Layton visited Keynsham Abbey in August, 1535. The surrender of the abbey began a 400-year period of disassembly and robbing the site for suitable building materials. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It lies beside the River Chew in the Chew Valley. In 1353, the bishop visited again, and found there to be great neglect throughout the abbey. [12], In the 20th century the population of Keynsham grew, partly due to the construction of the Somerdale Factory. The church was originally closely associated with Keynsham Abbey until its dissolution in 1539. This account has been disabled. There was a minster church at Keynsham by the ninth century. [5], The Anglican parish church of St John the Baptist gradually evolved until taking its present general form during the reign of Charles II, after the spire over the north aisle collapsed into the building during a storm in 1632. St. John the Baptist church is one of five churches in the Church of England Parish of Keynsham,[21] the others being the village churches of St. Michael's in Burnett and St. Margaret's in Queen Charlton, the "Mission Church" in Chewton Keynsham (formerly the school building), and St. Francis' Church on the Park Estate which in 2013 - 2015 underwent extensive modernisation and offers two halls for use by community groups. It is part of the ceremonial county of Somerset. * As a relatively well preserved element of the Medieval abbey, other elements of which are listed and scheduled. There is a problem with your email/password. The abbey was es­tab­lished as a house of Au­gus­tin­ian canons reg­u­lar, and op­er­ated until the dis­so­lu­tion of the monas­ter­ies in 1539. To upload a spreadsheet, please use the old site.

There had been a religious settlement in Keynsham during the 9th and 10th centuries,[1] but the main abbey was founded by William, Earl of Gloucester, the year of his son's Robert's death in 1166, and traditionally at his son's dying request. [6], The house built by the Bridges family was demolished in 1776. Glastonbury Abbey was a monastery in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. * For its early date, Keynsham Abbey precinct wall has been designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: The remains of the Abbey on the original site include the lower parts of the south transept of the Abbey Church with adjoining parts of the church aisles. [2] It was founded as a house of Augustinian canons regular, or priests living in a monastic community and performing clerical duties. Rome2rio makes travelling from Keynsham to Abbey Wood easy.

In the 1960s a major restoration was undertaken with further work on the organ in 1986, 1991 and 2000.[15]. For Thomas Bilbie casted me; JavaScript is required for this feature, but it is either disabled or not supported by your browser. [2], The arms of the abbey included six golden clarions or trumpets on a red ground, from the de Clares, Earls of Gloucester. They also formed a unit for the collection of taxes. Its ruins, a grade I listed building and scheduled ancient monument, are open as a visitor attraction. The doors were again unguarded, household accounts were not properly kept, prayers were not attended to regularly, and up to 2/3 of the canons were regularly missing community meals and engaging in gaming. Photos larger than 8.0 MB will be reduced. The woodwork was affected by deathwatch beetle and wet rot and repair work costing over £15,000 was needed.

The precinct to the abbey was denoted by a wall on the west and the river Chew on the east. In 1843 the south porch was being used as a coal store and the roof was leaking. History: Augustinian Keynsham Abbey was founded around 1170 by William Earl of Gloucester. Keynsham Abbey located in Keynsham, Somerset, England, was a monastic abbey founded c. 1166 by William, Earl of Gloucester. Please do not contact BritishListedBuildings.co.uk for any queries related to any individual listed building,

The average journey time between Keynsham and Filton Abbey Wood is 26 minutes. To suggest a correction or addition, visit the memorial page and click Suggest Edits. He rebuilt the vicarage for his 13 children, established a church school, and raised money for the restoration of the church itself. In 1353, the bishop visited again, and found there to be great neglect throughout the abbey. The Chew Stoke flood of 1968 inundated large parts of the town. The remains are a scheduled ancient monument and are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. [9] In the 1850s George Robinson was appointed as vicar and revitalised the church. In the 1860s it was moved to the east end of the south aisle and then, in 1880s enlarged and the console moved to the chancel with the pipes being positioned behind the screen. The Church of St John the Baptist, is an Anglican parish church in Keynsham, Somerset, England. [22], Location of Church of St John the Baptist in Somerset, List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells, "Church of St John the Baptist (1384628)", "Claver Morris, an Early Eighteenth-Century English Physician and Amateur Musician Extraordinaire", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Church_of_St_John_the_Baptist,_Keynsham&oldid=891686839, 13th-century churches in the United Kingdom, Church of England church buildings in Bath and North East Somerset, Grade II* listed buildings in Bath and North East Somerset, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 9 April 2019, at 14:45. The Sanctus Bell of 1531 hangs in the belfry but does not form part of the peal. In 1276, King Edward I stayed at the Abbey on his way from Bath to Bristol. At the 2011 census it had a population of 1,119. On an average weekday, there are 22 trains travelling from Keynsham to Filton Abbey Wood. Around 1270 a church was built for the people of the town with the Abbey being responsible for the chancel and the town for the rest of the church, although the relationship between the abbey and townsfolk was strained at various times until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539. Amongst the finds was a fipple flute, a type of early recorder. Later walling has been added on top and in one area a short length of the wall has been removed and re-built. An archeological excavation was made in advance of the construction. [3] This also included numerous parish properties such as the church of St. Mary and St. Peter and St. Paul and the chapels of Brislington, Charlton, Felton (or Whitchurch), Publow and Pensford. Mervyn Wedgewood took over as the vicar in 1956 as the town expanded further. Please contact Find a Grave at support@findagrave.com if you need help resetting your password. Dating back to the 13th century, the church was originally closely associated with Keynsham Abbey, built in the 12th century, until its dissolution in 1539. Prosser has looked at the papers in detail and revealed 96 additional references to Keynsham Abbey (Prosser 1995: 176).

Currently used as a garden ornament about 40m south of No.3 Abbey Park (not included). In the 12th century Keynsham Abbey was founded and served as the place of worship for the town. The old church rooms were demolished to make way for a bypass, in the 1960s and the compensation money used for the construction of a new church hall and vicarage. The site has been inhabited since prehistoric times, and was also the site of a 4th-century Roman settlement, possibly called Trajectus, which was abandoned after the withdrawal of the Roman legions from Britain. In 1276, King Edward I stayed at the Abbey on his way from Bath to Bristol. In 1961 much of the cloister and nave was destroyed during the construction of the Keynsham by-pass. The wall is faced with dressed limestone blocks standing up to 12 courses high.

Two separate lengths of abbey precinct wall survive above the ground at Keynsham. It lies in the Chew Valley, approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of Bristol and 8 miles (13 km) west of Bath.

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[6] Victorian house builders and excavators began actively taking stone from the site in 1865, and continued until the turn of the century, until only isolated stretches of unsuitable stone or stone buried under discarded material were left. The Hundred of Keynsham is one of the 40 historical Hundreds in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, dating from before the Norman conquest during the Anglo-Saxon era although exact dates are unknown. [2] It was founded as a house of Augustinian canons regular, or priests living in a monastic community and performing clerical duties.