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4 unusual facts about Werburgh


Gresford

At this time the bishopric was transferred from that of St. Werburgh's Chester to St. Asaph, and the vicars of the village were Welsh with patronymic names (for example, Morud ap Gwarius, who became vicar in 1284).

Mount Barker, Western Australia

St Werburghs Chapel was built in 1872 with walls made from chopped straw and clay and woodwork formed from local jarrah.

St. Werburgh's Church, Dublin

Werburgh's Church is a Church of Ireland church in Dublin, Ireland, and was built in 1178, shortly after the arrival of the Anglo-Normans in the town, and named after St. Werburgh, abbess of Ely and patron saint of Chester who died in 699 AD.

Warburton, Greater Manchester

Although the Domesday Book records no church in Warburton, it is possible that the church dedicated to Saint Werburgh is pre-Conquest.


Abbey Gateway

Abbey Gateway, Chester, the former gateway of St Werburgh's Abbey in Chester, England

Hoo St Werburgh

The first church of Hoo St Werburgh may have been built in the reign of the 8th century King Æthelbald of Mercia, though presumably a monastery existed nearby at an earlier time.

St Werburgh's Church, Bristol

St Werburgh's Church, Bristol, is a former church, now a climbing centre in the St Werburghs area of central north-east Bristol, England.

St Werburgh's Church, Warburton

Werburgh, an Anglo-Saxon saint who has given her name to Warburgtune, as Warburton was called in the Domesday survey (1086), was the daughter of Wulfhere, the first Christian king of Mercia.

St. Werburgh's Church, Dublin

By 1559 the nearby church of St. Mary del Dam on Dame Street was closed and its parish incorporated in that of St. Werburgh’s, which meant that St. Werburgh’s became the parish church of Dublin Castle.


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