St Mary's Abbey, Halesowen, West Midlands
An engraving by J Greig showing the remains of Halesowen Abbey in 1807. It is an abbey of Premonstratensian Canons founded in 1215 and a convent founded in 1218. In 1536, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII, the abbey and its possessions passed to the crown, and two years later the monastic buildings were partly demolished. The site of the abbey was granted by Henry VIII to Sir John Dudley who passed the site to his servant George Tuckey.
