Site of Benedictine Nunnery at Bretford
Description of this historic site
Documentary evidence suggests that a small Benedictine Nunnery was founded at Bretford during the Medieval period. The exact location of the nunnery is unknown.
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Notes about this historic site
1 The younger Geoffrey de Clinton gave land to Noemi the Nun, for the establishment of a small house of nuns. The scheme was speedily abandoned and the endowment given to Kenilworth Priory.
2 Founded after 1154, dissolved before 1167. This was a small house of two-three nuns. Later there were only two nuns.
3 Noted by Ordnance Survey.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
In 1979 I visited my grandparents Jim and Iris Halfpenny in Bretford. My Grandmother owned The Old Oaks house. Yes I mean that really old place. Anyways they told me that the house was almost 1,000 years old and when it was a lot newer, nuns lived in the house. It was a lot smaller back then. They also said they had knocked down an interier wall years earlier and found windows that had been sealed inside the wall. I think this was the location of your missing nunnery.
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