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Grace Dieu Manor then became a Catholic school. [8] The school was part of the educational trust of the Rosminian order. In 1972 the family moved to Quenby Hall, but, following the collapse of the family cheese-making business, the family offered the Hall for sale. [9] Grace Dieu Manor School closed in 2020. In 2022 the 66-acre site was sold to ...
A conservation project on the remains was completed in 2005. It is managed by the Friends of Grace Dieu Priory, who work together with the Grace Dieu Priory Trust and the Grace Dieu Estate to ensure it stays open to members of the public. [10] In 2024 the Rosminian Order transferred ownership to the Grace Dieu Priory Trust for a nominal sum. [11]
She entered within five years thereafter upon the estate of Grace Dieu in Leicestershire, which Henry, Earl of Huntingdon, to whom in 1553 it had been granted by the king, released to her. By this lady, Elizabeth Hastings, daughter of Sir William Hastings, [ 2 ] a younger son of William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings , Beaumont had had two sons.
Due to the residency at Grace Dieu Manor of a zealous and wealthy convert to Roman Catholicism, Ambrose de Lisle, Whitwick became an important centre of the Roman Catholic revival. [ 23 ] It was due to De Lisle that a Cistercian monastery , Mount St. Bernard Abbey , was established within the parish in 1835, and a church (designed by Pugin ...
The Beaumont Baronetcy, of Grace Dieu in the County of Leicester, was created in the Baronetage of England on 31 January 1627 for the poet John Beaumont of Grace Dieu Manor. [3] He was the son of Francis Beaumont , Member of Parliament for Aldborough , a descendant of Thomas Beaumont, son of Sir Thomas Beaumont (d. 1457), younger son of John ...
Grace-Dieu (/ ˌ ɡ r eɪ s ˈ dj uː /) [1] is a placename situated in Leicestershire, England. Its toponymy , meaning "Grace (of) God" in French, is from nearby Grace Dieu Priory , which was established in the 13th century but was left in disrepair after the dissolution of the monasteries by King Henry VIII .
Brooksby was the eldest daughter and second child of William Vaux, 3rd Baron Vaux of Harrowden, and his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of John Beaumont of Grace Dieu, Leicester. [1] She married Edward Brokesby, Esq., of Sholdby, Leicester. In 1605 she and Vaux attended an illegal pilgrimage of Catholic recusants to Holywell. She and her sister ...
Sir Patrick Barnewall or Barnwall (died 1622), was the eldest son of Sir Christopher Barnewall of Turvey House, Grace Dieu Abbey, and Fieldston.Christopher in turn was the son of the elder Sir Patrick Barnewall, who in 1534 was made Serjeant-at-law (Ireland) and Solicitor-General for Ireland, and in 1550 became Master of the Rolls in Ireland.