59:), the aging couple found it difficult to journey there. They had built a manor house and subsequently founded Colne Priory, the only Benedictine cell of Abingdon, in order to have monks of that house close to them and as a family mausoleum. About 1112 Aubrey I retired to the priory, joined by his youngest son, William de Vere, both of whom died there shortly thereafter. The relations between Abingdon and its priory were occasionally discordant, and in the 13th century Colne Priory became an independent priory.
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A manor house was later built; the Priory church was demolished at an unknown date, prior to 1760. The 2001 history provides these specifics: "the buildings were adapted as the manor house of Earls Colne and Colne Priory manors". In 1935, many of the surviving tombs at Colne, some with effigies, were
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The priory church is believed to have been "a magnificent building, twice the length of the parish church, with twin towers at the western end and a bell tower in the centre". For 14 generations, the church was the family mausoleum of the Earls of Oxford and became full of their elaborate monuments.
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In the medieval era, the property was known as the Priory of St. Mary the Virgin and St. John the
Evangelist (and also as the Priory of St. Mary and St. Andrew). Although specifics are few, there may have been an earlier minster on the site. During excavations between 1929 and 1934, a great deal of
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The house now on the site, also called Colne Priory, was built here circa 1825, after demolition of the manor circa 1820. It is not located exactly on the site of the original Priory. The current house incorporates sections of the Priory and of the post-Dissolution mansion. Some of the de Vere
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The cloister lay south of the nave, with the chapter house and the dorter on its east side and the frater on the south; the infirmary block was presumably further east... At the
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