Barking Abbey

Barking Abbey was originally a double monastery, founded in the Anglo -Saxon kingdom of Essex. After various municipal reforms, the site of the ruins of the monastery is now in the London borough of Barking and Dagenham.

Erkenwald, Bishop of London, Barking Abbey was built in the year 666 for his later canonized sister Ethelburga, who was also first abbess of the double monastery. On the basis of the original location name, in- Berecingum, may have been assumed that there was the monastery at a place of central importance for the umwohnende population.

Ethelburgas successor as abbess Hildelith, died after 716, Aldhelm dedicated his treatise on virginity. Excavations prove the prosperity under Hildelith.

In the second half of the 10th century King Edgar founded the monastery as a Benedictine monastery restarted, and St. Wulfhild the first abbess was.

The monastery was Barking, during the construction of the Tower of London, the residence of William the Conqueror immediately after his coronation in December of 1066.

During the Reformation, the monastery was dissolved in 1541 on the orders of Henry VIII. The buildings were then used as a source of building materials. Later, a farm was established on the site.

Today is, a constituency of the district of Barking and Dagenham Abbey, according to the excavated ruins of the monastery.

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