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Newstead Abbey, in Nottinghamshire, England, was formerly an Augustinian priory. Converted to a domestic home following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it is now ...
The most important building in the parish is Newstead Abbey, which is listed, together with a variety of structures in its gardens and grounds. The other listed buildings consist of a railway bridge, two farmhouses, and a war memorial.
The following is a list of the monastic houses in Nottinghamshire, 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).
Newstead Abbey, a 12th-century Grade I listed building and ancestral home of Lord Byron, although in Newstead parish is accessed from Ravenshead. After the death of Thomas Becket, King Henry II supposedly to make up for this terrible deed gave the Canons of the Order of St Augustine the land at Ravenshead where they set up a priory, the walls of which can still be seen today.
Newstead is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England in the borough of Gedling. [1] It is situated between the city of Nottingham and the towns of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Sutton-in-Ashfield and Hucknall. A former coal mining village, and previously called Newstead Colliery Village. Lord Byron, the poet, lived at nearby Newstead Abbey.
He purchased Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire from Thomas Wildman, a deal completed in 1861, for £147,000. [4] Another potential purchaser had been Queen Victoria . He moved his family into the Abbey, and set about improvements, installing heating and gas lighting and also redecorating the old chapel.
In the 1700s large areas of Sherwood crown land were sold to private owners who built the estates of Thoresby Hall, Rufford Abbey, the former Clumber House Clumber Park, Welbeck Abbey and Worksop Manor. These estates became known as the Dukeries. Newstead Abbey was also built whilst in private ownership. [6] King John's Palace
Boatswain's Monument at Newstead Abbey A Landseer dog, the breed Byron eulogized, painted by Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802–1873 "Epitaph to a Dog" (also sometimes referred to as "Inscription on the Monument to a Newfoundland Dog") is a poem by the British poet Lord Byron.