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Detail from the Ramsey Psalter

Ramsey Abbey School is on the site of what was one of the most important Benedictine Abbeys of the Middle Ages.   The school is planning to build a much needed extension, but before the building can start, an archaeological dig must take place to discover what lies beneath the soil.   Staff and pupils at the school have put together the following information to explain to the local community, and to the wider world, what we know already about the Abbey, and how the archaeological dig is helping us to understand more about its history.  We will add more information as the dig progresses, so please visit us again!

Foundation of the Abbey

  

The founding of the Abbey

 

 

 

 

Ramsey Psalter

Archaeological dig

 The archaeological dig

History of the Abbey

 The rise and fall of the Abbey

974-1539

The Ramsey Psalter

 

 

Bibliography

 Where to find out more

 

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Back to the future!!

 Thanks to all those who helped compile these pages:  Andrew Bainbridge for his illuminated lettering,  Janet Walker, Allan Fisher, Byron Farrow, Julie McCrory

Thanks also to:
Elizabeth Stazicker, Head of Heritage & County Archivist, Cambridgeshire County Council, for her valuable help and advice
Stephen Macaulay, Project Officer, and his colleagues for giving so freely of their time to explain their work to school staff and students
Dr Susan Edgington for permission to use her translation of Ramsey Abbey's Book of Benefactors
The Lord de Ramsey for permission to publish the 1733 plan of the Ramsey Abbey estate