Burton upon Trent No. 3 / Bertone / Burton-on-Trent / Burton on Trent / Burton-upon-Trent / Byrtune
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Scene Description: Source caption: "S 906 Charter of King Aethelred to Burton Abbey, confirmation of the will of Wulfric Spot, AD 1004 (11th-century copy, Burton Muniments)"
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Scene Description: the abbey church appears in northwest profile at the right of the image -- The VCH entry for this abbey notes: "The church stood at the northern end of the site on ground now occupied by part of the Market Place and by the 18th-century church of St. Modwen" [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital image of a 1661 print by Wenceslas Hollar in the University of Toronto Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wenceslas_Hollar_-_Burton_church_(State_2).jpg] [accessed 17 July 2019]
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FontID: 22249BUR
Church/Chapel: Benedictine Abbey Church of St. Mary [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Modwen [cf. FontNotes]
Church Location: Manor Dr, Burton-on-Trent DE14 3RW, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Staffordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: The present church, built in the early 1700s on the site of the former abbey, is located on the W banks of Peel's Cut, at the S end of The Friars' Walk and Abbey Trail, N of the A5189 [aka Orchard St], about 20 km SW of Derby
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Lichfield]
Historical Region: Hundred of Offlow
Date: ca. 1004?
Century and Period: 11th century (early?), Pre-Conquest
There is an entry for Burton [-upon-Trent] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK2423/burton-upon-trent/] [accessed 17 July 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it; it does however mention the abbey by name, "Abbatia S[an]c[t]e Marie de Bertone". The entry for this abbey in the Victoria County History (Stafford, vol. 3, 1970) mentions the 7th-century foundation of two church in this area by the Irish abbess St. Modwen, one of them on the Andressey island; none of them left after the 870s Danish incursions. The VCH entry (ibid.) further notes: "it was a Benedictine monastery on a new site on the west bank of the Trent at Burton that was built at the beginning of the 11th century. The founder was Wulfric Spot, a king's thegn possibly descended from King Alfred [...] The Annals of the abbey give 1004 as the date of foundation, and King Ethelred's charter of freedom and confirmation granted to the abbey in that year show it as already in existence [...] The house was described as the monastery of St. Benedict and All Saints in royal charters of 1008 and 1012 [...] but as the abbey of St. Mary in Domesday Book. [...] Its dedication to St. Mary and St. Modwen occurs fairly frequently in the later 12th century, [...] and although there are occasional references to St. Mary alone in the 13th century, [...] the double dedication continued for the rest of the abbey's existence. [...] In February 1539 Dr. John London was at Burton, [...] and on 14 November the abbot and community surrendered their house and its possessions to Dr. Thomas Legh. [...] The abbot and probably four remaining monks became members of the new college at Burton which was already being planned, though it was not actually founded until 1541. [...] The church stood at the northern end of the site on ground now occupied by part of the Market Place and by the 18th-century church of St. Modwen. The cloister and the conventual buildings lay immediately south of the church, an area now largely covered by the late-19th-century market hall. [...] The early-11th-century church seems already to have been divided into an upper and a lower church. [...] The church is known to have been divided into an upper and a lower church, that is, a monastic east end or choir and a non-monastic nave to the west, although the plan does not indicate any clear demarcation. [...] An engraving of the church from the south-west by Wenceslas Hollar in 1661". The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Stafford, vol. 9, 2003) notes: "St. Modwen's Old Church The present church of St. Modwen, a dedication derived from that of the former abbey but commonly used for the parish church only from the mid 19th century, [...] dates from the early 18th century. Its predecessor was that part of the former abbey church which was reserved to the parish when the Crown granted the possessions of the dissolved Burton college to Sir William Paget in 1546. It comprised the aisled nave of seven bays, west tower, west porch, crossing with tower and spire, and transepts". [cf. BSI entry for Burton upon Trent No. 2 for the font at the present church of St Mary S St Modwen]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.8005,
-1.6291
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 48′ 1.8″ N,
1° 37′ 44.76″ W
UTM: 30U 592423 5850959
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-07-17 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.