• Beauchief Abbey is a medieval monastic house now serving as a parish church in the southern suburbs of Sheffield, England. History.
  • Sometime between 1172 and 1176, Robert FitzRanulf founded an abbey for monks of the Premonstratensian order at Beauchief, on the outskirts of modern Sheffield.
  • The suburb of Beauchief takes its name from the small abbey, founded on the southern border of Hallamshire over eight hundred years ago.
  • My grandfather was born on Beauchief Abbey Farm and my great grandfather was buried in the graveyard having farmed there for years.
  • In 1536 Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries forced Beauchief Abbey to be stripped of its roof and the windows were broken.
  • Built in honor of Saint Thomas Becket in the year 1183, this revered abbey finds itself in the midst of the spotless lawns and glossy pathways of the Beauchief...
  • BEAUCHIEF-ABBEY, an extra-parochial liberty and a chapelry in the district of Ecclesall-Bierlow, and county of Derby.
  • The Beauchief Abbey church continues today to explore and promote the Christian life in ways that are both modern and traditional.
  • The Abbey is set in acres of parkland for you to to discover. ... Technically Beauchief Abbey is a Liberty within the Diocese of Sheffield.
  • . Beauchief Abbey was founded as a daughter establishment of Welbeck Abbey, thanks to a gift of land by Robert FitzRanulph, Lord of Alfreton, in about 1176.