- Barking Abbey
The ruined remains of Barking Abbey are in situated in
Barking in theLondon Borough of Barking and Dagenham in EastLondon ,England ; where it forms a public open space.Formally The Abbey of
Saint Mary , and later the Abbey ofSaint Mary and Saint Ethelburga. The first Barking Abbey was founded bySt. Erkenwald , Bishop of London, for his sister Saint Ethelburga in 666, as a missionary centre. All Hallows Barking, at Tower Hill, was founded by the abbey in 675. One of the great early works of Anglo-Latin scholarship, the "De Laude Virginitatis" (In Praise of Virginity), a double (prose and verse) work in the complex Latin style taught at the Canterbury School of Hadrian praising christian martyrdom and spiritual virginity, was dedicated by its author Saint Aldhelm (d. 709) to the ladies of Barking.Bede recorded the foundation. The Abbey was destroyed by theVikings in 870, and 100 years later was re-founded as a Royal foundation. William the Conqueror spent his first New Year after theNorman Conquest in 1066 at the Abbey.Archbishop Dunstan made Barking Abbey a strict Benedictine nunnery.In 1541 the Abbey was dissolved by order of
Henry VIII . After that, the Abbey site was used as a quarry and a farm. A modern ward of the borough is named "Abbey" after the ruin.Gallery
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Barking Abbey Secondary School External links
* [http://www.barking-dagenham.gov.uk/4-heritage/abbey/abbey-menu.html Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council] - Heritage and History, Barking Abbey
* [http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/barking_abbey.htm Tudor Place] - Barking Abbey
* [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=39832 "Houses of Benedictine nuns: Abbey of Barking", A History of the County of Essex: Volume 2 (1907), pp. 115-122]
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