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Sherborne Abbey, otherwise the Abbey Church of St. Mary the Virgin, is a Church of England church in Sherborne in the English county of Dorset. It has been a Saxon cathedral (705–1075), a Benedictine abbey church (998–1539), and since 1539, a parish church .
Memorial in Sherborne Abbey. John Digby, 3rd Earl of Bristol (1634 – 18 September 1698) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1675 to 1677 when he inherited the peerage as Earl of Bristol.
On 4 January 1539, "the demesne lands of the monastery" including the Great Court, the Abbot's Garden, West Garden, Pyggy's Barton and the Prior's Garden, all in Sherborne, were assigned by Henry VIII to Horsey, for which Horsey paid £1,242 3s. 9d. to the King, plus £16 10s. 6d. for "the site of the church, steeple, campanile and churchyard ...
The Church of England parish church – Sherborne Abbey – is the most prominent building in the town. St Paul's Church is another Church of England church, in the northeast of the town. [18] The Bishop of Sherborne is a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Salisbury.
The Sherborne Missal was commissioned by Robert Bruyning, who served as abbot at the Abbey of St Mary in Sherborne in Dorset from 1385 to 1415. [3] It was made for use at the abbey [2] sometime between 1399 and 1407. [4] The main scribe was a Benedictine monk of Sherborne Abbey, John Whas. [5]
Sherborne Abbey was a Saxon cathedral (705 - 1075), a Benedictine abbey (998 - 1539) and is now a parish church. Pages in category "Burials at Sherborne Abbey" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
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The Domesday Book records that the abbey held Sherborne in 1086. [4] Edward I stayed in Sherborne in 1382. [4] In 1539 the abbey was suppressed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the Crown took its lands. Sherborne had a parish church by 1175, when it was listed amongst the property of Winchcombe Abbey. [4]