Pershore Abbey, church of St Mary, Benedictine abbey, church of St Mary of Pershore
Dates: Abbey holding evidenced in 1066 and 1086; continued until the Dissolution
Biography
The church of St Mary at Pershore was the ecclesiastical institution recorded as holding Abberton in Domesday Book. It was dissolved during the Reformation period.
Notes / Sources
The source establishes both tenant-in-chief and immediate lordship in 1086.
Research sources:
- Domesday Book, Worcestershire folio 7; Open Domesday entry for the land of Pershore (St Mary), abbey of, including Abberton. Victoria County History, A History of the County of Worcester, volume 4, 'Parishes: Abberton', pp. 4-7. — https://opendomesday.org/name/pershore-st-mary-abbey-of/
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