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THE CHAPEL OF ST. BLASE (BLAYS, BLASIUS) AT SHENKLYN
William I
1066 - 1087
1086
First mention of Shanklin
Manor in the Domesday
survey
There is likely to have been a
place of worship there.
William II
1087 - 1100
Henry I
1100 - 1135
Stephen
1135 - 1154
1135 - 1154
First chapel built in the Manor by the Lisle family. It was dedicated to
St. John the Baptist and placed in the parish of Brading.
Henry II
1154 - 1189
1170
Establishment and endowment
of a chapel owing fealty to
Brading as the mother church.
Evidence shows that the church
of St. Blasius dates from the
twelfth century.
Richard I
1189 - 1199
John
1199 - 1216
Henry III
1216 - 1272
NORMANS: 1066 - 1154
PLANTAGENETS: 1154 - 1377
Edward I
1273 - 1307
Edward II
1307 - 1327
Edward III
1327 - 1377
1367
Records show that St. Blaise was the saint of the
Lisle family sanctuary within the church.
1367 was the date of the presentation of the
"Chapel of St. Blays of Shanklyng Capella Sancti
Johannes Baptisti de Shynling.".
This period saw the Crusades, the signing of Magna Carta, and the rebuilding of Westminster Abbey.
Richard II
1377 - 1399
Henry IV
1399 - 1413
Henry V
1413 - 1422
Henry VI
1422 - 1471
Edward IV
1461 - 1483
Edward V
1483
Richard III
1483 - 1486
Henry VII
1485 - 1509
Once more there is very little recorded of
St. Blasius at this time but the country was
occupied with the Wars of the Roses,
continuing war in France.
Henry V's victory at Agincourt in 1415, the
coming of Joan of Arc.
William Caxton established a printing press at
Westminster.
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