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Chertsey Abbey, dedicated to St Peter, was a Benedictine monastery located at Chertsey in the English county of Surrey.〔Herbert E. Brekle, ( Das typographische Prinzip. Versuch einer Begriffsklärung ) in Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1997 vol72, p58–63 (61f.)〕〔Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt, Englische Holzstempelalphabete des XIII. Jahrhunderts in ''Gutenberg-Jahrbuch'' 1940 p93–97.〕 Originally founded by Saint Erkenwald, later Bishop of London, in 666 AD and he became the first abbot. Most of north-west Surrey was granted to the abbey by King Frithuwald of Surrey. Dark Age saints buried here include Saint Beocca, a Dark Ages Catholic Saint from Anglo-Saxon England was also buried here around 870 AD, and ninth century Saint Edor of Chertsey. In the 9th century it was sacked by the Danes and refounded from Abingdon Abbey by King Edgar of England in 964. In the eleventh century the monks engineered the Abbey River as an offshoot of the River Thames to supply power to the abbey's watermill. In late medieval times, the Abbey became famous as the burial place of King Henry VI (whose body was later transferred to St George's Chapel, Windsor). The abbey was dissolved by the commissioners of King Henry VIII in 1537 but the community moved to Bisham. ==Remnants== The site was given to Sir William Fitzwilliam and now only slight traces remain amongst later buildings, although the abbey is remembered in many local names (for example: Abbey River, Monk's Walk, Abbey Fields). Some very fine medieval tiles from the abbey, some depicting the legend of Tristan and Iseult, may be seen in the British Museum.〔(Richard and Saladin; Combat Series; Chertsey tiles ), British Museum page〕 From the ruins of the abbey, individual letter tiles dating to the second half of the 13th century were recovered. They were assembled to form religious inscription texts on the floor and can be considered a forerunner of movable type printing. One of the Abbey's bells, cast by a Wokingham foundry circa 1380 and weighing just over half a ton is still in use as the 5th of the ring of eight at St Peter's church, Chertsey, and is one of the oldest bells in current use in Surrey. A medieval stained glass panel with the abbey's coat of arms is displayed in the Burrell Collection near Glasgow, and the two crossed keys (of Saint Peter) from the arms are also in the official Banner of arms of Surrey County Council. Some illuminated manuscripts from the abbey survive in various collections. The Chertsey Beviary of c. 1300 is in the Bodleian Library in Oxford (Bodley Ms Lat. liturg. d. 42). Chertsey Abbey is mentioned in William Shakespeare's ''Richard III'', Act I, Scene 2. The Worshipful Company of Haberdashers holds the advowson of St Peter's, Chertsey nowadays. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chertsey Abbey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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