded in 1003 as a Benedictine...
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    Tintern Abbey, County Wexford (category Cistercian monasteries in the Republic of Ireland)
    then in 1575 to Anthony Colclough of Staffordshire, a soldier of Henry VIII. His descendants became the Colclough Baronets. The final member of the Colclough...
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    Black Ladies Priory (category Monasteries in Staffordshire)
    a house of Benedictine nuns, located about 4 km west of Brewood in Staffordshire, on the northern edge of the hamlet of Kiddemore Green. Founded in the...
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    Robert in Shropshire and Staffordshire. He also took Fulchred's side in a variety of disputes with officials of the royal forests in Shropshire and reminded...
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  • List of abbeys and priories List of castles List of Conservation topics List of historic houses List of museums List of National Trust properties in England...
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  • and the 13th-century churches of St George and St Nicholas (UNESCO World Heritage Site) Mount Athos. Orthodox monastic centre. Tinos. Patmos. Traditionally...
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    Lapley (category Villages in Staffordshire)
    civil parish, now in the parish of Lapley, Stretton and Wheaton Aston, in the South Staffordshire district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. It is...
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    White Ladies Priory (category Monasteries of Canonesses Regular)
    priory by Hugh de Beumeys. The priory, like other monastic houses, was not immune from the changes in the economic climate and generally sought to adjust...
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  • Hulton Abbey (category Monasteries in Staffordshire)
    Audley in the early 13th century. Throughout its life, the abbey was relatively small and poor, with one of the lowest incomes of all Staffordshire religious...
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    Buildwas Abbey (category Grade I listed buildings in Shropshire)
    still part of the Savigniac community, as it committed all Savigniac houses to pray for Philip, Matilda and their family. The Savigniac houses were all...
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  • National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 11 March 2008. "Houses of Austin canons: Priory of St Mary of Merton". A History of the County of Surrey: Volume...
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    John Giffard (died 1556) (category High Sheriffs of Staffordshire)
    1465-13 November 1556), of Chillington in Brewood, was a soldier, courtier, member of the English Parliament and Staffordshire landowner, who made his...
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    Basin and is navigable for 38 miles (61 km) to Fradley Junction in Staffordshire. Coventry in a linguistic sense looks both ways, towards both the 'West'...
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    household was the centre of English learning during his reign, and it laid the foundation for the Benedictine monastic reform later in the century. No other...
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