A Benedictine order of monks, founded in the Burgundian area of France, by Duke William of Aquitaine. It was unusual in that, unlike other monastic communities it was granted perpetual freedom from military service and other temporal obligations. The order spread to Britain in the eleventh century, with the first monastery being erected at Lewes.
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Order of Cluny
Bermondsey Abbey, founded as a Priory of the Order of Cluny, stood here, 1082...
From the building society that funded the Rochester Square Spiritualist Temple. Advertised in the Hendon & Finchley Times in the 1920s and 30s.
Officially named Unitas Fratrum (Unity of the Brethren), it originated in Bohemia when Jan Hus, a priest and philosopher, objected to some of the practices of the Roman Catholic church, and wanted ...
The church, dating back to the 9th century, was destroyed in the Great Fire and not rebuilt. The parsonage survived until at least 1762.
Established in the East End as the Bedford Institute Association to act on Education, Religious Effort, Moral Training, and Relief of the sick and destitute. Named for the Quaker silk merchant and ...
First mentioned as ‘Sancti Botolfi extra Bishopsgate’ in 1212. Repaired in 1671 and partially reconstructed in 1666, after the Great Fire. Demolished in the early C18th. The present church (picture...
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