Nuneaton No. 2 / Etone / Nun Eaton

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the abbey ruins ca.1700-1750

Image Source: ca.1700-1750 engraving reproduced in [www.weddingtoncastle.co.uk/nuneaton-priory.html] [accessed 10 December 2014]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the abbey ruins in 1876

Image Source: 1876 engraving from the 'Illustrated London News' (1876) reproduced in [www.weddingtoncastle.co.uk/nuneaton-priory.html] [accessed 10 December 2014]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "The Abbey Church of St. Mary the Virgin. Founded 1155 - Dissolved 1539 - Restored & Reconsecrated 1877."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2005 by Ian Dunckley [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/34120] [accessed 10 December 2014]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's Abbey Church, Nuneaton. 1960s."

Image Source: 1960s B&W photograph [PH, 599/502, img: 3757 (3/3461)] in Libraries Heritage and Trading Standards, Warwickshire County Council [www.search.windowsonwarwickshire.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=3461] [accessed 10 December 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Inside St Mary's Abbey Church, Nuneaton. 1960s"

Image Source: 1960s B&W photograph [PH, 599/515, img: 3767 (3/3471)] in Libraries Heritage and Trading Standards, Warwickshire County Council [www.search.windowsonwarwickshire.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=3461] [accessed 10 December 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Mary's Abbey Church in Manor Court Road constructed from the ruins of the old Nuneaton Abbey whose broken walls can be seen here The church was rebuilt at the bequest of Mr. Thomas Botterill, a wealthy silk merchant. It is said to be haunted and it has plenty of "atmosphere" in this picture. (Peter Lee Collection)"

Image Source: B&W photograph in the Peter Lee collection [www.nuneatonhistory.com/new-home-page-under-construction.html] [accessed 10 December 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19561NUN

Church/Chapel: Abbey Church of St. Mary [aka Parish Church of St. Mary]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: The Abbey Vicarage, 99 Bottrill Street, Nuneaton, CV11 5JB -- Tel.: 02476 382936

Country Name: England

Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located NE of Chilvers Coton, by the county border with Leicestershire

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry

Historical Region: Hundred of Coleshill [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Hemlingford

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Late Norman

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There are two entries for Nuneaton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP3691/nuneaton/] [accessed 10 December 2014], neither of which mention cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 4, 1947) notes: "The parish church of Nuneaton was given by Earl Robert of Leicester to the Norman Abbey of Lyre during the reign of Henry I [i.e., 1100-1135], the gift being confirmed by Henry II in 1155. [...] The church of S[t]. M[ary] incorporates ancient remains of the church of the Benedictine Nunnery of Nuneaton. The nave was rebuilt in 1876 by Mr. Clapton Rolfe, the chancel in 1906, and north transept in 1931 by the late Sir Harold Brakespear. The latter, following a history of the nunnery by Mrs. Hilary Jenkinson, has written an architectural description of the remains, accompanied by a plan. This shows a cruciform church with a central tower, the vaulted presbytery and north and south transepts being each of two bays. The nave was of six bays, of which four served as the Nuns' Quire and the two west bays as the Brothers' Quire. The monastic buildings, of which very scanty remains survive, were on the normal lines. The eastern part of the church and the dorter range were probably the first to be erected after the foundation of c. 1155–9 and were followed by the nave and other buildings about the cloister. Early in the 13th century the central tower fell, owing to the failure of the north-east angle, and doubtless in falling damaged the presbytery and north transept. The presbytery and east wall of the transept were rebuilt soon afterwards. Of the remains of the church that have survived are portions of the 12th- and 13th-century piers of the tower [...] St. Mary's (often called 'the Abbey Church') was created a separate ecclesiastical parish on 23 Aug. 1878, and is in the gift of the Vicar of Nuneaton"; not font is mentioned in the VCH entry.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.525396, -1.477536

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 31′ 31.43″ N, 1° 28′ 39.13″ W

UTM: 30U 603287 5820566

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-12-10 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.