Authorized Form of Name | Winchcombe Abbey; c. 787-1539; Benedictine religious house |
Corporate Name | Winchcombe Abbey |
TypeOfEntity | Corporate |
Dates | c. 787-1539 |
Code | GB/109/12031 |
Epithet | Benedictine religious house |
DatesAndPlaces | Possibly founded as a nunnery c. 787; refounded for monks c. 798; refounded for Benedictine monks after a period of secularisation c. 972; dissolved in 1539 |
Relationships | Dependency: Charlton Abbots Hospital (for leprous monks) |
Source | Knowles and Hadcock, Medieval Religious Houses: England and Wales, (1953) p. 81. |
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OrderNo | Title | Date | Link |
CM XI/56 | Return by Richard Ancelmus [?Richard Kidderminster], Abbot of Winchcombe, to Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, of the writ of inhibition during the metropolitical visitation. | [c. 1531] | CM/11/56 |
MS 854 | WINCHCOMBE ABBEY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE | 16th century | MSS/854 |
MS 585 pag. 701 | Collections by the same gentleman [Mr. William Hopkins], from the same sources [Registers of the See of Worcester], respecting the Abbots of Glocester [sic], Cirencester, Winchelcombe, Bristol, and Tewksbury. | | MSS/585/206 |
MS 589 | Historia et Collectiones de Abbatibus Angliae Parlamentariis, | | MSS/589/2 |