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ABBEY OF SAINT MARY OF GRACES


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/201

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: ABBEY OF SAINT MARY OF GRACES

Date(s): 1538

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 production unit.

Name of creator(s): Abbey of St Mary Graces | London

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Saint Mary Graces was a small Cistercian Abbey founded in 1349 by Edward III near East Smithfield, a liberty next to the Tower of London. It was also known as East Minster and New Abbey.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Lease by the abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Graces beside the Tower of London of a tenement with a yard in Fenchurch Street.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One document.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: August to October 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Abbeys | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Cistercian order | Religious communities | Religious institutions
Leases (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Abbey of St Mary Graces | London

Places
Smithfield | City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe