The Abbeys of Great Britain

Author:H. Claiborne Dixon [Dixon, H. Claiborne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-05-29T16:00:00+00:00

PART III—EASTERN COUNTIES

CHAPTER VII

LINCOLNSHIRE: SUFFOLK: ESSEX

CROYLAND: THORNTON: SWINESHEAD: BURY ST EDMUNDS: WALTHAM

CROYLAND (Mitred Benedictine)

716, Founded in the isle of Croyland by Ethelbald, King of Mercia, in memory of St Guthlac—870, Church and monastery destroyed by the Danes—948, The abbey rebuilt and re-endowed by King Edred—1060, A new church begun by Abbot Ultcyter—1091, New church destroyed by fire—1113, Restored by Abbot Geoffrey, subsequently becoming a mitred abbey of great magnificence—15—, Dissolved. Annual revenue, £1082, 15s. 10d.

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