Godstow
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 47 ′ N , 1 ° 18 ′ W | ||
| OS National Grid | SP484091 | ||
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| Post town | OXFORD | ||
| ZIP code section | OX2 | ||
| prefix | 01865 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | South East England | ||
| District | Godstow Abbey | ||
| British Parliament | Oxford West and Abingdon | ||
Godstow is a hamlet on the Thames 4 kilometers northwest of Oxford . Here are the ruins of the Godstow convent.
abbey
The Benedictine -Abtei Godstow was built on an island between streams that flowed into the Thames. It was given to the founder Edith, widow of Sir William Launceline, in 1133 and was built from local limestone . The Mary and John the Baptist (St Mary and St John the Baptist) church dedicated was ordained 1139th Between 1176 and 1188, the abbey was expanded with funds coming from King Henry II and related to the abbey as the burial place of Rosamund Clifford , his mistress, who died in 1176.
Henry II and the Clifford family financed their grave in the choir of the abbey church and its maintenance. In 1191, two years after Henry's death, Bishop Hugo von Lincoln , who referred to Rosamund Clifford as a prostitute, ordered the tomb to be removed from the church. She was reburied in the nuns' cemetery.
The abbey was closed in 1539 as part of the dissolution of the English monasteries and the (new) grave of Rosamund Clifford was destroyed.
The abbey consisted of
- an outer courtyard with a number of buildings
- the St. Thomas Chapel, which was probably used by the employees of the abbey
- a priestly apartment and a guest house
- the buildings for the nuns
- The abbey church with cloister and associated buildings
George Price Boyce visited and painted the ruins in 1862
George Owen converted the abbey into Godstow House, which he and his family lived in until 1645 when the house was badly damaged during the English Civil War . Godstow House was henceforth used as a quarry.
literature
- Crossley, Alan; Elrington, CR (Ed.); Baggs, AP; Blair, WJ; Chance, Eleanor; Colvin, Christina; Cooper, Janet; Day, CJ; Selwyn, Nesta; Townley, Simon C. (1990). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 12: Wootton Hundred (South) including Woodstock. Pp. 311-313.
- Page, William, ed. (1907). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 2. Archibald Constable & Co. pp. 71-75.
- Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (1939). City of Oxford. HMSO.
- Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 852. ISBN 0-14-071045-0 .