St Botolph,Sundial,Thorney,camb's,U.K.
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N 52° 37.240 W 000° 06.449
30U E 695793 N 5834002
St Botolph,Sundial,Thorney,camb's,U.K.
Waymark Code: WM3T0J
Location: United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/13/2008
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St Botolph,Sundial is on The large Norman church, built from 1080, contained the relics of important saints such as St Botolph (brought from Boston) and attracted visitors and their donations. Further buildings were added and embellished, especially from 1305 to 1323, but The Black Death of 1349 killed 13 of the monks and 100 people in their household.
At the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII, Thorney still had an abbot and twenty monks, and an annual value of £411 12s 11d. The monks were given pensions and the Abbot retired to Whittlesey. The Abbey was rapidly stripped of many building materials, some of which went to Cambridge to build college chapels, and the Abbey's church was reduced to a ruin. By 1550, the island of Thorney and its surrounding fens were granted to John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford.
Sundial Type: Vertical - Wall mounted dial plate
Related Web Site: Not listed
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