Priory Church of Monks Kirby Priory

Description of this historic site

The site of the church of Monks Kirby Priory. The church was built during the Medieval period. It is located on the west side of Monks Kirby.

Notes about this historic site

1 In 1077 a cell or priory of Benedictine monks under obedience to the Abbey of St Nicholas at Angiers was established at ‘Kirkbury’. The priory (PRN 4242) was given the church at Kirkbury which had been ruinous and had been rebuilt. In 1396 the priory was granted to the Carthusians, in 1399 it was restored to its original order, but in the reign of Henry V (1413-22) it was returned to the Carthusians of the Isle of Axholm.
2 VCH description.

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