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In 1681, the estate was sold to the brewer John Parsons. It was divided into lots for sale in 1766; what became Nutfield Priory is a 93 acres (38 ha) site bought by John Fowler. The estate was inherited by John Fowler Wood and sold to H E Gurney, a Quaker, in 1854. [1] In 1866, Gurney's firm Overend Gurney declared bankruptcy, owing £19 million.
Quakers Friars (grid reference) is a Grade 1 Listed building in Broadmead, Bristol.Part of the former Blackfriars Priory site, it was used as a Quaker meeting house for nearly three hundred years, more recently serving as a registry office, a theatre, and a series of restaurants.
He rebuilt Nutfield Priory as a Gothic mansion, employing John Gibson as his architect. Gibson had already worked for Fielden in Todmorden: he was responsible for the Town Hall, the Unitarian church and for extending Stansfield Hall. [1] [6] He moved from Stansfield Hall to Nutfield in 1872, hiring a special train to move his possessions. [1]
The cloister buildings were converted from former cap factory into dwellings in the 18th century, and part of the west range was heightened and converted into three houses. Bell bequeathed Blackfriars to his niece Joan and her husband Thomas Denys, son of Sir Walter Denys of Dyrham Park, in which family it remained until c. 1700. Both the ...
Cauldwell Priory: Chicksands Priory ^ Gilbertine Canons and Canonesses — double house founded c. 1150 (1147) by Pain de Beauchamp and his wife, Rose (Roese/Roais) or c.1154; dissolved 1538; granted to London grocer Richard Snow; cloisters incorporated into private house; Crown Property 1936; in grounds of Military base to 1995; restored by ...
Ruins of octagonal lavatorium at Wenlock Priory. All monastic orders required handwashing before meals. A lavatorium was therefore provided near the refectory, [1] either against one wall of the cloister with a long trench basin, or as a free-standing building with a circular or octagonal basin in the centre. [2]
The remains of the cloister were opened up in the late 19th century, with other remains restored in 1945 and thereafter. [ 2 ] The ruins, comprising the west range of the cloisters and fragments of the south wall of the church, are Grade I listed.
A square cloister sited against the flank of the abbey church was built at Inden (816) and the abbey of St. Wandrille at Fontenelle (823–833). At Fulda , a new cloister (819) was sited to the liturgical west of the church "in the Roman manner" [ 12 ] familiar from the forecourt of Old St. Peter's Basilica because it would be closer to the relics.