The Abbey Church of St Mary the Virgin at Sherborne in the English county of Dorset, is usually called Sherborne Abbey. Sherborne is an affluent Market town in north west Dorset, England, situated on the River Yeo England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Dorset ( (or archaically, Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast It has been an Saxon cathedral (705-1075) and a Benedictine abbey (998 - 1539) and is now a parish church. For their language see Anglo-Saxon language. Anglo-Saxon is the term usually used to describe the invading Tribes in the south This article is about the history and organisation of the cathedral Alternate meanings Area code 705; Project 705; Life 705 Events By Place Asia February 20 Benedictine refers to the Spirituality and Consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in Events By Place Europe Otto III retakes the city of Rome and reinstates his cousin Pope Gregory V, after mutilating A parish church, in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a Parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches
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Cathedral
There may have been a Celtic Christian church called 'Lanprobi' at the site, but the first reliable historical records are of the Saxon cathedral founded there in 705 by Aldhelm, whom his kinsman, King Ine of Wessex, appointed the first bishop of the see of Western Wessex, with his seat at Sherborne. Celtic Christianity, or Insular Christianity (sometimes called the Celtic Church or the British Church) broadly refers to the Early Medieval Saint Aldhelm (c 639 - 25 May 709) Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey, Bishop of Sherborne, Latin poet and Anglo-Saxon literature Ine was King of Wessex from 688 to 726 He was unable to retain the territorial gains of his predecessor Cædwalla, who had brought much of Southern West Saxon redirects here For other meanings of Wessex or West Saxon see Wessex (disambiguation. Fragments of that original cathedral survive in the present building. Aldhelm was the first of twenty-seven bishops of Sherborne.
Abbey
The twentieth bishop was Wulfsige III (or St. Wulfsin). In 998 he established a Benedictine abbey at Sherborne and became its first abbot. Events By Place Europe Otto III retakes the city of Rome and reinstates his cousin Pope Gregory V, after mutilating In 1075 the bishopric of Sherborne was transferred to Old Sarum, so Sherborne remained an abbey church but was no longer a cathedral. Old Sarum is the site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury, in England. The bishop (in Old Sarum) remained the nominal head of the abbey until 1122, when Roger de Caen, Bishop of Salisbury, made the abbey independent. Roger (or Roger le Poer) (died 1139 was a Norman Medieval Bishop of Salisbury and the seventh Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper The Bishop of Salisbury is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Salisbury in the Province of Canterbury.
The abbey was rebuilt in the 12th century, in Norman style, and again in the 15th century, in Perpendicular style. The Normans were the people who gave their names to Normandy, a region in northern France. English Gothic is the name of the Architectural style that flourished in England from about 1180 until about 1520 The fan-vaulting in the choir for which Sherborne is still famous was added in that 15th century remodeling by Abbot John Brunyng (1415-1436). A fan vault is a form of vault used in the Perpendicular Gothic style in which the ribs are all of the same curve and spaced equidistantly in a manner resembling
Parish church
The Benedictine foundation at Sherborne ended in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, but instead of surrendering the abbey to King Henry VIII, the people of Sherborne (as the people of many other places did) bought the building to be their parish church, which it still is. The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the formal process between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded Henry VIII (28 June 1491 &ndash 28 January 1547 was King of England and Lord of Ireland, later King of Ireland and claimant to the Kingdom of In 1550, King Edward VI issued a new charter to the school that had existed at Sherborne since 705, and some of the remaining abbey buildings were turned over to it. Edward VI (12 October 1537 &ndash 6 July 1553 became King of England and Ireland on 28 January 1547 and was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine Alternate meanings Area code 705; Project 705; Life 705 Events By Place Asia February 20
External links
- Sherborne Abbey official website
"Sherborne Abbey". Catholic Encyclopedia. The Catholic Encyclopedia, also referred to today as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language Encyclopedia published by The Encyclopedia (1913). New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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