Hyde Abbey
Hyde Abbey, Winchestercounty:
Hampshire
otherwise: monasterio Sanctae Trinitatis, 901-11; niwan mynstre, 964; Hida, 1156; Hyde, abbacia de la, 1219
HYDE ABBEY, in Winchester
Originally in Latin 'Novum Monasterium' and in English 'Niwe mynster'='(the) new monastery', the old one being the old St Swithin's cathedral. The monastery was moved outside the city walls in the mid 12th century and took its new name from a preexisting place name. 'Hid' is a land measure term of variable application (usually 100-120 acres) considered suitable for the upkeep of a family. There may be some relation between this name and that of HEADBOURNE WORTHY.
- Hyde Meadow - County Bridewell
... How, then, am I to describe what I felt, when I yesterday saw in HYDE MEADOW, a COUNTY BRIDWELL, standing on the very spot, where stood the Abbey which was founded and endowed by ALFRED, which contained the bones of that mak[er] of the English name, and also those of the learned monk, St. GRIMBALD, whom ALFRED brought to England to begin the teaching at Oxford!
otherwise: New Monastery at Winchester, The
The place is described in text Cox 1738
- Hampshire
Hyde, otherwise called The New Monastery at Winchester, an Abbey of Benedictines, designed to be built by King Elfred, but he dying before he began it, his Son, King Edward, fulfilled his Purpose, and placed Secular Canons in it, under the Rules of holy Grimbaldus. These Canons, after sixty Years Continuance, were turned out, to give place to Monks, Anno 964, by Athelwold, Bishop of Winchester, and the College changed into a Monastery, the Abbots being honoured with a Mitre, and allowed a Place in Parliament among the Peers. It was at first built near the Cathedral, but upon the Account of several Inconveniences, removed to Hyde. The Benefactors to this House being many Kings, viz. Athelstan, Edmund, Edred, Edgar, (who expelled the Canons, and placed Monks here) Edmund Ironside, Edward the Confessor, William the Conqueror, Henry I. Queen Maud, &c. the Revenues were great, which made it subject to the greater Misfortunes; for William the Conqueror seized all the Revenues, and kept them two Years, because the Abbot and twelve of his Monks were taken in Arms against him; and Henry de Blois, Bishop of Winchester, so oppressed them, that thirty Monks out of the forty left the House to escape his Hands, and avoid consenting to his Extortion. To this Monastery belonged divers Messuages, Lands and Tenements, Rents, Reversions and Services, lying and being in Slansted (sic) in this County in the Occupation of divers Tenants, holding them by Copy of Court-Roll, which being in the Possession of King Henry VIII. after the Dissolution, he exchanged them, Reg. 38. with Sir Ralph Sadler, for other Lands. Valued at 865 l. 18 s. and 3/4. per Annum.
Period - 18th century, early
... towards the north [of Winchester], a piece of an old monastry undemolish'd, and which is still preserv'd to the religion, being the residence of some private Roman Catholick gentlemen, where they have an oratory, and, as they say, live still according to the rules of St. Benedict. This building is call'd Hide-House; and, as they live very usefully and, to the highest degree, obliging among their neighbours, they meet with no obstruction or disturbance from any body.
THere is in the City of Winchester a Monastery which King Elfred had design'd, and his Son Edward built, placing Canons in it; but the Holy Ethelwod expelling the Canons, gave it to Monks. The Church of this Monastery being so near the Cathedral, that the singing at the same time in both Choirs was troublesome to each other, it occasion'd many Contests, for which Reason the Monastery was by King Henry remov'd without the City, Anno 1111.
St. Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester, not being able to bear with the scandalous Lives of the Canons of the said Monastery, having obtain'd Leave of King Edgar, he expell'd them, and fill'd the Place with Monks from Abingdon.
The Abbot and some of his Monks having been in Arms to oppose William the Conqueror, he took the Monastery and all its Lands into his own Hands, and erected a Barony of it. Henry Bishop of Winchester did still more Harm, and burnt down the Church in the Days of King Stephen, dispersing the Monks, and all the Treasures of the Abby.
- Winchester parish: - 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.
Hide Ab. Bened. 865 18 0 3
The place is described in text Leland 1535-43
In this suburbe stoode the great abbay of Hyde, and hath yet a paroche chirche.
This abbay was ons caullid Newanminstre and stoode in the Close hard by S. Swithunes, otherwise then caullid Ealdenminstre.
But when it was translatid thens to Hyde it bare the name of Hyde.
The bones of Alfredus, King of the West-Saxons, and of Edward his sunne and king, were translatid from Newanminstre, and layid in a tumbe before the high altare at Hyde: in the which tumbe was a late founde 2. litle tables of leade inscribid with theyr names. And here lay also the bones of S. Grimbald and Judoce.
Minns says:- St. Grimbald, a monk of St. Bertin Monastery in Artois, brought to England by Alfred to assist in founding his University of Oxford. After Alfred's death Grimbald completed the Newanminstre. 'St. Judocus, or Josse, a French saint whose bones were brought to Winchester and admitted into Grimbald's Church, where his shrine became a centre of devotion.' - Kitchin's Winchester, p.19
Minns says:- Of Hyde abbey all that now remains are some portions of the walls, a gateway, and a few small door-ways of the fifteenth century, and some fragments of an earlier period built in the neighbouring walls.
otherwise: New Minster
founded by Edward the Elder, 901
