Christchurch Priory
Christchurch Priory, Christchurchcounty:
Dorset
otherwise: Twinhambourn Abbey?
The place is described in text Cox 1738
- Christchurch parish: - Hampshire
Here [Christchurch] was ... a College of Prebendaries, founded in the Times of the Saxons; but being faln to decay thro' Age, Ralph Flambard, Bishop of Durham, repaired it and restored the Prebendaries; whom Richard de Ridvers, Earl of Devonshire in the Reign of King Henry I. richly endowed, as they continued to the Dissolution.
... There were Secular Canons in the Reign of King Edward the Confessor, in Christ-Church at Twyneham. Ralph Flambard, a great favourite of King William Rufus's, and afterward Bishop of Durham, was Dean of this Church. He built it new, and changed the Name of Trinity to that of Christ. Richard de Redvers, who was made the Earl of Devon, and had the Isle of Wight given him by King Henry I. with the Inheritance of Twineham, endowed it with certain Lands in the Isle of Wight. Baldwin de Redvers confirmed the Estate given by his Father, and introducing Canons Regular into the Church, granted them large Privileges, and his Son Richard allowed them farther the free Election of their Prior, and confirmed all their Possessions, yet the Seculars, by the Order of Henry, Bishop of Winchester and Hilary, Dean of Christ Church, were to enjoy their Prebends as long as they lived, and after their Decease their Lands and Revenues were to be for the Use of the Prior and Canons Regular only. Valued at the Suppression at 312 l. 7 s. per Annum, Dug. 544 l. 6 s. per Annum, Speed.
- Hampshire
IN the Reign of King Edward the Confessor, there were Secular Canons in the Church of Christ at Twyneham, and in the Reign of King Stephen Canons Regular were first brought into it. Randulf Flamward, Bishop of Durham, threw down the old Church, which was of the Invocation of the Holy Trinity, with 9 others that stood about it, and in their Place built a new one, with a Monastery and Conveniences for Canons Regular; but being in Disgrace with Kiing Henry I. he was Imprison'd, his new Church at Twyneham stripp'd of all its Wealth, and given to one Gillibert de Dunsgunnels, a Clerk, who went to Rome, to get Leave to settle Canons there, but dy'd by the way in his return.
Richard de Redvers having obtain'd all that Land, and the Church of Twyneham, of King Henry, plac'd one Peter a Priest to govern the same, and the aforesaid Richard conferr'd on it some Lands in the Isle of Wight, and one of his Barons the Land of Absam, as did all the Parishioners their Tithes. Under this Peter the Church suffer'd, he being too intent upon his own Interest.
- Hampshire
ANno 1150, Henry, Bishop of Winchester, and Hilarius then Dean of Christ-Church, at the request of Earl Baldwin and his Son Richard, brought the Canons Regular into this Church, and appointed a Prior; ordaining that the secular Canons then there should hold their Benefices during their Lives, serving as before, and being subject to the regular Canons, but at their Deaths the Prebend fall to the Regulars; and as for the Parsons of the Churches and Chapels belonging to Christ-Church, they were to possess the same as long as they behav'd themselves legally; but when they dy'd, none of their Kindred to be put in, as it were by Inheritance, but their Revenues to go to the Canons Regulars, and they to take care that the said Churches and Chapels were decently serv'd; saving the Right of the Bishop of Winchester. He farther confirm'd all the Possessions of that church, particularly the Churches of Bolra, Hordulle, Milneford, Sopley, and Torley, with their Chapels of Brokeherst, Lymeton, and Holeherst.
- Hampshire
... Religious Houses ... deliver'd to King Henry VIII. in the 26th Year of his Reign, with the yearly Value ...
value l. s. d. q.
Twinham Pr. Can. St. Aug. 312 7 0 1
otherwise: Twyneham Priory
