Abbey of St. Mary Graces
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- Dodding Pond
- Gazetteer (A)
- Gazetteer (D)
- Gazetteer (E)
- Gazetteer (G)
- Gazetteer (N)
- Gazetteer (S)
- Gazetteer (T)
- Historical Personography
- Holy Trinity Churchyard (East Smithfield)
- Survey of London: Portsoken Ward
- Survey of London: Suburbs
- The King’s Storehouse
- The Survey of London (1633): Portsoken Ward
- Variant spellings
The Abbey of St. Mary Graces is a chapel built in
1350 within the Holy Trinity Churchyard and later a
large monastery controlled by the Cistercian order (Harben). The abbey was
built within the aforementioned churchyard, east of Little Tower Hill and
south of Hog Lane (East Smithfield). Stow tells us that during a
tempest King Edward III, in great peril of drowning,
made a vow to build a Monasterie to the honour of God, and our Ladie of grace, if God would grant him grace to come safe to land(Stow). True to his word, the abbey was built and named after his spiritual deliverers. The monastery itself was dissolved in 1539 and granted to Sir Arthur Darcie, who built a storehouse on the site (Harben).
St. Mary Graces Abbey, also called New Abbey, because it was
demolished in 1539, is not featured on the
Agas map. Its site would be to the
northeast side of Little Tower Hill and south of Hog Lane (East
Smithfield), where there is a cluster of houses.
An archaeological excavation of the site was conducted in 1986–1988.
Learn more at
https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/collections/other-collection-databases-and-libraries/centre-human-bioarchaeology/osteological-database/medieval-cemeteries/st-mary-graces.
References
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Citation
Harben, Henry A. A Dictionary of London. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1918.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Citation
Stow, John. A Survey of London. Reprinted from the Text of 1603. Ed. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1908. Remediated by British History Online. [Kingsford edition, courtesy of The Centre for Metropolitan History. Articles written 2011 or later cite from this searchable transcription.]This item is cited in the following documents:
