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Calwich Abbey

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The estate was purchased from the Fleetwoods by Bernard Granville. He demolished the priory house and built a new house nearer the stream which he turned into a lake. Granville died childless in 1775, bequeathing the property to his nephew, the Reverend John D'Ewes, who assumed the surname Granville
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and was dedicated to St Margaret. In 1349 it became independent from Kenilworth with the right to elect its own prior. It was always a small and relatively poor establishment. After the death of the prior in 1530 only one canon remained in residence and in 1532 the house was suppressed and handed
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Much of the house was demolished in 1927. The remaining building and stables, although Grade II listed, is in a derelict state. A fishing temple, built next to the river, survives.
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on inheriting the estate. He also left the estate in 1826 to a nephew, Court D'Ewes, who similarly adopted the surname Granville. This house hosted visits by
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The estate was then acquired by the Duncombe family in the 1840s, who rebuilt the house in 1849–50 on higher ground in a Jacobean style by architect
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In May 2015 Calwich Abbey Estate was offered for sale and in June 2015 it was announced that it had been bought by Garrick Sayers for £2 million.
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for disposal. By 1543 the property had been acquired by the Fleetwood family, who converted the priory buildings into a dwelling house.
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A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great ..., Volume 3
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Calwich Abbey is located in Staffordshire
Order
Benedictine
Ellastone
Staffordshire
England
Coordinates
52°59′12″N 1°48′35″W / 52.9868°N 1.8097°W / 52.9868; -1.8097
Ellastone
Kenilworth Priory
Rocester Abbey

Erasmus Darwin
Handel
Anna Seward
Rousseau
William Burn
Listed buildings in Ellastone
"A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 3 - The Priory of Calwich"
"Staffordshire places-Ellastone"
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"Calwich Abbey and Garden Steps, Ellastone"
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Monasteries in Staffordshire
Augustinian
Baswich Priory
Calwich Priory

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