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Village church may be 'replica of Malmesbury Abbey'
Mr Mitchell's latest theory is that St Mary's Church in Purton, which boast both a west tower and a spire, was modelled on Malmesbury Abbey 12 miles away. Speaking to BBC Wiltshire, Mr Mitchell ...
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Dozens Of Bodies Found In A Medieval Cemetery Sitting Right Under The Garden Of A Hotel In A Small English Town
Two dozen skeletons and other bones dating to between 670 and 940 C.E. were discovered on the grounds of the historic Old ...
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Malmesbury: England's Oldest Borough
in the Middle Ages the building had a tall central spire... Malmesbury Abbey's founder, Maidulph, died in 675. At this time Aldhelm, a Saxon by birth and related to King Ine of Wessex, took over ...
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JMW Turner's Malmesbury Abbey 'saved for the nation'
Malmesbury Abbey, which was painted by Turner at the age of 52, has been acquired from a private collector by the Athelstan Museum in Malmesbury. The £380,900 purchase was made possible by ...