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The Development Corporation decided to create a museum on the site, and in 1975 Norton Priory Museum Trust was established. [63] In 1989 Greene published his book about the excavations entitled Norton Priory: The Archaeology of a Medieval Religious House. Further work has been carried out, recording and analysing the archaeological findings.
Norman doorway in the undercroft of Norton Priory, built in local red sandstone Runcorn is an industrial town in Halton, Cheshire, England, on the south bank of the River Mersey where it narrows at Runcorn Gap. In the town are the 61 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings in the current urban area of Runcorn, including the districts ...
The statue has been dated on stylistic grounds to have been produced between 1375 and 1400. [5] The status of the foundation at Norton was raised from that of a priory to a mitred abbey [6] in 1391, and it has been suggested by J. Patrick Greene, the director of the excavations in the 1970s and 1980s, that the statue may have been commissioned as a result of this.
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now in ownership of Norton Priory Museum Trust open to public as a museum The Priory Church of Saint Mary at Norton _____ Norton Abbey [27] [28] Greene, pp. 2–3, 65–72. Starkey, pp. 9, 35–40. Poulton Abbey: Savignac monks — from Combermere
In the Domesday Book of 1086, Norton (spelt as Nortune) was held as two manors. [1] The major event in the early history of the settlement came in 1134 when William fitz William, the third Baron of Halton, moved a community of canons from a site near Runcorn Gap to a site near the village to found Norton Priory. [2]
Red Lodge, is in Manor Farm Road, Norton, Runcorn, Cheshire, England. Built originally as a lodge at the entrance to the estate of Norton Priory , it was later converted into a private house. The building is in Tudor Revival style, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building .
Norton Priory is the former rectory of St Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton, West Sussex. [1] The building is claimed to be of mediaeval origin, but so altered that much of the history of its construction is speculation. [2] Some parts are from the 17th century, while a fireplace in the west wing bears the inscription "WL 1539". [2]