Crabhouse Priory

Small farm track leading off a mintor road. behyind a low hedge some single story brick farm buildings peep. A huge tree ominates the right side of the picture
Crabbs Farm, Crabbs Abbey

Crabhouse Priory was a medieval monastic house in Norfolk, England.[1][2]

The Priory of St Mary the Virgin and St John the Evangelist was a House of Augustinian Nuns founded in the late 12th Century in the south of the Parish of Wiggenhall (now the Parish of Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen). This site is now on the west bank of the Great Ouse between King's Lynn and Downham Market 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 Stowbridge.

For its history, see the discussion of the transcript of the Crabhouse Register by Mary Bateson.[3]

The Priory was dissolved during the reign of Henry VIII, and most of the monastic buildings were partially demolished during the next 20 years. The vast agro-industrial complex and the lodgings were maintained for farming purposes, and the Estate remained largely intact until the mid twentieth Century.

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 Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen. The monastic fishponds were located to the south of the main house.

Much of the agricultural precinct extended over the current boundaries of the property.

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.[1]

Prioresses of Crabhouse[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Historic England. "Crabhouse Priory (356106)". PastScape.
  2. 1 2 -last=Page, William, ed. (1906). "House of Austin nuns: The priory of Crabhouse". A History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2. pp. 408–410. ISBN 9780712906463. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  3. ↑ http://www.archive.org/stream/norfolkarchaeol24socigoog/norfolkarchaeol24socigoog_djvu.txt

52°38.69′N 0°21.90′E / 52.64483°N 0.36500°E / 52.64483; 0.36500


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, September 07, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.