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 Priory farmhouse, listed Grade II, is a large farmhouse, basically early 19th century alterations to older buildings. At the time of the construction of St. Mary’s Priory, the building ...
Priory Farmhouse. During the Imperial period the building was used as an inn and a toll house, where travellers would pay a toll to use the toll road. It is situated 400m south east of Princethorpe College.
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.
1 A wood of 40ha. Much of the wood is demarcated by a woodbank, in places very sinuous, of Medieval type, with later additions to the south-west, north and north-west ...
Princethorpe Great Wood, a Medieval (possibly earlier) managed woodland. The woodland comprises: woodbanks; ridge and furrow cultivation; and probable evidence of ancient management.