Summary Page: Former House
Name: Beauchief, B.M.V. and St. Thomas of Canturbury
Circary at the Time: Anglia Mediana
Years of Activity: 1173/76-1537
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Monasticon Praemonstratense (II, 38)
Approximate modern location: On the banks of the Derwent river, area of Norton, just south of the town of Sheffield, Derbyshire.
Elm-Number [See below]: 25*
Other Comments: Part of the church survives, as well as the Abbey gate.
* This listing (and the numbers, with a few adjustments after 1995) is based on the map contained in Kaspar Elm's Norbert von Xanten: Adliger, Ordensstifter, Kirchenfürst, Wienand Verlag, Köln, 1984, page 328-329.