Sherborne Abbey
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Sherborne Abbey, otherwise the Abbey Church of St. Mary the Virgin, is a Church of England church in Sherborne in the English county of Dorset. It was formerly a Saxon Catholic cathedral and a Benedic
Sherborne Abbey
The nave and chancel looking east
Choir east window by Clayton and Bell 1856 - 1858
Nave west window by John Hayward 1996
Æthelberht, King of Wessex
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Æthelberht was the King of Wessex from 860 until his death in 865. He was the third son of King Æthelwulf by his first wife, Osburh. Æthelberht was first recorded as a witness to a charter in 854. The
Sherborne Abbey
…1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment. The north choir aisle contains two tombs, believed to be the tombs of King Æthelbald of Wessex and his brother King Ethelbert of Wessex, elder brothers to Alfred the Great. Inside the Wykeham chapel is the tomb of Sir John Horsey and his son. Horsey had bought the church after the…
Æthelberht in the early fourteenth-century Genealogical Roll of the Kings of England
Charter S 331, which survives in its original form, dated 862. King Æthelberht granted land at Bromley in Kent to his minister Dryhtwald.
Coin of King Æthelberht dated c. 862
Memorial to Æthelbald ("ETHELBALD") and Æthelberht ("ETHELBERT") in Sherborne Abbey