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Norton Priory is a historic site in Norton, Runcorn, ... Norton Priory offers a programme of events, exhibitions, educational courses, and outreach projects. In ...
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]
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]
The association between St Christopher and Norton Priory is probably the result of the priory's proximity to the River Mersey. The priory stood 3 miles (5 km) from the Runcorn ferry where it crossed the river near Runcorn Gap. [16] The priory had an obligation to be hospitable to travellers, [24] and the saint is the patron saint of travellers ...
Escutcheon of the Brooke baronets of Norton Priory. The Brooke baronetcy, of Norton Priory in the County of Chester, was created in the Baronetage of England on 12 December 1662 for Henry Brooke, a Colonel in the Parliamentary Army and Member of Parliament for Cheshire during the Commonwealth. [1] He was succeeded by his son, Richard, 2nd Baronet.
Norton Priory is the remains of an Augustinian abbey, and Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum documents the Primitive Methodist movement. Historic house museums are also represented in the county, including Little Moreton Hall and Lyme Park .
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 ...