The tranquil ruins of medieval Wenlock Priory stand in a garden setting on the fringe of beautiful Much Wenlock. An Anglo-Saxon monastery was founded here in about 680 by King Merewalh of Mercia,whose abbess daughter Milburge was hailed as a saint. H...
The White Ladies Priory remains of a late 12th-century church of a small priory of Augustinian canonesses, surrounded by picturesque woodland....
Shrewsbury Abbey is full of history.
In 1283 the first English Parliament in which the Commons had a legal share took place in the Abbey Chapter House, and in 1398 Richard II summoned the Great Parliament in the Abbey.
The Abbey was finally su...
Haughmond Abbey are now the extensive remains of an Augustinian abbey, including its abbots' quarters, refectory and cloister. The substantially surviving chapter house has a frontage richly bedecked with 12th and 14th century carving and statuary, ...
The founding community was brought to Lilleshall Abbey from Dorchester Abbey in Oxfordshire and, as at Dorchester, for a time the canons followed the specific customs and daily religious observance of the important Augustinian monastery at Arrouaise ...
The extensive ruins of a Cistercian abbey, including much of its fine 12th-century church. In a woodland setting beside the River Severn, not far from the Iron Bridge....
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