Academic literature on the topic 'St. Michael's Church (Aldbourne) – History'

Пятницкий монастырь располагался в конце XVI - XVII в. на дороге между крепостями Ям и Ивангород. Каменный монастырский храм, выстроенный между 1577 и 1581 гг., был заброшен в XVII в., в 1780 г. восстановлен и освящен в честь Архистратига Михаила. Функционировал в качестве приходского до 1938 г., разрушен в ходе боевых действий и немецкой оккупации в 1941 г. В 2018-2019 гг. раскопками исследованы фундаменты сохранившейся северной части храма. Южная часть полностью уничтожена карьером. Реконструирована строительная история храма в конце XVI - начале XX в. Раскрыты очертания древнего каменного трехапсидного четырех-столпного храма, фундаменты которого сложены из плиты на растворе. Этот храм последней трети XVI в. предположительно построен псковскими мастерами. In late 16th and 17th centuries, Pyatnitsky (St. Paraskeve's) monastery was located on the road between fortresses Yam and Ivangorod. The stone monastery church was built between 1577 and 1581, then abandoned in the 17th century and restored and reconsecrated to St. Archangel Michael in 1780. Until 1938, it was a parish church, then was destroyed during the war and the German occupation in 1941. In 2018 and 2019, the fragments of the surviving northern wall of the church were excavated and studied. The southern part of the church has been obliterated and gave way to a sand pit. After the excavation, it has become possible to reconstruct the building history of the church from late 16th to early 20th century. Outlines of the old stone three-apse and four-column church have been traced, with its surviving fragments made of plinthiform bricks bound together by mortar. This church must have been build by a Pskov team of masons in the last decades of the 16th century.

Early in March 1554 the three English reformers and later Oxford martyrs, the archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, the former bishop of Worcester, Hugh Latimer, and the bishop of London, Nicholas Ridley, were transported to the supposedly safe location of Oxford to expedite their trials. Their stay in Oxford, however, turned out to be a long one, lasting until their execution by burning outside the Northgate there: Latimer and Ridley on 16 October 1555; Cranmer on 21 March 1556. During the time they spent in Oxford – between nineteen and twenty-four months – they were usually confined apart from one another, in a number of locations, by the municipal officials responsible to the crown for their safekeeping: the mayor and the two bailiffs of Oxford. Cranmer, the most important and politically the most sensitive of the prisoners, appears to have spent most of his long confinement in the Bocardo, the local prison over the town's Northgate next to St Michael's church. Latimer and Ridley, on the other hand, spent considerable time privately boarded in the houses of, respectively, the bailiffs and the mayor, and Ridley, in particular, seems to have been able to maintain regular written and personal contact with their supporters and sympathisers. Their confinement must have put the three reformers, all of them Cambridge graduates, into a variety of contacts with local residents, but records for only two of those relationships have survived, and from diametrically opposite sources.