The New Minster in Winchester was a royal Benedictine abbey founded in 901 (1124 years ago) in Winchester in the English county of Hampshire. Alfred the Great had intended to build the monastery, but only got around to buying the land.

2025年1月29日 · Their new home was speedily ready for occupation, and in 1110 the monks of New Minster carried with them to the Abbey of Hyde, in solemn procession, their sacred relics, the great gold cross of Cnut's benefaction, together with the illustrious remains of Alfred, his queen and his son. Henry I. made several grants to the abbey, among them the ...

The New Minster, Winchester Alfredian Mausoleum. Winchester New Minster was founded in AD 901 by King Edward the Elder, both as a Royal Mausoleum for his father, King Alfred the Great, and as a town church for the newly established burgh. It originally dominated the little 7th century 'Old Minster' standing alongside.

2014年12月17日 · From the time of King Alfred the Great (871–99), Winchester had an Old Minster, or cathedral, and a New Minster also in development. Today, the Cathedral of Winchester is of breathtaking size and beauty, and it was intended to be just that since its inception. Begun under the Norman Bishop Walkelin (1070–98), the east end, crossing, and ...

The detailed information on the benefactors of the New Minster, contained in the tract on the founders and benefactors of the New Minster and Hyde Abbey (BL Cotton Vespasian D. ix, fols. 30r-40r, at 31r-32v, most readily accessible in Mon. Angl. (rev. ed.), p. 436), appears to represent a tradition which is independent of the ‘Liber abbatiae’.

The New Minster Charter is an Anglo-Saxon illuminated manuscript that was likely composed by Bishop Æthelwold [2] and presented to the New Minster in Winchester by King Edgar in the year 966 AD to commemorate the Benedictine Reform.

2021年8月16日 · In 901, the New Minster, a royal Benedictine abbey, was built next to the Old Minster. After the consecration of Winchester Cathedral in 1093, the Old Minster was demolished. The remains of Kings of Wessex, Kings of England, and their consorts who had been buried in the Old Minster were exhumed and re-interred in Winchester Cathedral.

2018年7月15日 · The ancient cathedral of Old Minster and the abbey church of New Minster once stood at the heart of Anglo-Saxon Winchester. Buildings of the first importance, honoured by Anglo-Saxon and Norman kings, these great churches were …

A history of extensive archaeological excavations in Winchester from 1961 to 1970, showing how they led to the discovery of the Old and New Minsters and brought back to life the history, archaeology and architecture of the city’s greatest Anglo-Saxon buildings.

The New Minster in Winchester was a royal Benedictine abbey founded in 901 (1124 years ago) in Winchester in the English county of Hampshire. A page from a 966 charter of King Edgar of England in which he confirms the conversion of New Minster, Winchester into a …