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Romsey Abbey has a traditional choir of boy choristers and a back row of adult altos, tenors and basses drawn from the local area. They also have a choir of girls, a senior girls choir, a training choir of youngsters and a consort of voluntary singers and members of the congregation who sing when the choirs are on holiday.
Romsey Abbey is a 12th-century abbey built in the Norman style, probably by Henry of Blois, upon an earlier Saxon church dating back to the 10th century. Elements of the old Saxon church remain, including an exposed north transept and a 10th-century rood . [ 51 ]
On 20 October 1979 at Romsey Abbey, she married Lord Romsey, son and heir of the 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma and the 7th Lord Brabourne.The groom's second cousin, Charles, Prince of Wales (later King Charles III), served as best man.
Mærwynn was the founding abbess of the reconsecrated Abbey of Romsey, and there is some certainty that she was appointed to the position by King Edgar the Peaceable on Christmas in 974. [5] While medieval legend had it that she was born in Ireland and educated by St. Patrick , historical understanding that five centuries separate them ...
At some time before 1086, Cristina returned to England and entered the nunnery at Romsey Abbey, where she tutored her nieces Edith and Mary. [1] Edith gave testimony to a conclave of bishops summoned by Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury to determine whether Edith could lawfully marry Henry I of England.
Mountbatten's tomb in Romsey Abbey. From the abbey, the coffin was taken to Waterloo Station on a Land Rover 101 Forward Control of the Life Guards, a regiment of which Mountbatten had been colonel, led by six armoured reconnaissance cars. From Waterloo, his coffin was taken by special train to Romsey, Hampshire, near Broadlands, Mountbatten's ...
Romsey Abbey + nuns probably founded c.907 by Edward the Elder or by Ethelwold, Saxon nobleman Benedictine nuns refounded 967 by King Edgar; dissolved 1539; granted to John Bellow and R. Pigot 1546/7; church now in parochial use The Abbey Church of Saint Mary and Saint Elfleda, Romsey _____ Rumesey Abbey [38] [39] [40
Saint Æthelflæda of Romsey (born c. 962) was an early Abbess of Romsey Abbey in the reign of King Edgar. Her identity is obscure, though in later stories she was said to be the daughter of a tenth-century nobleman. [1] She has been distinguished from Ælflæda, daughter of Edward the Elder, who was herself connected with the founding of the ...