We are back in our home county of Hampshire visiting Titchfield Abbey. Architecturally you'll fall in love with its stately and grand appearance but this now fortified manor house was once built on the ruins of a Premonstratensian Monastery and is rumoured to be the site in which Shakespeare may have first performed some of... Continue Reading →
Founded in the early 12th century, Haughmond abbey was a ruined, medieval, Augustinian monastery with a community of canons and priests whose daily life was reined by monastic rule. but unlike most monks they did not all lead secluded lives and often travelled around providing spiritual support. Monasteries are the homes of communities of men... Continue Reading →
The Yorkshire Dales has such a wealth of incredible castles, listed buildings and abbeys that some of them are a little overshadowed. Most people have heard of Fountains Abbey, Bolton Abbey and Rievaulx Abbey and yet Easby Abbey is more unknown and outshined by those three in the area. So why not join us as we... Continue Reading →
The wonderful yet eerie remains Roche Abbey, a Monastery that lies in the wooded valley of the Maltby Beck, about 9 miles from Doncaster and close to Sheffield in South Yorkshire. Now only a small part of the eastern end of the abbey church remains standing to any height. But this was once a splendid... Continue Reading →
Today we drove to the outskirts of Southampton, in Netley, a small village south in the UK, where we spent an afternoon at the stunning Netley Abbey. There is an abundance of beauty and history connected with the Abbey, which makes for such an interesting visit, and one you would hate to miss out on,... Continue Reading →
The Augustine abbey at Lilleshall is around 6 miles north of Telford and founded sometime between the years of 1145 and 1148 by the Arrouaisian Order from Dorchester Abbey in Oxfordshire. The extensive sandstone still remains and is now kept by the English heritage who let people explore these ruins for free, set within a... Continue Reading →
We venture to a beautifully situated medieval abbey overlooking the River Tees, just south-east of Barnard Castle. It was established around 1195 by a group of Premonstratensian canons, The monks, who were also all ordained priests, were known as White Canons because of their distinctive white attire. Throughout its history, the abbey suffered from on-going... Continue Reading →
Our visit today takes us around a hollow shell of an old church surrounded by a Neolithic earthwork in the beautiful countryside of Dorset. Join us as we find out why this church was once a symbol of transition from pagan to Christian worship and wander the site exploring how atmospheric and haunted the Knowlton... Continue Reading →
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