Information for record number MWA13139:
Site of possible minster church, Coleshill

Summary Site of possible old minster church pre-Conquest, in the Blythe valley, on or close to the present church of St Peter and St Paul.
What Is It?  
Type: Minster?
Period: Early medieval (801 AD - 1065 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Coleshill
District: North Warwickshire, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 20 89
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Level of Protection Local
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2 Site of possible old minster church, Coleshill. As an important royal centre, Coleshill was a logical place for a pre-Conquest minster church, the church being the centre of the Deanery of Arden, which may have roughly corresponded with the Coleshill Hundred extent. Coleshill's importance during the Anglo-Saxon period is hinted at by the Domesday Book which shows that it was a royal vill (manor). Domesday survey also records the presence of a priest, hinting at a church; and from a later source from 1280 which records John de Clinton selling the advowson of Coleshill and the chapels of Le Leye, Overwhitacre and Nether Whitacre. These dependent chapels were still under Coleshill until the Reformation.
 
Sources
Source No: 2
Source Type: Article in serial
Title: Dugdale Society Occasional Papers
Author/originator: S. Bassett
Date: 2001
Page Number: 1 - 33
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Source No: 1
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Warwickshire Extensive Urban Survey Coleshill Assessment
Author/originator: B Morton
Date: 2011
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source Domesday Book The Domesday Book was commissioned in December 1085 by William the Conqueror, who invaded England in 1066. It contains records for about 13,000 medieval settlements in the English counties south of the rivers Ribble and Tees (the border with Scotland at the time). The Domesday Book is a detailed record of the lands and their resources that belonged to the king. It also records the identity of the landholders and their tenants. back
period Medieval 1066 AD to 1539 AD (the 11th century AD to the 16th century AD)

The medieval period comes after the Saxon period and before the post medieval period.

The Medieval period begins in 1066 AD.
This was the year that the Normans, led by William the Conqueror (1066 – 1087), invaded England and defeated Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in East Sussex.
The Medieval period includes the first half of the Tudor period (1485 – 1603 AD), when the Tudor family reigned in England and eventually in Scotland too.

The end of the Medieval period is marked by Henry VIII’s (1509 – 1547) order for the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the years running up to 1539 AD. The whole of this period is sometimes called the Middle Ages.
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monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument MINSTER * A complex of buildings, often within an enclosure, housing a pre-Benedictine Reform secular religious community. Now commonly used to describe the main church within such a complex, which over time attained higher status. back
monument DEANERY * The official residence of a dean. back
monument CHURCH * A building used for public Christian worship. Use more specific type where known. back
monument MANOR * An area of land consisting of the lord's demesne and of lands from whose holders he may exact certain fees, etc. back
monument CHAPEL * A freestanding building, or a room or recess serving as a place of Christian worship in a church or other building. Use more specific type where known. back
monument VILL * Small discreet rural settlements which do not provide the commercial, legal or ecclesiastical services typically found within medieval urban areas. back
monument DEPENDENT CHAPEL * A place of worship for the sect known as 'Cokelers', formed circa 1850 by John Sirgood. Most aspects of Dependent belief are fairly orthodox within the Arminian traditions of Protestant dissent. Chapels can be found in Sussex, Surrey, London and Kent. back

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