The Church of St Mary and St Melor is the parish church of the town of Amesbury, Wiltshire. The Grade I listed church dates from the 12th century and may be connected with the 10th-century Amesbury Pr
Church of St Mary and St Melor, Amesbury, from SE
South elevation
Mélar depicted in Chapelle Saint-Brieuc, Plonivel, Finistère, with severed hand
The chancel in 2018
Amesbury Abbey
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Amesbury Abbey was a Benedictine abbey of women at Amesbury in Wiltshire, England, founded by Queen Ælfthryth in about the year 979 on what may have been the site of an earlier monastery. The abbey wa
Church of St Mary and St Melor, Amesbury
…Wiltshire. The Grade I listed church dates from the 12th century and may be connected with the 10th-century Amesbury Priory or its 12th-century successor, Amesbury Abbey. The 1086 Domesday Book did not record a church or priest at Amesbury…
Church of St Mary and St Melor, Amesbury
Engraving of Robert of Arbrissel effigy (now lost) at Fontevraud
Henry II, founder of the Priory
South elevation, Amesbury Abbey, c. 1900