Priory Farm |
Hob Uid: 304929 | |
Location : Staffordshire Lichfield Mavesyn Ridware
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Grid Ref : SK0907020920 |
Summary : Site of a Benedictine priory cell of St Egidius, (Giles), founded after 1129. After 1158-65 it was a nunnery only. It appears to have been merged with Brewood Black Ladies until circa 1315. Alleged chapel demolished 1795. No surface remains. |
More information : (SK 09132085) Priory Farm, on site of (NAT) St Giles's Priory (NR). (1) Blithbury:- Priory Cell of Benedictine Monks found 1129; later became a priory for nuns only. Suppressed 1525-8, certainly extinct in 1535. (2) The present farm-buildings are modern; no other evidence of the priory was seen. (3) No change to previous information. (4) A religious house was established on the south bank of the Blithe at Blithbury between 1129 and 1148, originally for hermits and afterwards transformed into a nunnery. There is evidence that soon after its foundation it became closely associated with the nuns at Brewood (SJ 80 NW 2) and that it was eventually absorbed by them. No trace of the nunnery can be found in the records after 1315 and it appears to have been merged with Brewood during the 14th century. The largest item in the revenues of Brewood in the 1530s was income from the land at Blithbury. (5)
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