The old historical place of Britain 666-1539 😲

{History}: This exhibition explores the history of Barking Abbey, which was founded in 666AD by a priest named Erkenwald for his sister Ethelburga.

Barking Abbey was a ‘double house’, where monks and nuns lived in separate but identical buildings. The abbey buildings were constructed of wood with walls of wattle and daub and foundations of reused Roman tiles. The founders of the abbey and their relatives lived in the Patron House. Archaeology has revealed fragments of extremely rare coloured glass, silver coins and bone combs, which show how affluent the occupants were.

Erkenwald who became the Bishop of London, died while on a visit to Barking Abbey in 693. He was reburied at St. Paul’s Cathedral. Soon after he was declared a saint and his shrine became an object of pilgrimage.

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