Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| nunnery, Carlisle | ||
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| locality:- | Carlisle | |
| civil parish:- | Carlisle (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | religious house | |
| locality type:- | nunnery | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3955 (?) | |
| 10Km square:- | NY35 | |
| references:- | Farington 1816 |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Farington 1816 |
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| source data:- | Descriptive text:- ... Capgrave says, that St. Cuthbert founded a nunnery at Carlisle, and placed an abbess in it, when he visited that city; but this is erroneous; for it appears by Bede's Life of Cuthbert, that the nunnery was of older date; for that author, who was his contemporary, relates, that the object of his journey was to obtain an audience of Queen Ermengard (wife of Egfrid King of Northumberland,) who was then on a visit to her sister, the abbess of that house. We have no other record or memorial of this nunnery, which was destroyed by the Danes, and very slender notices of a nunnery said to have been founded by David, King of Scotland, ... item:- Armitt Library : A6666.25 Image © see bottom of page |
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