Crowland Abbey
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Crowland Abbey is a Church of England parish church, formerly part of a Benedictine abbey church, in Crowland in the English county of Lincolnshire. It is a Grade I listed building.
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Crowland Abbey Lincolnshire Plate Illustration Book Print I. W. Whimper c 1800s
Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria was the last of the Anglo-Saxon earls and the only English aristocrat to be executed during the reign of William I.
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…Orderic not only wrote a monastic history from the time of Guthlac, but also edited a vita of the saint, and composed an account of the death of Earl Waltheof of Northumbria, whose body was laid to rest there. A versified version of the history of Crowland's foundation was made by Henry of Avranches in the…
Statue traditionally identified as Waltheof, at Crowland Abbey in Lincolnshire, west front of ruined nave, 4th tier