Bruern
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  Bruern Location within Oxfordshire | |
| Population | 62 (2001 census)[1] |
| OS grid reference | SP2518 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Postcode district | OX7 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
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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
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 2013. 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
- ^ "Area selected: West Oxfordshire (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
- ^ Page, 1907, page 59
- ^ a b c Page, 1907, pages 59-61
- ^ Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, pages 499-500
- ^ Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 500
- ^ 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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