| Description |
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| Reading Museum's information resources about Reading Abbey. There are three links: the first is to the Museum's Abbey Quarter website which gives comprehensive information about the abbey and ruins. The second and third links are to the Museum's Facebook and Twitter pages, which provide up-to-date information about progress on the Reading Abbey Revealed project. Please note: you do not need to have a Facebook or Twitter account to read these pages. |
Reading Museum's Abbey Quarter website
Reading Museum's Abbey Quarter Facebook page
Reading Museum's Abbey Quarter Twitter page
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| English Heritage: List entry for "Reading Abbey Ruins" as a Grade I Listed Building |
English Heritage - Reading Abbey: Grade I listed building |
| English Heritage: List entry for "Abbey Gate" as a Grade I Listed Building |
English Heritage - Reading Abbey Inner Gateway: Grade I listed building |
| English Heritage: List entry for "Reading Abbey: a Cluniac and Benedictine monastery and Civil War earthwork" as a Scheduled Ancient Monument |
English Heritage - Reading Abbey scheduled as Ancient Monument
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| The former Reading Prison, which closed in 2013, is located within the Abbey Quarter. Reading Borough Council have set out guidelines on the future of the site in this Reading Prison Framework document. The link takes you to RBC's Planning Policy page. The Framework document can be found as a pdf file in the fourth section "Supplementary Planning Documents - Sites" |
Reading Borough Council - Reading Prison Framework
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| Reading Museum’s online collections website. Photographs of paintings and other images relating to Reading Abbey can be found by searching for ‘Reading Abbey’ in the search box in the top right corner
| Reading Museum Collections Online |
| The Reading Borough Libraries website has an extensive set of images of the Abbey ruins. They can be viewed as follows: click on the link, enter in the search box the word "illustrations " followed by a search word such as "Reading Abbey" or "ruins" and click the red/white arrow button. To view an illustration, click on the thumbnail icon for it. Illustrations of Reading scenes categorised by Subject may be viewed by clicking on the Local Illustrations tab on the Search screen | Reading Borough Libraries - illustrations |
| Heritage Gateway (managed by English heritage). This page includes links to information about separate parts of Reading Abbey ("Associated Monuments"), and contains a list of bibliographic Sources. |
Heritage Gateway - Reading Abbey |
| Pastscape (English Heritage website) entry on Reading Abbey |
Pastscape - Reading Abbey |
| Wikipedia entry for Reading Abbey | Reading Abbey in Wikipedia |
| Wikimedia Commons: Images of King Henry I, founder of Reading Abbey |
Henry I images |
| Berkshire Archaeological Journal: articles about Reading Abbey. This PDF file contains a list of volumes of the journal which have articles about Reading Abbey. | Berkshire Archaeological Journal PDF file |
The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, section on Reading Abbey. Contains (in the map below the set of images) links to articles about sites in the town centre with material from the Abbey, including 35 London St (RISC Centre) and Reading Minster Church of St Mary the Virgin.
To obtain a full-scale view of an image, click on it, then click on the larger version of the image which appears above the set of images |
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture - Reading Abbey |
| Link to the pages in English of "Sites Clunisiens", a French website containing extensive information about Cluniac sites around Europe |
Cluniac sites |
| The Abbot of Reading was a witness at the 1297 sealing of Magna Carta, when its provisions were made part of statute law. Three of these provisions remain as part of UK law. The link is to current UK legislation, showing the three provisions still current, with the list of witnesses including the Abbot of Reading (spelt Reding) | Magna Carta (1297 Charter) |
| British History Online articles on "The borough of Reading: The borough" and "Houses of Benedictine Monks: The Abbey of Reading" |
British History Online - Reading
British History Online - Reading Abbey |
| David Nash Ford's "Royal Berkshire History": articles on Reading and Reading Abbey |
Royal Berkshire History - Reading
Royal Berkshire History - Reading Abbey |
| Britannia "Tour and Travel Guide to the British Isles", article on Reading by David Nash Ford | Britannia Tour and Travel Guide - Reading |
| Tudor Place is a website run by an Argentine interested in the Tudors. The link points to an article about Reading Abbey. Note that the Home page links in Tudor Place may not work - remove the final "l" from "html" in the website's address (so "...html" reads ...htm"), then press Return |
Tudor Place - Reading Abbey |
| Catholic Online, article about Reading Abbey. A footnote corrects the initial statement that Reading is in Surrey | Catholic Online - Reading Abbey |
| The book "Lives of the English Martyrs declared Blessed by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and 1895" has a section about Hugh Cook Faringdon, the last Abbot of Reading | Lives of the English Martyrs - Hugh Cook Faringdon |
| Paper on "Cluniac Reading and Paisley" by Harriet Mahood. The text can be read without downloading - click the grey cross in the initial window | Cluniac Reading and Paisley |
| Brief history of Reading School describing its origins in Reading Abbey, by the Old Redingensian Association's archivist Ken Brown. Downloads as a PDF file | Reading School |
| Leonard Cox was a 15th century scholar appointed in 1529 as master of Reading School (which at that time would have been a part of the Abbey) by Abbot Hugh Cook Faringdon. This article about him was written by Martin Murphy and appears in Humanistica Lovaniensia (a department in Leuven University), pages 75-95. A link is also given to the Wikipedia article about Leonard Cox.
| Leonard Cox
Wikipedia article
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