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Forde Abbey is a privately owned former Cistercian monastery in Dorset, England, with a postal address in Chard, Somerset. The house and gardens are run as a tourist attraction while the 1,600-acre (650 ha) estate is farmed to provide additional revenue.
Abbey Church is owned by the Diocese of Salisbury but used by Milton Abbey School in term time as its chapel. The Abbey Church is open to the public and accessed through the school grounds. The Priory Church of Saint Michael and Saint Mary, Milton The Abbey Church of The Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Samson and Saint Branwalader, Milton ...
Forde Abbey, [11] Chatsworth House, the Duke of Buccleuch and others have sets. [12] A set of six tapestries is now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden. [13] Lord Leverhulme acquired a Mortlake tapestry series in 1918 from Stella Hall, near Newcastle, home of the family of the industrialist Sir Joseph Cowen (1800–73).
Henry Rosewell was born on 1 November 1590 [1] at Forde Abbey in Devon (Forde Abbey is in the parish of Thorncombe which was transferred from Devon to Dorset in 1842). Henry was the only son of William Rosewell (1561–1593) and Ann Walkeden who were married at St Martins, London on 20 June 1588. [1]
In 1540 he was granted the newly dissolved Forde Abbey. [9] He was the 2nd son of Sir Lewis Pollard (c.1465-1526) of King's Nympton, Justice of the Common Pleas from 1514 to 1526 [10] and MP for Totnes in 1491. Sir Richard's son Sir John Pollard sold the manor of Combe Martin to his tenants and the demesne lands to his servant William Hancocke ...
Prideaux baronets, of Forde Abbey [ edit ] Sir Edmund Prideaux, 1st Baronet of Ford Abbey (died 1659) of Forde Abbey , the second son of the first Baronet of Netherton, was made a baronet by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell on 31 May 1658.