Streaneshalch

Monastery · two years after Bede’s own 655 · Whitby Abbey

Hild's double house, built on land Oswy gave in thanksgiving for the Winwaed. Within a decade it held the synod at which the Northumbrian church settled its Easter, and it schooled five bishops.

The year is derived; the date above says from what.

Who

Nobody here yet — the sources name a founder this dataset does not hold.

Where

  • Whitby Abbey the site; this page is the community that sat on it

Other monastery houses

  • Monte Cassino about 529 (Gardner, 1911 — not Gregory) · Abbey of Monte Cassino
  • Clonmacnoise 547 · Clonmacnoise
  • Iona 565 · Iona
  • Lindisfarne 635 (the edition’s margin; Bede does not date it) · Lindisfarne
  • Bercingum before 674, the edition’s date for Earconwald’s consecration · Barking Abbey
  • Kellia no year is recorded · Kellia
  • The Monastery of the Caves no year is recorded · Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
  • Nitria no year is recorded · Nitria
  • Sublacum no year is recorded · Subiaco

After Ecclesiastical History of the English People · HE III.24 (two years after the marginal 655).