Wallingford Priory was a
Benedictine
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priory dedicated to the
Holy Trinity in
Wallingford in the
English
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county of
Berkshire (now
Oxfordshire).
Nothing remains of Holy Trinity Priory, which is believed to have stood on the site of the Bullcroft recreation ground off the High Street. This
Benedictine
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priory was established on land granted to
St Albans Abbey in 1097 by
Henry I Henry I may refer to:
876–1366
* Henry I the Fowler, King of Germany (876–936)
* Henry I, Duke of Bavaria (died 955)
* Henry I of Austria, Margrave of Austria (died 1018)
* Henry I of France (1008–1060)
* Henry I the Long, Margrave of the ...
, and
Geoffrey the Chamberlain gave the priory to St Albans. Paul, 14th Abbot of St Albans sent some of his monks to establish a cell there.
John of Wallingford,
Richard of Wallingford
Richard of Wallingford (1292–1336) was an English mathematician, astronomer, horologist, and cleric who made major contributions to astronomy and horology while serving as abbot of St Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire.
Biography
Richard was bor ...
,
William de Kirkeby and
William of Wallingford
William of Wallingford (died 20 June 1492) was the 47th abbot of St Albans Abbey.
He was a Benedictine monk at Holy Trinity Priory, Wallingford, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), England and like John of Wallingford and Richard of Wallingford, move ...
, who all began at the Priory, later became
abbot
Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the male head of a monastery in various Western religious traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not the head of a monastery. The ...
s at St Albans. William Binham, prior in the late 14th century was a theologist who challenged the views of
John Wycliff
John Wycliffe (; also spelled Wyclif, Wickliffe, and other variants; 1328 – 31 December 1384) was an English scholastic philosopher, theologian, biblical translator, reformer, Catholic priest, and a seminary professor at the University of ...
, his former friend and colleague at
Oxford
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over the
papacy
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. The priory was dissolved in 1525 by
Cardinal Wolsey, partly in order to fund the building of
Cardinal College, Oxford. Work at 56 High Street, in 1983, exposed burials in chalk cists which are believed to be part of the cemetery.
External links
Wallingford History Gateway*
Houses of Benedictine monks: The priory of Wallingford', A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 2 (1907), pp. 77-9.
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Monasteries in Berkshire
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Benedictine monasteries in England
1097 establishments in England
1525 disestablishments in England
Christian monasteries established in the 11th century
Wallingford, Oxfordshire