Pershore Abbey information

Pershore Abbey, at Pershore in Worcestershire, was an Anglo-Saxon abbey and is now an Anglican parish church, the Church of the Holy Cross. The foundation...

2011 census, the population was 7,125. The town is best known for Pershore Abbey. Pershore is situated 6 miles (10 km) west of Evesham and 6 miles (10 km)...

The account by Osbert was commissioned in c. 1120 by the monks of Pershore Abbey in Worcestershire because they wanted the accounts they possessed of...

without heirs in 1056, Edward seized lands which Odda had granted to Pershore Abbey and gave them to his Westminster foundation; historian Ann Williams...

Caldey and moved into Abbey House, next to Pershore Abbey, Worcestershire. This was a house which had belonged to Caldey Abbey, but was returned in 1913...

Peter's Basilica. Prince Oswald, brother of King Osric of Hwicce, founds Pershore Abbey in Worcestershire (approximate date). Othmar, Swiss abbot (approximate...

died there. He had a lifelong association with Pershore Abbey. William de Harvington, Abbot of Pershore 1307-40, was his cousin, and Adam in a lawsuit...

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in compensation. Odda became a monk late in life. He was buried at Pershore Abbey. Odda perhaps first appears in the record as a charter witness in 1013...

the Norman Conquest, the rest of the county was still held by the Abbeys of Pershore and Evesham, the Bishop of Worcester and Priory. The first Norman...

central-plan structure. When churches have only one transept, as at Pershore Abbey, there is generally a historical disaster, fire, war or funding problem...

confirmed that four manses (priests’ houses) there belonged to Pershore Abbey. The Abbey owned most of the land in the area. Place-names like Abbottswood...

towns are Evesham and Droitwich Spa; the council is based in the town of Pershore. The district also includes numerous villages and surrounding rural areas...

Westminster Abbey, 1848–78 Dorchester Abbey, 1858, 1862, 1874 King's College, Cambridge, 1859–63, 1875 Bath Abbey, 1860–77 Pershore Abbey, 1861–64, 1867...

the Reformation, and virtually every town, of any size, had at least one abbey, priory, convent or friary in it. (Often many small houses of monks, nuns...

Octagonal tower top, Decorated carvings throughout. Pershore, Worcestershire Pershore Abbey Former abbey restored by George Gilbert Scott Plymouth, Devon...

Emma held it and Dafydd gave it, with Emma's consent, to the abbot of Pershore Abbey. The abbot returned the advowson to King John when he recovered the...

The first Benedictine abbey was followed by a Savignac, later Cistercian, abbey constructed on the site of the current abbey in 1134. The monastery was...

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exception of a small Anglican remnant, which moved into Abbey House at Pershore Abbey, Worcestershire. The new community was formally established in May 1914...

the 2021 spring lockdown, filmed largely in her Pershore house as well as the nearby Pershore Abbey. The opening track, "Levitate", originally called...