7″W / 51.476722°N 0.311861°W / 51.476722; -0.311861 Syon Abbey /ˈsaɪən/, also called simply Syon, was a dual monastery of men and women of the Bridgettine...
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eclectic interior of Syon House was designed by the architect Robert Adam in the 1760s. Syon House derives its name from Syon Abbey, a medieval monastery...
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the time it was the second-wealthiest nunnery in England, behind only Syon Abbey. Alfred the Great founded the convent in about 888 and installed his daughter...
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syon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Syon can mean: an alternative spelling of Zion Syon, Isleworth, London, England Syon Abbey, or simply Syon,...
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a Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation. Syon was the site of Sion Abbey, which was founded in 1415 and named after Mount Zion in Jerusalem...
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Brentford (section The Syon estate)
and Edmund Ironside 1431 Relocation of Syon Abbey to Brentford from Twickenham 1539 Destruction of Syon Abbey by King Henry VIII 1616 – 1617 Pocahontas...
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Love by Julian of Norwich and The Orcherd of Syon, which translated Catherine of Siena's Dialogue. Syon Abbey's Tudor gatepost in marble, on which parts of...
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Mount" which referred to the church of St Michael atop Glastonbury Tor. Syon Abbey, a monastery of the Bridgettine Order, acquired the Mount in 1424. Some...
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the Syon Abbey, founded in Twickenham by Henry V. He was born in Devon in 1492, educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and joined the Abbey in...
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means to support herself and her children that she was forced to live at Syon Abbey as the guest of the Bridgettine nuns. She remained there until she returned...
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stones. The manor and its mill were given by King Henry V to the nuns of Syon Abbey. At the Dissolution the manor was sold to Richard Duke, in whose family's...
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The ancient Wyke Lane (now called Syon Lane) still exists, connecting Osterley with the former nunnery of Syon Abbey. In 1444, Wyke manor belonged to John...
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recent foundation of those suppressed was the Bridgettine nunnery of Syon Abbey founded in 1415. Typically, 11th and 12th-century founders had endowed...
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Tower, Lady Margaret fell ill, and the king allowed her to be moved to Syon Abbey under the supervision of the abbess. There are many reports that her illness...
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one monk and one priest left the abbey under great celebrations for the foundation of what became the famed Syon Abbey. After the introduction of the Reformation...
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architectural commissions (such as his completion of his father's foundation of Syon Abbey) consisted of a late Gothic or Perpendicular-style church with a monastic...
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traditional source of starch for stiffening clothes. In 1440, the nuns of Syon Abbey in England used the roots of the cuckoo-pint flower to make starch for...
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(from Latin). This was done in celebration of the 600th anniversary of Syon Abbey, founded in 1415 by King Henry V. Following the Oxford Movement in the...
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first detained in her apartments and then placed under house arrest at Syon Abbey, a disused convent. Her confidantes and favourites were questioned and...
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Chudleigh Abbey was an abbey in Chudleigh, Devon, England. St Bridget's Abbey of Syon had existed since 1415, returning to Spetisbury in Dorset in 1861...
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Carthusians, and in Syon Abbey, the only English house of the Birgittine order (founded 1415). In 2001, he published Syon Abbey, Corpus of British Medieval...
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life to be published before the Reformation”. Bonde was a brother at Syon Abbey. He published Pilgrimage of Perfection in English rather than Latin, to...
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Henry V of England (category Burials at Westminster Abbey)
Henry VI. He also contributed to the founding of the monastery of the Syon Abbey, completed by Henry VI during his lifetime. In the 16th century the monastery...
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river to pass Syon Park. The parish itself is pre-Norman. A vicar replacing its rector is recorded in 1290 in records associated with Syon Abbey who gave his...
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order. She also consulted with Richard Reynolds, a Bridgettine monk of Syon Abbey. He arranged a meeting between Barton and Thomas More, who was impressed...
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son, Henry Carey, was educated at the prestigious Brigettine nunnery of Syon Abbey. Anne arranged for Nicholas Bourbon, exiled from France for his support...
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stripped of her title as queen on 23 November 1541 and imprisoned in the new Syon Abbey, Middlesex, formerly a convent, where she remained throughout the winter...
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Sheen Priory, and take her daughter and infant son with her to live in Syon Abbey. Prince Henry succeeds his father as Henry VIII, and immediately marries...
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Bridget of Sweden (category Burials at Vadstena Abbey)
Saviour of Saint Bridget The Syon Breviary – The Daily Office of Our Lady – Now in English, commemorating 600 years of Syon Abbey. Two engravings by the Pseudo-Dürer...
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Thomas Betson (d. 1516) was a writer who worked as the librarian of Syon Abbey, Middlesex where he served as a deacon from 1481 until the end of his life...
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