Shrewsbury Abbey - LUCKY SEVEN - Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK.
N 52° 42.452 W 002° 44.656
30U E 517278 N 5839767
Shrewsbury Abbey the sole focus of this LUCKY SEVEN scoring a Tally of 14. The Abbey Church is located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK.
Waymark Code: WMQFNP
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/22/2016
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The Abbey was founded as a Benedictine Monastery by Roger de Montgomery in 1083 on the site of an existing Saxon church. After the Dissolution of all Monasteries by King Henry VIII, part of the Abbey survives to this day as a Parish Church.
Christian worship has taken place at this location for over a thousand years. The Abbey Church of Saint Peter & Saint Paul, was constructed at the site of a small wooden Anglo Saxon Church in 1093.
The Abbey Church is the Parish church of Holy Cross, Shrewsbury in the Dioceses of Litchfield
Shrewsbury is located in the landlocked county of Shropshire on the border of the Welsh Marches of Mid & North Wales, & to the East is surrounded by the Counties of Cheshire, Staffordshire, Herefordshire & Worcestershire.
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