Review Extras
The King departs only to return
By Martyn Taylor The shrine of St Edmund at the abbey visited by kings and queens over time would...
A Momentous Century
By Martyn Taylor The Abbey experienced two cataclysmic disasters when in 1430 the great western Tower fell and in...
The Town rebels and more trouble
By Martyn Taylor In 1327 a year of national unrest with the grim demise of Edward II the town...
A Final Resting Place
By Martyn Taylor One of only a surviving handful in this country, the Chapel of the Charnel was a...
The Abbott’s Bridge
By Martyn Taylor Circa 1211, the land on the east side of the River Lark came to be used...
After Samson – Magna Carta
By Martyn Taylor Samson reversed the disastrous financial fortunes of the Abbey by protecting its privileges. Even to the...
A Tree in the right place
By Sarah Green A full version of an article which appeared in the Spring 2021 Review in an edited...
Samson and life in the Abbey
By Martyn Taylor Much is known about Abbot Samson of Tottington, Norfolk thanks to an amazing account of abbey...
Abbotts Anselm and Ording
By Martyn Taylor After Baldwins death there was a period of unsettlement when three other abbots came and went...
The Confessor’s Gift and Abbott Baldwin
By Martyn Taylor The Confessor’s Gift Edward the Confessor, the son of Ethelred the ‘Unready’ and Emma of Normandy...