RETURN TO BAYHAM The earliest consolidation works at Bayham are the massive buttresses built against the south wall of the nave of the abbey church. This work is believed to have been carried out by William Wilkins and Humphrey Repton
BAYHAM ABBEY : POST-DISSOLUTION
RETURN TO BAYHAM As noted in the ‘Dissolution’ section, Bayham was an early closure made by Wolsey in 1525 – part of a package of estates intended to fund his plan for secular colleges. On Wolsey’s fall in 1529, the
BEELEIGH ABBEY
BEELEIGH ABBEY SUMMARY and LOCATION: NGR:
St Leonard’s Hospital, Alnwick
St Leonard’s Hospital (NU 18778 14375) was founded sometime between 1193 and 1216 by Eustace de Vescy, the grandson of the founder of Alnwick Abbey. The hospital was said to be on the site close to a spring known as
Bayham Charters
RETURN TO BAYHAM The Bayham cartulary is in the British Library (BL Cotton Otho A.ii). There is currently no publication of this cartulary, but Sussex Record Society have commissioned Marie Tranchant to produce a volume in the near future. The
BAYHAM ABBEY : Monastic History
RETURN TO BAYHAM The best history of Bayham is that written by S. E. Rigold around 1974 and published in the DoE guide to Bayham Abbey. I have reproduced the relevant section of his text verbatim, below: ORIGINS AND FOUNDATION
BEAUCHIEF ABBEY : Cartulary
Aberystwyth, NLW., Gwysaney 15 Gen. cartulary, early 15th century, with rubrics, red initials etc. Contains copies of private deeds arranged mainly by grantors, one royal Inspeximus and, at the beginning, Pope Lucius III’s privileges to the Premonstratensian Order (1183). An
BAYHAM ABBEY : Cartulary
BM., Cotton Otho A ii. Gen. cartulary, 13th cent. (c.1245?), written in book-hand with rubrics etc. and occasional red initials. Arranged in sections mainly topographically (papal charters, fos. 6-9; royal and episcopal documents, fos. 48-51; compositions and fines, fos. 60-4;
BARLINGS ABBEY : Cartulary
BM., Cotton Faust B. i. Fos 30 – 179. Gen. cartulary, late 13th cent. (temp. Edw I) with rubrics, red paragraphs etc. Contains copies of private and some episcopal etc. charters arranged topographically, followed (fos. 93v ff.) by misc. 13th-14th
The Origins of the Premonstratensians
The Premonstratensian Order This text is adapted from the introduction to the DoE Bayham Abbey guide booklet (1974) by Stuart Rigold. The map is from The White Canons by Howard Colvin (1951) The Premonstratensian order was founded by St Norbert