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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
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,:L Leland was, however,probably referring to the passage in H. E. v. 1., Monasterium quodvocatur Inderauuda, id est silva Derorum, but this Monastery wasBeverley Minster. About the year 679 a Bishopric was founded at Worcester, but we hearnothing of any Monastery at Deerhurst until 804, when Ethelric in dis-posing of his property gave land at Todenham and Preston-on-Stour, andalso at Scraefleh and Cohhanleh, which cannot certainly be identified, toDeerhurst, for himself and his father Ethelmund, who had been slain atKempsford in 800, on condition that he was buried at the Minster. St.Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1005-1012, was Abbot of Deerhurstfrom 970 to 978, when he became Abbot of Bath. The WorcesterChronicle tells us that Cnut and Edmund Ironsides met at Olney, nearDeerhurst, and divided the kingdom. Gloucester men like to believe thatthe meeting took place near their city. In the time of the ConfessorDeerhurst lost its independence, for the king gave it to Baldwin, a monk
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POINTED D-I 3B-° POINTED D° GROUND PLAN OF DEERHURST CHURCH.1 Lelands Itinerary, vol. vi. 79. Transactions for- the Year 1902. of St. Denis, who became Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds about 1065. Heseems to have kept the Deerhurst property, for William the Conquerorconfirmed it to him when he obtained the kingdom. Afterwards, onApril 13th, 1069, the king gave Deerhurst Minster to the Abbey of St.Denys;1 it had, however, been previously plundered for the benefit ofOdda, Elfric, and Westminster Abbey. In 1250 the Priory was sold by the Abbey of St. Denys to Richard,Earl of Cornwall; but it appears to have reverted to St. Denys, for in 1442it was confiscated as the property of an alien monastery and given inunequal shares to Tewkesbury and Eton. By some arrangement it camewholly to Tewkesbury in the reign of Henry VII., and was dissolved as acell of that monastery in 1539. The church as it exists at present forms a parallelogram, but it appearsto have been at one time cruciform. The eastern

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