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SPALDING PRIORY

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Benedictine cell founded in 1052 as a dependency of the Benedictine Abbey of Crowland. After 1071 one monk only remained, and the house was refounded in 1074 as a cell of St. Nicholas's Abbey, Angers. The monks secured their independence from Angers in 1397, and in 1540 the house was surrendered. The conventual church was apparently on the West side of the present Bridge Street a little to the North of High Bridge.
Dependencies: Until 1220, Alkborough Priory was a dependency of Spalding.

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[TF 24772252] Benedictine Priory [A.T.] (Site of). (1)

Founded in 1052 as a dependency of the Benedictine Abbey of Crowland. After 1071 one monk only remained, and the house was refounded in 1074 as a cell of St. Nicholas's Abbey, Angers. The monks secured their independence from Angers in 1397, and in 1540 the house was surrendered.

See Map Diagram. (2)

For comments on extant remains see map diagram and G.Ps AO/65/31/7,8. (3)

TF 248225. The remains of at least six disarticulated Human skeletons found during building work in Bridge Street. The presumed site of the Priory burial ground. (4)

Additional source. (5)

This link contains a digital copy of a 17th century map of the priory. See link in the list of sources. (6)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 25" 1889

( 2) by David Knowles and R Neville Hadcock 1953 Medieval religious houses : England and Wales

Page(s)77

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 FRH 21-JUN-65

( 4) East Midlands Committee of Field Archaeologists East Midland Archaeological bulletin

10, 1974 Page(s)38

(5) by David Knowles and R Neville Hadcock 1971 Medieval religious houses in England and Wales

Page(s)77, 483

(6) World Wide Web page

Wikimedia Commons. (2009). Spalding Abbey: University of Toronto Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wenceslas_Hollar_-_Spalding_abbey_%28State_2%29.jpg [accessed 22-FEB-2011]

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