Wendling Abbey

Wendling Abbey was monastic house in Norfolk, England. The Abbey once stood on marshy ground near a small rivulet (small stream) which runs to the south. The abbey and outbuildings covered approximately two acres of ground, it stood on ten acres of land and was founded by one of Henry III judges called William de Wendling in the year 1265. WILLIAM DE WENDLING Sir William de Wendling called in some records clerk son of William, and in others, son of John de Wendling, he seems to have been the same William de Wendling who was one of the Kings judges for justices (as appear from a plea pleading or an arrise at Thetford, in the year 1270 on Wednesday after the feast of Saint Mathew). Gilbert de Preston, William de Wendling and Henry de Ryveshale, associates to the said Gilbert for canons of the premonstratenein order or that of St Robert and dedicated to St Mary the virgin. One William de Wendling clerk, was master of the hospital of St Cross near Winchester in the 23rd of Edward I (1295 AD) and one William de Wendling farmed the manor of Brandon Ferry in Suffolk which belonged to Hugh Bishop of Ely in the 43rd of Henry III (1259 AD) Sir William de Wendling son of William de Wendling gave them the church of St Clement of Conisford, in Norwich with several houses near to it, and a key or stathe which Simon Abbot of Langley in Norfolk at the request of Sir Jeffrey de Lodnes and for 3s annual rent, confirmed to the said Sir William who in 1267 settled in with ten acres of land in Wendling (on which the abbey was built) with 3s rent in Baldeswell by a fine levied between himself and Nicholas, Abbot there, Gilbert de Fransham capital lord of the fee, being present in the court and consenting. It does not appear that Sir William had any lordship here in Wendling. Gilbert de Fransham, manor of Fransham Magna extended into this town and gave his consent as lord of part of the land belonging to his fee. The principal lord here was Robert de Stotevile, son of William de…