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Crabhouse Priory

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One of the most interesting of the British monastic documents called the Register of Crabhouse or The Crabhouse Cartulary exists in the British Library. This is a record of many of the major events of the Priory from its founding through to the Dissolution.
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in the County of Norfolk. When the Priory was founded, the Great Ouse did not flow this way, and a little old watercourse was in the marsh ground that is now
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The main monastic complex existed on the site of the current house known as Crabbs Abbey, at Stowbridge in the southernmost part of the parish of
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Nuns founded in the late 12th Century in the south of the parish of Wiggenhall (now the parish of
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This article about a British Christian monastery, abbey, priory or other religious house is a
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Much of the agricultural precinct extended over the current boundaries of the property.
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Page, William, ed. (1906). "House of Austin nuns: The priory of Crabhouse".
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The Priory of St Mary the Virgin and St John the Evangelist was a House of
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Bateson, Mary (1889), "The register of Crabhouse Nunnery",
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This article about a Norfolk building or structure is a
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Christian monasteries established in the 12th century
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Norfolk
England
Augustinian
Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen
the Fens
Great Ouse
King's Lynn
Downham Market
Stowbridge
Mary Bateson
Henry VIII
Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen


Historic England
"Crabhouse Priory (356106)"


A History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2
ISBN
9780712906463
doi
10.5284/1077486
"Norfolk Heritage Explorer"
52°38.69′N 0°21.90′E / 52.64483°N 0.36500°E / 52.64483; 0.36500
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