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The surviving ruins of the Chapel of St. Gudwal. The first building on the Commandery site was the Hospital of St. Wulfstan, which was constructed around 1085 on the orders of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester (later Saint Wulfstan) as a hospital or almshouse (today a hospice) for the terminally ill, the destitute and pilgrims; [2] it was built around the site of the Chapel of St. Gudwal, which ...
Arms of Wylde, detail from monument in Worcester Cathedral The Commandery, Worcester, acquired by Thomas Wylde following the Dissolution of the Monasteries Thomas Wylde (bef.1508 – 1559) of The Commandery, Worcester, England, was a wealthy and prominent cloth merchant. Origins He was the son of Simon Wylde of The Ford, near Dodderhill (where Thomas later acquired the manor of Impney ...
The Commandery was excavated between 2004 and 2006, and the site of the Chapel of St. Gudwal was identified and excavated in 2006 alongside two buried skeletons discovered two years before, including a male who died around the age of fifty.
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View of the Commandery from Worcester Cathedral He was the eldest son of Robert Wylde (c. 1622 – 1689) of The Commandery and his wife Elizabeth (née Dennis). In 1696, he first married Katherine, daughter of Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 3rd Baronet and Katherine Edgecumbe.
The following is a list of the monastic houses in Worcestershire, England.. Alien houses are included, as are smaller establishments such as cells and notable monastic granges (particularly those with resident monks), and also camerae of the military orders of monks (Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller).