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    Monks Kirby Priory was a Benedictine priory established in 1077 in Monks Kirby, Warwickshire, England. The priory was suppressed in 1415 when its estates...
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    the revenues of Monks Kirby Priory provided most of their income but only two priests, and no monks, were maintained at Monks Kirby. The church was again...
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    Priory Arbury Priory Atherstone Austin Friars Bretford Priory Cawston Grange Coombe Abbey Kenilworth Abbey Maxstoke Priory Merevale Abbey Monks Kirby...
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    of the Benedictine Monks of Perpetual Adoration. Mark Daniel Kirby (b. 1952) is the founder and was the first superior of the priory until his resignation...
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    village of Monks Kirby and land in neighbouring villages, the lands were the ancient estate that had belonged to the Pre-Reformation Monks Kirby Priory. He then...
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    to the Cistercian monks by Richard de Camville, of Didleton Castle. They accepted the gift, and sent out an advance party of monks, who, living in temporary...
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    number of monks living at Boxgrove was increased from the original three to six. Robert had died by 1165. By 1187 there were 15 monks. A 19th monk was added...
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  • town, of any size, had at least one abbey, priory, convent or friary in it. (Often many small houses of monks, nuns, canons or friars.) Dissolution of the...
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    recalcitrant monks to Tynemouth as punishment. One such monk wrote a letter in the mid 14th century giving the first known written description of the priory: Our...
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    changed his intentions and decided to turn the college into a priory for Augustinian monks. The licence for this was obtained on 24 September 1336 but the...
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    Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln offered the site of Haverholme Priory to the Cistercian monks of Fountains Abbey. After two years of construction, the order...
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  • by Evesham Abbey, from whence it had a prior or warden who was an Evesham monk. In 1536 its ownership was transferred to Thomas Cromwell. Little now remains...
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  • monastic granges (particularly those with resident monks), and also camerae of the military orders of monks (Knights Templars and Knights Hospitaller). The...
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    original on 6 August 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2017. 'Houses of Benedictine monks: Priory of Alvecote', in A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 2, ed. William...
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    be found on the National Pipe Organ Register. List of English abbeys, priories and friaries serving as parish churches Visit North Warwickshire website...
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  • shrine of St Neot in 1078-9. In 1081 he sent eighteen monks from Bec to replace the Saxon monks, and had it re-founded by Richard Fitz Gilbert and his...
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  • priory here a prior and one monk constituted its community and the church was re-dedicated to St Peter in Chains. In 1398 Richard II gave the priory to...
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  • Arbury Priory was an Augustinian priory in the parish of Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England. The priory was founded early in the reign of Henry II...
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  • Warmington Priory was a Benedictine priory or more probably a cell in Warmington, Warwickshire, England. It was apparently founded by the monks of Préaux...
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    religious houses (abbeys, priories and friaries) were founded in England and Wales during the medieval period, accommodating monks, friars or nuns who had...
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    of Gilsland Lucy Mercia Tailebois, wife of Ivo Taillebois Monks Kirby Priory, in Monks Kirby, Warwickshire, also as an English Benedictine house subsidiary...
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    The priory was built for thirty monks on land belonging to Westminster Abbey. A charter from Henry I in 1128 AD refers to Great Malvern Priory as 'the...
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    Fields. Some of its ruins are above ground and some are below ground. A priory for Augustinian canons was built on this site in about 1124 by Geoffrey...
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    Tresco Priory is a former monastic settlement on Tresco, Isles of Scilly founded in 946 AD. It was re-founded as the Priory of St Nicholas by monks from...
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    Grace Dieu Priory Heather Preceptory Hinckley Priory Kirby Bellars Priory Langley Priory Launde Priory LEICESTER (see below) Mount St Bernard Abbey Rothley...
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    Wolston Priory was a Benedictine priory near Wolston in Warwickshire, England. The earthwork remains of the priory are a Scheduled Ancient Monument. A...
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    Nuneaton Priory was a medieval Benedictine monastic house in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. It was founded as a daughter house of the Order of Fontevraud...
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    Monasteries by Henry VIII. Until then, Durham Priory was home to between 50 and 100 Benedictine monks. Durham was the largest and richest of the monasteries...
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    perform Mass. One of these monks was styled as prior, despite the small number of monks in the priory. In 1539, the priory was dissolved along with Selby...
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    Atherstone Priory was a priory in Atherstone, Warwickshire, England. The first monastic site in Atherstone was an Augustinian friary founded in the centre...
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