Battle Abbey (Rating: 3.91 Votes: 33) Rate It! - Report bad link
Details of the town of Battle including History, Services, Views and Amenities
(Added: 5-Apr-1999 Hits: 10432)
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Battle Abbey. (Rating: 7.75 Votes: 98) Rate It! - Report bad link
The Abbey at Battle is probably one of the most important medieval sites in Britain. This page tells the story of the field of Hastings AFTER the battle. It gives an insight into its struggles with the Bishops to gain full control of the Abbey and also the rest of its troubled history since the Norman Invasion. There are also some fine pictures of this wonderful building.
(Added: 30-Apr-1999 Hits: 12019)
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Cartmel Priory (Rating: 4.90 Votes: 12) Rate It! - Report bad link
Just 20 minutes from the motorway and four miles from the southern tip of Lake Windermere, the village of Cartmel is uniquely set in the heart of gentle countryside. For many people, it is the most attractive village in southern Lakeland. The fourteenth century gate-house and the handsome buildings around the market square and in the narrow streets nearby are of continuing interest to visitors. In the centre of the village, between two rivers, lies the twelfth century Cartmel Priory with its tower set diagonally. The Priory was saved from destruction when Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries and today it is still the village church.
(Added: 17-Mar-1999 Hits: 6746)
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Cartmel Priory, Cumbria, England (Rating: 6.00 Votes: 1) Rate It! - Report bad link
Founded in 1190, this striking building was built by the Baron of Cartmel and occupied by the Augustinian Canons, as at Carlisle Cathedral and Lanercost Priory.
During the Dissolution, when Henry VIII took control of the Church, the Canons were ejected (despite appeals by the people of the area), and four of them were hanged, as were 10 farmers who had supported them.
(Added: 1-Oct-2006 Hits: 1796)
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