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St. Mary’s Church

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St. Mary’s Church

This collegiate church, was built in the late 13th century on the site of an earlier monastery. It was served by a "college" - clerics who lived in a community but who did not submit to the rule of a monastery. They lived in a house, now destroyed, beside the church. The church was a large and elaborate structure, with an aisled nave (the main part of the church where…

Source: National Monuments Service – Monuments to Visit (CC BY 4.0) · Ref KK020-060006-
Photo: Alex Passmore · CC BY-SA 2.0

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