Halesowen No. 2 / Hala / Halam / Hales / Hales Owen / Hales Regis / Halesoweyn / Halysoweyn
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: Source caption: "The view from the Monarch's Way of St Mary's Abbey ruins."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2011 by Gordon Griffiths [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2433248] [accessed 17 September 2014]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19432HAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Abbey Church [in ruins]
Church Location: Manor Way, Halesowen, West Midlands B62 8RJ, UK -- Tel.: +44 870 333 1181
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located in the western suburbs of Birmingham, towards Stourbridge
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Worcester]
Historical Region: Hundred of Clent
Date: ca. 1215?
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Early English
Church Notes: abbey founded 1215 by Premonstratensian canons under a grant from King John
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "The scanty remains of the Premonstratensian ABBEY OF HALESOWEN founded in 1215 are situated upon a slight eminence in a secluded valley about half a mile south-east of the village [...] The conventual buildings were demolished shortly after the Dissolution, and from the churchwardens' accounts for 1539 it appears that the parish authorities took part in the spoliation. A modern farm-house stands a little to the south of the monastic remains. [...] The surviving remains include one bay of the north wall of the presbytery, the south-west corner of the south transept, the east end of the south wall of the south aisle and a small piece of walling at the south-west corner of the same aisle; these are all circa 1220.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.44415, -2.035412
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 26′ 38.94″ N, 2° 2′ 7.48″ W
UTM: 30U 565561 5810877
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-09-17 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.