Bruern

Bruern
Bruern
Bruern shown within Oxfordshire
Population 62 (2001 census)[1]
OS grid reference SP2518
Civil parish
  • Bruern
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Postcode district OX7
Police Thames Valley
Fire Oxfordshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament

Bruern or Bruern Abbey is a hamlet and civil parish on the River Evenlode about 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Burford in West Oxfordshire.

Cistercian Abbey

House on the Bruern Abbey site.

In 1147 Nicholas Basset founded a Cistercian Abbey here[2] as a daughter house of Waverley Abbey in Surrey. The Abbey owned property in west Oxfordshire, east Gloucestershire and at Priddy in Somerset.[3] In 1382 the abbey also bought the manor of Fifield, Oxfordshire.[3] The abbey was dissolved in October 1536.[3]

After the dissolution the Abbey became the property of Sir Anthony Cope of Hanwell, Oxfordshire, ancestor of the Cope baronets. In 1720 a baroque country house was built for the Cope family, possibly on the site of the former abbey.[4] A Georgian cottage in the grounds of the house includes a three-bay vaulted chamber which may be a remnant of the original abbey buildings.[5]

Michael Bishop, Baron Glendonbrook, purchased the 18th-century property in 2012. The Abbey has been completely refurbished under his ownership, including the installation of 'a large and impressive cantilever stone staircase and twenty-five kilometres of data cabling' as well as a 'large underground car park'.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Area selected: West Oxfordshire (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
  2. ↑ Page, 1907, page 59
  3. 1 2 3 Page, 1907, pages 59-61
  4. ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, pages 499-500
  5. ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 500
  6. ↑ Vickers, Alan. "Sympathetic Refurbishment of Bruern Abbey", The Wychwood, Volume 36 No 4, October/November 2015

Sources

  • New, Anthony (1985). A Guide to the Abbeys of England And Wales. London: Constable. p. 80–81. ISBN 0-09-463520-X.
  • Page, W.H, ed. (1907). A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 2. Victoria County History. Archibald Constable & Co. pp. 79–81.
  • Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin. pp. 499–500. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
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