The Abbey, Wymondham, Norfolk, England

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Wymondham Priory - it was raised to the status of an Abbey ninety years before its suppression. Founded in 1107 as a community of Benedictine monks, byWilliam D'Aubigny, Chief Butler to King Henry I whose widow, Alice of Louvrain, was later to marry William's son. William was the nephew of Richard d'Aubigny, Abbot of St Alban's, and the new community was made a Priory, or dependency, of the great Abbey of St Alban's, and was dedicated in honour of St Mary the Virgin and St Alban the Martyr. It was only later that the co-patron was changed to St Thomas of Canterbury.

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Location: Wymondham, Norfolk, England
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