About Miles Salley
Lived 1401 – 1516 (aged 114–115). Miles Salley was a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
Miles Salley (died 1516) was a late 15th-century Abbot of Eynsham Abbey and Abingdon Abbey and an early 16th-century Bishop of Llandaff. Salley was Abbot of Eynsham in Oxfordshire in the 1490s. He was appointed Bishop of Llandaff, where he is remembered for his building work at the Bishop's Palace in Mathern in Monmouthshire.
He also rebuilt the chancel and south aisle of The Gaunt's Chapel, Bristol, and donated the reredos. In his will, he left items and money to a number of organisations including Llandaff Cathedral, Mathern church, Eynsham Abbey and St Mark's hospital.
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British bishop
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Miles Salley was born in 1401.
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Miles Salley died in 1516.
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Miles Salley was a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
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