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Ware has 202 listed buildings including fourteen Grade II* and three Grade I, [16] one of which is the remains of a 14th-century friary, [17] now the offices of Ware Town Council [18] and a conference, wedding and function venue [19] called Ware Priory and Fletcher's Lea. Recent restoration work has shown that it dates from the 13th century.
The chancel, the oldest part of the present building, dates from the thirteenth century, when the church served the town and the monks of the Benedictine priory. The church was expanded in the 1390s with the addition of clerestories and aisles, which feature corbels of Joan of Kent, Dowager Princess of Wales, her badges and her husbands.
The following is a list of the monastic houses in Hertfordshire, England.. Alien houses are included, as are smaller establishments such as cells and notable monastic granges (particularly those with resident monks), and also camerae of the military orders of monks (Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller).
The gift was confirmed at the beginning of the 13th-century, with the abbey under the control of Ware Priory, a subordinate of Saint-Evroul. [ 1 ] In 1220, while under the patronage of the Earl of Winchester, the priory is recorded as a hermitage , and as independent (no longer under the control of another abbey or priory), and as in possession ...
In 1414 Henry V of England founded at Sheen this priory, known as the House of Jesus of Bethlehem, 'for forty monks of the Carthusian order'. [1]The foundation charter describes the site in detail: built on the north side of the royal manor house, on a piece of land 3,125 feet by 1,305 feet 8 inches extending from 'Hakelok' by 'Diverbussh' on the south to the cross called 'Crosasshe' on the north.
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Christ Church is a Church of England church in Ware, Hertfordshire, England. The parish was formed out of the ancient parish in 1858 and covers the East and South sides of Ware. The building was consecrated in 1858 and is grade II listed. [2] [3]