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Ely Abbey

Shrine to St Etheldreda reconstructed by Thomas Dinham Atkinson

Ely Abbey was an Anglo-Saxon monastic establishment on the Isle of Ely first established in 673 by Æthelthryth the daughter of Anna, King of East Anglia.[1] The first establishment was destroyed by the Danes in 870, but Edgar, King of England re-established the monastery in 970 as part of the English Benedictine Reform.

  1. ^ "Houses of Benedictine monks: Abbey and cathedral priory of Ely". Victoria County History. 2 (A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely): 199–210. 1948. Retrieved 24 April 2024.

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