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St Mary's Abbey was signed over to King Henry VIII on 15 April 1538 [2] with Abbot Simon Jekys receiving a handsome annual pension of £100 (the prior, John Lister, only received a pension of £8 with the remaining monks receiving between £5 and £7). The abbey was then dismantled at part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Kenilworth Castle The ruins of the gatehouse of Kenilworth Abbey. A settlement existed at Kenilworth by the time of the 1086 Domesday Book, which records it as Chinewrde. [2] Geoffrey de Clinton (died 1134) initiated the building of an Augustinian priory in 1122, [3] which coincided with his initiation of Kenilworth Castle. [4]
St Nicholas Church, Kenilworth. St Nicholas Church is a Church of England parish church in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England. The church is built of local red sandstones. The main phases of building are Decorated Gothic, Perpendicular Gothic and a Gothic Revival Victorian restoration of 1864. It is a Grade I listed building.
Abbey Fields. Abbey Fields is a 68-acre (28 ha) park that is found in the centre of Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England. The park was once farmland belonging to St Mary's Abbey, which was dissolved in the middle of the sixteenth century and is now ruined. St Nicholas Church, with origins from the twelfth century, remains in the park.
New red sandstone. Battles/wars. Siege of Kenilworth (great siege of 1266) Kenilworth Castle is a castle in the town of Kenilworth in Warwickshire, England, managed by English Heritage; much of it is in ruins. The castle was founded after the Norman Conquest of 1066; with development through to the Tudor period.
Stoneleigh Abbey. Coordinates: 52°20′19″N 1°32′01″W. Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire. Stoneleigh Abbey is an English country house and estate situated south of Coventry. Nearby is the village of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire. The Abbey itself is a Grade I listed building. [1]
The Sixth Form is where students take A level education. Kenilworth students can take a wide range of subjects providing they have the correct GCSEs usually 5 A* to C including English and Mathematics. The majority of Sixth Form students will move onto some form of Further Education (usually university) after leaving the Sixth Form.
Siege of Kenilworth. The siege of Kenilworth (21 June – December 1266), also known as the great siege of 1266, was a six-month siege of Kenilworth Castle and a battle of the Second Barons' War. The siege was a part of an English civil war fought from 1264 to 1267 by the forces of Simon de Montfort against the Royalist forces led by Prince ...