Brixworth Abbey
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Brixworth Abbey was a monastic house in Northamptonshire
, England
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The church, thought to have been of basilican plan, was devastated during the Danish invasion of 876, and converted into a parish church in the tenth century, when the original western entrance was formed into a tower.
Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire is a landlocked county in the English East Midlands, with a population of 629,676 as at the 2001 census. It has boundaries with the ceremonial counties of Warwickshire to the west, Leicestershire and Rutland to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire to the south-east,...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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The church, thought to have been of basilican plan, was devastated during the Danish invasion of 876, and converted into a parish church in the tenth century, when the original western entrance was formed into a tower.