Amesbury Abbey was a Benedictine abbey of women at Amesbury in Wiltshire, England, founded by Queen Ælfthryth in about the year 979 on what may have been the site of an earlier monastery. The abbey was dissolved in 1177 by Henry II, who founded in its place a house of the Order of Fontevraud, known as Amesbury Priory.
The name Amesbury Abbey is now used by a nearby Grade I listed country house built in the 1830s, currently a nursing home.
AmesburyAbbey was a Benedictine abbey of women at Amesbury in Wiltshire, England, founded by Queen Ælfthryth in about the year 979 on what may have been...
Amesbury before being disinterred and translated to Glastonbury Abbey to lie beside her husband, King Arthur. The tradition of Guinevere's Amesbury burial...
Anjou (1149–1154) Audeburge of Hautes-Bruyères (1155–1180) She founded AmesburyAbbey, near Stonehenge in England, in 1177 Gilles or Gillette (1180–1189)...
1177 to replace the earlier AmesburyAbbey, a Saxon foundation established about the year 979. The Anglo-Norman Amesbury Priory was disbanded at the Dissolution...
Crittall, Elizabeth, eds. (1956). "Houses of Benedictine nuns: Abbey, later priory, of Amesbury". A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 3. Victoria...
Nuneaton, and given the royal connections of its sister house at Amesbury, he chose Amesbury Priory as the monastery to which Guinevere retires as "abbas...
Chiswick House, Kew Gardens, Wimpole Hall, Briggens House in Essex, and AmesburyAbbey in Wiltshire. However, Bridgeman perhaps remains best known for his...
structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each...
daughter of Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile. She was a nun at Amesbury Priory, but lived very comfortably thanks to a generous allowance from...
10th-century Breton saint who, in England, was venerated in Cornwall and at AmesburyAbbey, Wiltshire, which claimed some of his relics. Melor had a popular cult...
1236 20 January 1236 16 November 1272 Husband's death 24 June 1291 AmesburyAbbey Henry III Eleanor of Castile Ferdinand III of Castile Joan, Countess...
recorded land held by St Mary's Abbey, Winchester at Caninge, with 58 households and a mill; and land held by AmesburyAbbey at Allentone, with 32 households...
Domesday Book recorded 39 households at Bulford, within an estate of AmesburyAbbey. The name is derived from the Old English bulut ieg ford meaning 'ragged...
Domesday Book recorded 37 households at Wintreburne, and land held by AmesburyAbbey. The name Winterbourne refers to seasonal streams in the area, which...
basements and attics. The south front was based on John Webb's 1661 AmesburyAbbey, where Benson had been a tenant. The original design for the house was...
was succeeded by his younger brother, the fifth Baronet. Most of the AmesburyAbbey estate in Wiltshire was sold the same year. The fifth Baronet died unmarried...
more were erected: at Prior Park, Bath; Hagley, Worcestershire; and AmesburyAbbey. Empress Catherine the Great commissioned another copy, known as the...
consider measures to prevent further erosion from the number of visitors. AmesburyAbbey, Wiltshire. Dates uncertain, but appears to be contemporary with his...
the manor of Wigley, and the rent of tenants at Cadnam was paid to AmesburyAbbey until the Dissolution. Land at Cadnam and Winsor was granted with the...
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