Helenstowe Nunnery Explained

Helenstowe Nunnery was an Anglo-Saxon nunnery at Abingdon in the English county of Berkshire (now Oxfordshire).

Helenstowe is said to have been founded by a certain Lady Cilla in the 670s. It was probably the nuns' part of a double monastery along with her brother's abbey on Boar's Hill. It is believed to have stood on the site of St Helen's Church.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Abingdon: St. Helen's Church . 7 April 2011 . Ford, David Nash . 2010 . Royal Berkshire History.