1 St.Mary’s Priory was founded in 1832 for nuns of the Order of St. Benedict, with a girl’s school attached. The buildings, which include a church with a bell-tower, are ...
St Mary's Priory which was founded in the Imperial period for an order of Bendictine nuns. The priory is situated to the west of Princethorpe Great Wood.
1 Bloxam records Roman (PRN 3106) and Anglo Saxon finds from Princethorpe. The Anglo Saxon finds include a large bronze brooch and an iron chisel.
3 A number of these finds ...
Various finds from this area, including brooches and pottery, suggest that this might be the site of an Anglo Saxon cemetery dating to the Migration or Early Medieval periods. The site lies 500m south of Princethorpe.
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It is not clear why the Benedictine nuns chose Princethorpe in Warwickshire. The site certainly had (and still has) attractive features: it was raised up, surrounded by ...
Princethorpe College, which is located in a former Benedictine priory, owes its existence to the French Revolution. However, its story really begins in the 17th century.
On 13th May 1630 Marie Granger ...