Anchorholds

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Anchorholds
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An English phenomenon

• Rotha Mary Clay (1914) identified over 300 in
  England between 1200 and the Dissolution
• Both males and females enclosed
• Strictly regulated by church http//www.suite101.
  com/external_link.cfm?elinkhttp//www.newadvent.o
  rg/cathen/01462b.htm

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Anchoresses and Anchorholds
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Not many survivals
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St Mary Magdalen Eastham
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St Marys Willingham
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Interior details
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Polesworth
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Julians church
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St Julians before the Blitz
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After the blitz