Place Institution Christianity
Reading Abbey
Ruined abbey in the English town of Reading, founded in 1121 by King Henry I
- Dated 12th century CE – 1538 CE
A place,
and the traditions
recorded there.
Sites, not believers
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Figures
Associated figures
Gods and people named with this place — as its founders, or in their own records.
What this means
Founders are named by this place's own record, and a founding is an attribution, often contested. The rest are read from the other end, computed from their records rather than this one. Being named with a place is not being documented there in any given year.
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Henry I of EnglandNamed as founder King of England from 1100 to 1135 (1068–1135)
Site history & evidence
What is documented here
Each kind of evidence on its own row, because they do not add up.
| Evidence | On record | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Site date | Dated 12th century CE – 1538 CE On the timeline | A date for the site as recorded — not the start of worship, and not a floor on the tradition here. |
| Location | Recorded to the site On the atlas | A coordinate for the place. It locates the site; it does not draw its extent. |
| Dated activity | None recorded | A pin is a place, not an event. What happened at Reading Abbey, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity. |
Nearby
Places nearby
The nearest this collection holds, measured between recorded coordinates.
What this means
Computed from coordinates, not stated by any source. Nearness is geometry, not a connection: two sites a kilometre apart may never have shared a worshipper, a tradition or a century. Where either coordinate is recorded only to a district, the distance is rounded and says “about”.
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25 km awaySt George's Chapel, Windsor
place of worship at Windsor Castle in England, United Kingdom -
32 km awayWaverley Abbey
Cistercian abbey in Surrey, England, UK -
32 km awayAbingdon Abbey
Grade I listed abbey in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom -
33 km awayShah Jahan Mosque
mosque in Woking, Surrey, England, UK -
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33 km awayChertsey Abbey
Benedictine monastery -
38 km awayChrist Church Cathedral, Oxford
cathedral of the diocese of Oxford, England -
46 km awayGreat Pagoda
pagoda in Kew Gardens, London, England, UK -
48 km awayAmaravati Buddhist Monastery
Theravada Buddhist monastery in England
Connections
How Reading Abbey connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Place 2
What this means
Where something is, or is documented. A location is not by itself evidence of activity.
Does not imply that anything is documented to have happened there
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
5 statements on this record
- 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 3 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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