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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.
In this list of museums in Cheshire, England, museums are defined as institutions (including non-profit organisations, government entities and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific or historical interest, and that make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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 ...
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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 ...
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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: Poulton Abbey: Savignac monks — from Combermere site granted to Combermere 1146; Cistercian monks orders merged 17 September 1147; founded 1153 by Robert, butler to Ranulf II, Earl of Chester;
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]