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detailed two precious chalices donated by Abbess Maud herself and Abbess Ellen de Percy and nine other chalices, several for use on a specific altar, two with depictions of St Thomas Becket on the foot, a number of silver and silver gilt ciboria and pyxes to hold the sacred hosts, one in the form of a tower. There were also crosses, basins, cruets for wine and water, candlesticks, censers, incense boats with their spoons, and two crowns (perhaps for crowning a statue of the Virgin), all in silver or silver gilts. This indicates not idle riches, but a certain level of income plus an attention to the dignity of the liturgical services as already seen a century earlier under Abbess
Euphemia.
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functions, such as latrines with running water, all away from the main buildings, and nearby a chapel of the
Blessed Virgin, with a large enclosed garden. By the river bank, she constructed other practical buildings, but left access to the river for the nuns. She cleared sordid older buildings that were a fire risk and built a new hall for the manor court, and further away a new and efficient mill She rebuilt from the ground up the dilapidated manor house at Middleton, and took similar measures at Tufton. She was attentive to charitable works and in providing hospitality.
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had been murdered in 1170 and after he died the abbey had a silver goblet and a gilded chalice that were noted because they had been used by revered Thomas a Becket. As the abbey had no relics it is speculated that these drinking vessels were used to attract funding. Matilda is said to have installed
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In larger monastic houses of both men and women, the sacristan held a highly responsible post and at
Wherwell was the beneficiary of specific income from dedicated rents. During the time of another abbess Maud (1333-1340) an inventory of the valuables in the sacristan’s custody was compiled. It
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She embellished the Norman church that had replaced the original Saxon church after the
Conquest with crosses, reliquaries, precious stones, vestments, and books. When the decaying bell tower collapsed on to the dorter in the early hours, narrowly missing the nuns, she built a tall and handsome
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Euphemia seems to have been a veritable whirlwind. Events include many undated charters relating to small gifts or grants was made. Like
Matilda (Maud?), she seems to have been well loved by the nuns, as the surviving cartulary records. Euphemia built a new farmery, dorter and areas for other
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A building associated with the Abbey now known as the
Stables survives. It is raised isle construction and may originally have been an infirmary. Timbers in the roof date from 1250 and 1280. Originally around 43 meters long nearly half of it has been lost.
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It would seem that immediately after the foundress's death, King Æthelred confirmed by charter all his mother's gifts to the abbey, where the abbess was then
Heanfied. The grant included exemption from temporal service, and the gift of land and houses at
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wrote to de
Bailleul and the nuns at the Abbey, acknowledging the reversal in the abbey's fortunes. By then the abbess had had a psalter in her possession which is believed to have been made by two scribes and an artist associated with
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granted a relaxation of one year and forty days to penitents practising imposed penance who visited the Abbey church of
Wherwell, on the four feasts of the Blessed Virgin, and on that of the Holy Cross and its octave.
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Wherwell Abbey were valued at a very considerable £201 18s. 5½d., in addition to which the abbess received pensions of £1 10s. from the church of Wallop and £1 6s. 8d. from the church of Berton.
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to the crown on 21 November 1539. The abbess received an annual pension of £40, the prioress one of £6, and twenty-three nuns received pensions of from £5 to £2 13s. 4d.
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replacement that matched the remaining buildings and in her old age she had dismantled and rebuilt with 12-foot deep foundations the sanctuary of the church.
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records the abbey's property as comprising the vills of Wherwell, Tufton Goodworth, Little Anne, Middleton, Bullington, and houses in Winchester, all in
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It was originally intended that the site and estates be granted to John Kingsmill, brother of the abbess, but in fact they were granted to
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