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Nunnery Of St Werburgh

Hob Uid: 416811
Location :
Medway
Hoo St. Werburgh
Grid Ref : TQ7800071000
Summary : Unlocated site of nunnery and monastery, founded circa 686-97, destroyed circa 840.
More information : Werburg, daughter of King Wulfhere of Mercia, founded a nunnery at Hoo between 686 and 697 A.D. (Name Hoo St. Werburgh - TQ 7972). It may have endured from about 690 to about 840. (For present church of St. Werburgh see TQ 77 SE 11). (1)

Hoo, Kent. Land on the island (later Hoo St. Werburgh) and adjoining granted to Ecgbald and his familia (?Benedictine) c.687. Monastic under an abbot in 716. Dissolved or destroyed ?9th century. (2)
Additional reference. (3)

The parish church of Hoo [TQ 77 SE 11] is still dedicated to St. Werburg, but no trace of her nunnery survives. The place name Abbot's Court (TQ 794 722) and the moated earthwork [TQ 77 SE 34] nearby probably relate to the medieval manor of Hoo, which was held by the Cistercian abbey of Boxley at the Dissolution. (3,4)
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Source Number : 1
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Source details : 1935 (G Ward)
Page(s) : 117-25
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Vol(s) : 47
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Source details : 1971
Page(s) : 475
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Source details : Kent 1926
Page(s) : 12-13, 154
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Vol(s) : II
Source Number : 4
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Source details : RCHME Field Investigation Mar-1994 (P Struth)
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Monument Types:
Monument Period Name : Early Medieval
Display Date :
Monument End Date : 714
Monument Start Date : 686
Monument Type : Nunnery
Evidence : Documentary Evidence
Monument Period Name : Early Medieval
Display Date : Extant
Monument End Date : 840
Monument Start Date : 687
Monument Type : Monastery
Evidence : Documentary Evidence
Monument Period Name : Early Medieval
Display Date : Regularised to Orders in 714
Monument End Date : 840
Monument Start Date : 714
Monument Type : Benedictine Nunnery
Evidence : Documentary Evidence
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : TQ 77 SE 22
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Associated Monuments :
Relationship type : General association
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Relationship type : General association
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Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1994-03-01
End Date : 1994-03-01