Summary Page:  Former House

Name: Beauchief, B.M.V. and St. Thomas of Canturbury

Circary at the Time: Anglia Mediana

Years of Activity: 1173/76-1537

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Map:  Click Here (Source:  © MapQuest  http://www.mapquest.com)

Monasticon Praemonstratense (II, 38)

Approximate modern location: On the banks of the Derwent river, area of Norton, just south of the town of Sheffield, Derbyshire.

Elm-Number [See below]: 25*

Other Comments: Part of the church survives, as well as the Abbey gate.  


* This listing (and the numbers, with a few adjustments after 1995) is based on the map contained in Kaspar Elm's Norbert von Xanten: Adliger, Ordensstifter, Kirchenfürst, Wienand Verlag, Köln, 1984, page 328-329.