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    St Oswald's Priory was founded by Æthelflæd, daughter of Alfred the Great, and her husband Æthelred, ealdorman of Mercia, in the late 880s or the 890s...
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    daughter of Alfred the Great, St Oswald's relics were translated to a new minster in Gloucester, which was renamed St Oswald's Priory in his honour. Æthelflæd...
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    Æthelflæd (category Burials at St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester)
    Priory of St Oswald at Gloucester. York, UK: Council for British Archaeology. pp. 1–29. ISBN 978-1-872414-94-2. Heighway, Carolyn (2001). "Gloucester...
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    Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians (category Burials at St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester)
    martyr, St Oswald, from Bardney in Lincolnshire. The bones were translated to the new Gloucester minster, which was renamed St Oswald's Priory in his honour...
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    under Edge Friary Blackfriars Greyfriars Whitefriars Gloucester Cathedral Abbey St. Oswald's Priory The following is a list of the monastic houses in Gloucestershire...
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    monastic establishments, including St Peter's Abbey, founded in 679 (later Gloucester Cathedral); the nearby St Oswald's Priory, founded in the 880s or 890s;...
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    from 1304, in 925 Æthelstan gave a charter of privileges to St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester, where his aunt and uncle were buried, "according to a pact...
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    Secunda Priory was a house of Augustinian canons in the parish of Hempsted, Gloucestershire, England, situated about 1/2 a mile south-west of Gloucester Castle...
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    "Prinidge/Prinnish") (IPA: /ˈprɪnɪdʒ/) is a Roman Catholic monastery in the Vale of Gloucester in the Diocese of Clifton, near the village of Cranham. It belongs to...
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    benefice, north of Winchcombe, and occasional services are held. Ashridge Priory, Hertfordshire which also received a relic of the Holy Blood Hailes Castle...
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    They are "perhaps, dimly" evident in the cross shaft from St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester (illustrated above right). In general the traces of these styles...
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    works in Gloucester Cathedral The history of the early church is made more complicated by its intermingling with that of St Oswald's Priory. This foundation...
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    Tewkesbury Abbey (category Diocese of Gloucester)
    England. Tewkesbury had been a centre for worship since the 7th century. A priory was established there in the 10th century. The present building was started...
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    in response to increased viking raids, Oswald's bones were translated to the new St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester. Near the Abbey is the site of the Deserted...
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    response to increased Viking raids, Oswald's bones were translated to the new St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester. Oswald of Northumbria Æthelred of Mercia Osthryth...
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  • liberty outside the town. St. Oswald's parish, as defined in the mid 14th century, comprised the northern suburb next to the priory, Brook Street, the house...
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    buildings List of monastic houses in Gloucestershire List of abbeys and priories in England The Winchcombe Psalter, created in Winchcombe in Gloucestershire...
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    monasteries of Westbury Priory, Pershore Abbey, and Evesham Abbey. It is also possible that monasteries were established in Gloucester and Deerhurst, but evidence...
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  • Poulton Priory or the Priory of St Mary was a Gilbertine priory in Poulton, Gloucestershire, England. It was founded as a chantry chapel in 1337 by Sir...
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    Blackfriars, Gloucester, England, founded about 1239, is one of the most complete surviving Dominican black friaries in England. Now owned by English Heritage...
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  • Minchinhampton Priory was a priory in Gloucestershire, England. After the Norman Conquest the manor of Minchinhampton was granted to the Benedictine nuns...
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  • Carolyn M. Heighway (category People from Gloucester)
    Street, Gloucester: The Roman Levels" by Carolyn M. Heighway, Et al. in Britannia, Vol. 11 (1980), pp. 73–114. "The Roman Tilery at St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester"...
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  • Online: A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2, ed. William Page (London, 1907), p. 102: "Alien houses: The priory of Beckford" (Victoria County History)...
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    Alfred the Great) of the Mercians found the Priory of St. Oswald in Gloucester (probably originally dedicated to St. Peter). Ohthere of Hålogaland, a Norse...
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    Beckford Priory Cirencester Abbey St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester Horsley Priory Lechlade Priory Leonard Stanley Priory Llanthony Secunda Priory Benedictine...
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    the late 11th century. The church was initially a chapel of St Oswald's Priory in Gloucester. The nave and south porch of the church were in Norman style...
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  • the County of Gloucester: Volume 11 (pp. 177-179)". british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 June 2014. "Houses of Augustinian canons - The priory of Horsley |...
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    In 1146, the priory was appropriated by Gloucester Abbey and became a Benedictine cell until its dissolution in September 1538. The priory church, being...
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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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    of north-eastern France. The monks adopted St Lawrence as their patron saint. In 1792, Dieulouard Priory was closed and the monks were expelled from...
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