Monks Kirby is a village and civil parish in north-eastern Warwickshire, England. The population of the parish is 445.[1] Monks Kirby is located around one mile east of the Fosse Way, around 8 miles north-west of Rugby, seven miles north-east of Coventry and six miles west of Lutterworth. Administratively it forms part of the borough of Rugby. One of the largest and most important villages in this part of Warwickshire in the Anglo-Saxon and later medieval period, the village continued to be a local administrative centre into the early 20th century.
The parish boundaries include two important landed estates: Newnham Paddox, seat of the family of the Earls of Denbigh since the 15th century and Newbold Revel, home of the medieval writer Sir Thomas Malory. Monks Kirby is today a small, attractive, wealthy commuter village with many residents working in Coventry, Birmingham, Leicester and London. Monks Kirby is dominated by the church of St Edith, a site of Christian worship since at least the 10th century and which functioned as a Priory in the Middle Ages. Reflecting its medieval aristocratic and ecclesiastical importance, Monks Kirby is the largest historic parish in Warwickshire and St Edith's one of the largest parish churches in the county.[nb 1]
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MonksKirby is a village and civil parish in north-eastern Warwickshire, England. The population of the parish is 445. MonksKirby is located around one...
MonksKirby Priory was a Benedictine priory established in 1077 in MonksKirby, Warwickshire, England. The priory was suppressed in 1415 when its estates...
Peerage of Ireland. The family seat is Newnham Paddox, in the parish of MonksKirby, Warwickshire. The eighth earl converted to Roman Catholicism during...
settlements include Binley Woods, Brinklow. Dunchurch, Long Lawford, MonksKirby, Wolston, Wolvey and the new large development of Houlton. It includes...
a pity that he lives." Chambers comments, "Surely the Sir Thomas of MonksKirby [the parish in which Malory of Newbold Revel lived] could not have written...
The MonksKirby Rural District was a rural district of Warwickshire between 1894 and 1932, based on the part of the Lutterworth Rural Sanitary District...
altered. The district was expanded to include the whole of the abolished MonksKirby Rural District, parts of the abolished Foleshill Rural District and parts...
to the Cistercian monks by Richard de Camville, of Didleton Castle. They accepted the gift, and sent out an advance party of monks, who, living in temporary...
Newbold Revel estate and house formed a significant part of the parish of MonksKirby. Today the country house is in the modern parish of Stretton-under-Fosse...
preceded his birth by several hundred years. The double monastery of Celtic monks and nuns was home (614–680) to the great Northumbrian poet Cædmon. In 664...
suppression of the Abbey (May 1538), there were seventeen monks in residence. The displaced monks of Battle Abbey were provided with pensions, including...
girls and 22 boys. 42 Elizabeth and John Mott 1720 Elizabeth Mott of MonksKirby, Warwickshire, married in 1676 and produced 42 live-born children. She...
by Henry VIII at the dissolution of the monasteries, and the surviving monks pensioned. The buildings were rapidly disassembled for their building materials...
founded by King Stephen and his wife Matilda of Boulogne in 1148. A party of monks from Bermondsey Abbey provided the nucleus and the first abbot. At the Dissolution...
in the Borough of Rugby, Warwickshire, England, part of the parish of MonksKirby. It is located near the towns of Rugby and Lutterworth. The hamlet is...
village of Wolvey, Copston Magna was historically part of the parish of MonksKirby, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) to the south. Copston is located close to the ancient...
small ledges for monks to perch on during services, often decorated with varied and humorous carvings. Many rooms used by the monks have been repurposed...
by Evesham Abbey, from whence it had a prior or warden who was an Evesham monk. In 1536 its ownership was transferred to Thomas Cromwell. Little now remains...
165. Pugh, R.B.; Crittall, Elizabeth, eds. (1956). "House of Benedictine monks: Abbey of Malmesbury". A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 3. Victoria...
destruction, or at least the loss of all records. It is possible that some monks provided a continuity through to its refoundation in 970, under a Benedictine...
decline. Only 22 new monks were tonsured between 1500 and 1539, and at the time of the abbey's dissolution in 1539, there were only 10 monks in residence. The...
foundation, the abbey was established by a party of monks from Cluny Abbey in Burgundy, together with monks from the Cluniac priory of St Pancras at Lewes...
Anglo-Saxon, Berhtwald, but British monks remained for many years. King Ine of Wessex enriched the endowment of the community of monks established at Glastonbury...
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