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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.
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 .
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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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.
The site is now a museum which consists of the remains of the priory, including a Norman undercroft with a doorway of 1180 and a Victorian copy, and two blind Norman arcades. It is a scheduled monument and is managed by the Norton Priory Museum Trust.
The Norton Museum of Art is at 1450 S. Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach. For more information, go to www.norton.org or call 561-832-5196. Kristina Webb is a reporter for Palm Beach Daily News ...
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 ...