Osney Abbey
| Osney Cathedral | |
|---|---|
St George | |
| Associated people | Robert D'Oyly |
| Administration | |
| Diocese | Diocese of Oxford |
| Clergy | |
| Bishop(s) | Robert King (1542–1545) |
| Dean | John London (1542–1543) Richard Cox (1543–1545) |
Osney Abbey or Oseney Abbey, later Osney Cathedral, was a house of
History
The house was founded by Robert D'Oyly the younger, Norman governor of Oxford, prompted by his wife, Edith Forne, who, to expiate the sins of her former life as the mistress of Henry I, solicited her husband to this pious work with a story of the chattering of magpies, interpreted by a chaplain as souls in Purgatory who needed the foundation of a monastery to expiate their sins.
Edith was buried in Osney Abbey, in a religious habit, as John Leland describes upon seeing her tomb as it was on the eve of the dissolution: ‘Ther lyeth an image of Edith, of stone, in th' abbite of a vowess, holding a hart in her right hand, on the north side of the high altaire’. The legendary dream of magpies was painted near the tomb.
Osney was (along with
The most significant event in the history of the abbey came in April 1222 when the
The current navigation of the
After the abbey's
Burials
Today
All the buildings have now been destroyed except a rubble and timber-framed structure which may date from the 15th century.
On the same site is the long disused Osney Mill, now converted to housing,[5] close to Osney Lock. To the east is Osney Cemetery and to the south is Osney Mill Marina, on a 500m long island originally formed for the mill. To the north are the busy arterial road leading west out of Oxford, Botley Road, and Oxford railway station.
References
- ISBN 978-0-7126-6199-7.
- ^ Annales Monastici vol.iii, ed. H. Luard (1866), p.147, https://archive.org/details/annalesmonastic00priogoog/page/n232/mode/2up
- ^ Fred. S. Thacker The Thames Highway: Volume II Locks and Weirs 1920. Rrepublished 1968, David and Charles.
- ^ Chris Tresise, Osney Abbey, Mill Street (south side), Oxford, Oxfordshire, Images of England, 26 April 2006.
- ^ "Osney Mill, Mill Street, Oxford". www.oxford-architects.com. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
Bibliography
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- E.B. Fryde et al., eds, Handbook of British Chronology, 3rd edition (London: Royal Historical Society, 1986)
- David Knowles and R. Neville Hadcock, Medieval Religious Houses of England and Wales (London: Longman, 1971)
- George Lipscomb, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham (1847)
- Jan Morris, Oxford, 3rd edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
- Page, William, ed. (1907). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 2. Archibald Constable & Co. pp. 90–93.
- Crossley, Alan, ed. (1979). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 4. pp. 364–368.
- W.A. Pantin, 'The Fourteenth Century' in The English Church and the Papacy in the Middle Ages, ed by C.H. Lawrence (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1999 (1965))
- Maurice Powicke, Stephen Langton (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928)
- Sherwood, Jennifer; ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
- Postles, Dave (2008). Oseney Abbey Studies (PDF). Leicester.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Postles, David (January 1985). "The Learning of Austin Canons: the Case of Oseney Abbey". Nottingham Medieval Studies. 29: 32–43. ISSN 0078-2122.
- Postles, David (1 February 1987). "'Patronus et advocatus noster': Oseney Abbey and the Oilly family". Historical Research. 60 (141): 100–102. ISSN 0950-3471.
- Oseney abbey.; Salter, H. E. (1936) [1929]. Cartulary of Oseney abbey. Oxford Historical Society. v. 89-91, 97-98, 101. Oxford: Clarendon Press for the Oxford Historical Society.