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:''not to be confused with Wroxell Manor on the Isle of Wight.'' Wroxall Abbey is today a substantial Victorian mansion house situated at Wroxall, Warwickshire which has been converted for use as an hotel, spa, wedding venue and conference centre. It is a Grade II listed building. The estate was occupied for some 400 years by Wroxall Priory, a Benedictine order of nuns, until the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII in 1536. In 1544 the King granted the estate to Robert Burgoyne of Sutton, Bedfordshire(d 1545) who had been one of the King's Commissioners for the Dissolution. His son Robert (d 1613), High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1597, built a manor house in Elizabethan style adjacent to the Priory ruins. The Burgoyne family ( later Burgoyne baronets) occupied the manor until 1713 when they sold it together with , to Sir Christopher Wren. Wren used the house as his country retreat, and it was occupied from time to time by members of his family, including his great-great-grandson Christopher Roberts Wren, High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1820. Later descendants sold the estate in 1861 to James Dugdale, High Sheriff of Warwickshire 1868, who demolished the old manor house and replaced it with an imposing mansion, thereafter to be known as Wroxall Abbey, in the Victorian Gothic style. The Lady Chapel adjacent to the Hall, now a church dedicated to St Leonard, and popularly known as Wren's Cathedral, is a Grade I listed building.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Name: CHURCH OF ST LEONARD List entry Number: 1035066 )〕 It is a cathedral of the Free Methodist Church and is used for regular services and weddings. The nearby ruins of the 12th century abbey are Grade II * listed. The house was let and was occupied as a girl's school from 1936 to 1995. In 1995 the estate was purchased by the Quinn family, who leased it to a commercial company in 2001. The present lessees have converted the estate into a hotel. Image:Mansion Blue Sky Rear.jpg|Mansion rear Image:Mansion front.jpg|Wroxall Abbey Entrance Image:Wren's Cathedral.jpg|Wren's Cathedral Image:Wren's Cathedral 2.jpg|Wren's Cathedral ==References== * ( ''A History of the County of Warwick, Volume 3'' (1945) pp215-220 Wroxall from British History Online ) * ( English Heritage; Images of England- 1990 description ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wroxall Abbey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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