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The Westminster Arms is a public house in the City of Westminster, London, England. It is located on Storey's Gate, about 0.2 miles (0.32 km) west of the Palace of Westminster and near Westminster Abbey. [1] It is one of six local pubs containing a division bell, [2] used to alert members of parliament that a vote will soon be taken in ...
He wears a tabard showing attributed arms of: Azure, a lion rampant guardant or. Underneath below his wife is shown a shield of: quarterly 1 & 4: Azure, a lion rampant guardant or; 2&3: Gules a cross or (Oddo and Doddo, Dukes of Mercia, Saxon founders of Tewkesbury Abbey [1])impaling: Gules, a lion rampant or. Bodleian Library Manuscript: Top.
The Augustinian priory was founded in the 1120s by Walter l'Espec, lord of nearby Helmsley, who also built Rievaulx Abbey. The priory was surrendered in 8 December 1539 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Legend has it that Kirkham was founded in remembrance of l'Espec's only son who had died nearby as a consequence of his horse being ...
Pendant fan vault of Henry VII's chapel at Westminster Abbey. The Henry VII Chapel is best known for its combination of pendant fan vault ceiling.Andrew Reynolds refers to the vault as “the most perfect example of a pendant fan vault, the most ambitious kind of vaulting current in the perpendicular period.” [11] Notably, this ceiling was also the first to combine pendants with fan vaulting.
Bolton Priory, whose full title is The Priory Church of St Mary and St Cuthbert, Bolton Abbey, is a Grade I listed [3] parish church of the Church of England in the village of Bolton Abbey, within the Yorkshire Dales National Park in North Yorkshire, England.
Walden Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Saffron Walden, Essex, England, founded by Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex, between 1136 and 1143. Originally a priory, it was elevated to the status of an abbey in 1190. Soon after its founding, Earl Geoffrey was arrested by King Stephen. When released on surrender of his castles, the earl ...
Playing into Duttons' hands was the gross undervaluation of the abbey's assets as reported to the royal commissioners of the Valor Ecclesiasticus of 1535; as a result of which the net annual income of the abbey was recorded, falsely, as falling below the £200 (equivalent to £150,000 in 2023) [37] threshold that would subsequently be chosen ...
The prior, Fulk Gaston, absconded to the mother Abbey with the church silver. By the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries the Priory had only the prior and four monks. Due to the close connections between the Lords of Abergavenny and the Tudor dynasty the priory was spared and became the parish church. [4]