Name Index

To

Canonsleigh

Trans. Devon. Assoc. vol. 24 (1892) illus., pp. 359-376.

by

F.T. Elworthy

Prepared by Michael Steer

Canonsleigh Abbey in Burlescombe parish was founded in about 1161 by William de Claville, lord of the manor of Burlescombe for the Augustinian Canons Regular as the Priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint John the Evangelist. The remains today consist of a substantial 15th-century gatehouse, now within the yard of Canonsleigh Barton farm, and to the east lie fragments of a wall possibly once part of a mill. The priory as originally named Legh Canonicorum. The paper presents a list of the Abbesses. Google with the Archive Organization has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. The Internet Archive makes available, in its Community Texts Collection (originally known as Open Source Books), books that have been digitised by Google from a number of libraries. These are books on which copyright has expired, and are available free for educational and research use. This rare book was produced from a copy held by the University of Michigan Library, and is available from the Internet Archive.