Hannah cum Hagnaby is a civil parish in the

East Lindsey East Lindsey is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England. The population of the district council was 136,401 at the 2011 census. The council is based in Manby. Other major settlements in the district include Alford, Wragby, Spilsby ...

district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately north-east from Alford, and south-east from Louth The parish contains two small hamlets, Hannah and Hagnaby. Hannah was used in the Bronze Age as there is evidence of a Round Barrow. In antiquity Hannah was known as Hannay. The church, in Hannah, is dedicated to

Saint Andrew Andrew the Apostle ( grc-koi, Ἀνδρέᾱς, Andréās ; la, Andrēās ; , syc, ܐܰܢܕ݁ܪܶܐܘܳܣ, ʾAnd’reʾwās), also called Saint Andrew, was an apostle of Jesus according to the New Testament. He is the brother of Simon Peter ...

and is a Grade I listed building, built of greenstone about 1758, with early 19th, and some 20th-century, alterations. Hagnaby Priory, later Hagnaby Abbey, was in Hagnaby. '' Pevsner'' states that a

Premonstratensian The Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré (), also known as the Premonstratensians, the Norbertines and, in Britain and Ireland, as the White Canons (from the colour of their habit), is a religious order of canons regular of the Catholic Church ...

priory, founded in 1175, stood to the north of the village. Fragments of the priory, including octagonal shafts and window tracery, exist at Hagnaby Abbey Farm to the west. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; ''The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'' p. 266; Penguin (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram in 1989, Yale University Press. English Heritage has noted the existence of the suppressed priory through evidence of aerial photographs and building debris, and grassed foundations of a later formal garden and post-medieval house.

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* {{authority control Civil parishes in Lincolnshire Villages in Lincolnshire East Lindsey District