Newbo

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbey House, Sedgebrook. The house takes its name from the Abbey of Newbo, which lay to the east of Sedgebrook. The house dates from around 1700"

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 February 2017 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5280242] [accessed 13 May 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22149NEW
Church/Chapel: Abbey Church [disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: [NB: address and coordinates given are for the site of the disappeared abbey: Barrowby, Grantham, UK]
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: The site of the disappeared abbey is located just N of the A52 and E of the Old Beck and Sedgebrook, 3-4 km NW of Barrowby, 5-6 km NW of Grantham
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Lincoln]
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Romanesque / Transitional?
No individual entry found for Newbo in the Domesday survey. The entry for this Premonstratensian abbey in the Victoria County History (Lincoln, vol. 2, 1906) notes: "The abbey of Newbo, between Barrowby and Sedgebrook, was founded by Richard de Malebisse [...] about 1198 in honour of the Assumption of Blessed Mary. [...] In 1401 the monastery was almost depopulated by the results of pestilence and poverty. [...] In 1491 the debt was much reduced, and all was well within the monastery. [...] The abbey was dissolved before Michaelmas, 1536."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.931594, -0.719031
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 55′ 53.74″ N, 0° 43′ 8.51″ W
UTM: 30U 653307 5867097

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-05-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.