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The '''Abbey Church of St Mary the Virgin''' at [[Sherborne]] in the [[England|English]] county of [[Dorset]], is usually called '''Sherborne Abbey'''. It has been an [[Anglo-Saxons|Saxon]] [[cathedral]] ([[705]]-[[1075]]) and a [[Benedictine]] abbey ([[998]] - [[1539]]) and is now a [[parish church]]. |
The '''Abbey Church of St Mary the Virgin''' at [[Sherborne]] in the [[England|English]] county of [[Dorset]], is usually called '''Sherborne Abbey'''. It has been an [[Anglo-Saxons|Saxon]] [[cathedral]] ([[705]]-[[1075]]) and a [[Benedictine]] abbey ([[998]] - [[1539]]) and is now a [[parish church]]. |
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There may have been a [[Celtic Christianity|Celtic Christian]] church called 'Lanprobi' at the site, but the first reliable historical records are of the Saxon cathedral founded there in 705 by [[Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne|Aldhelm]], whom his kinsman, King [[Ine of Wessex]], appointed the first bishop of the see of Western [[Wessex]], with his seat at Sherborne. Fragments of that original cathedral survive in the present building. Aldhelm was the first of twenty-seven bishops of Sherborne. |
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Revision as of 07:34, 3 May 2008
The Abbey Church of St Mary the Virgin at Sherborne in the English county of Dorset, is usually called Sherborne Abbey. It has been an Saxon cathedral (705-1075) and a Benedictine abbey (998 - 1539) and is now a parish church.
Dr poopey pants was
born in irak ,he was a slave until the age of sixteen.He was then fired and had to live on the streets for 5 years.He then went to a refugee camp an wrote a book about his death.
Abbey
The twentieth bishop was Wulfsige III (or St. Wulfsin). In 998 he established a Benedictine abbey at Sherborne and became its first abbot. In 1075 the bishopric of Sherborne was transferred to Old Sarum, so Sherborne remained an abbey church but was no longer a cathedral. The bishop (in Old Sarum) remained the nominal head of the abbey until 1122, when Roger de Caen, Bishop of Salisbury, made the abbey independent.
The abbey was rebuilt in the 12th century, in Norman style, and again in the 15th century, in Perpendicular style. The fan-vaulting in the choir for which Sherborne is still famous was added in that 15th century remodeling by Abbot John Brunyng (1415-1436).
Parish church
The Benedictine foundation at Sherborne ended in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, but instead of surrendering the abbey to King Henry VIII, the people of Sherborne (as the people of many other places did) bought the building to be their parish church, which it still is. In 1550, King Edward VI issued a new charter to the school that had existed at Sherborne since 705, and some of the remaining abbey buildings were turned over to it.
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50°56′48″N 2°31′0″W / 50.94667°N 2.51667°W Coordinates: Extra unexpected parameters