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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 .
Historically, Sherborne was in Sherborne Hundred, and became a borough in 1227. It was an urban district from 1894 to 1974. [9] A separate rural district council, Sherborne Rural District, administered the surrounding parishes during this period, but did not include the town itself. [10] From 1974 to 2019, Sherborne was in West Dorset district ...
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 ...
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.
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]
The Sherborne School Choral Society was founded in 1871 by J R Sterndale-Bennett, the then director of music. [51] Nowadays it consists of the Sherborne School choirs, Girls' School Choir, and members of public from the local area. It performs annually, and concert venues have included Sherborne Abbey, Wells Cathedral, and Poole Lighthouse.
The title Bishop of Sherborne is now used by the Church of England for a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Salisbury. [1] The title Bishop of Sherborne was revived by the Church of England as a suffragan bishopric in the Diocese of Salisbury; that See was erected under the Suffragans Nomination Act 1888 by Order in Council dated 6 February ...