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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.
National Waterways Museum: Ellesmere Port: Transport: Canal boats, history of the canals [3] Nether Alderley Mill: Nether Alderley: Mill: Victorian water-powered corn mill; operated by the National Trust [31] Norton Priory Museum: Runcorn: Religious: 12–16th-century abbey and 18th-century country house with ruins, archaeological artifacts and ...
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.
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The statue has been dated on stylistic grounds to have been produced between 1375 and 1400. [5] The status of the foundation at Norton was raised from that of a priory to a mitred abbey [6] in 1391, and it has been suggested by J. Patrick Greene, the director of the excavations in the 1970s and 1980s, that the statue may have been commissioned as a result of this.
In the Domesday Book of 1086, Norton (spelt as Nortune) was held as two manors. [1] The major event in the early history of the settlement came in 1134 when William fitz William, the third Baron of Halton, moved a community of canons from a site near Runcorn Gap to a site near the village to found Norton Priory. [2]
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 ...