Wallingford Priory was a

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priory dedicated to the Holy Trinity in Wallingford in the

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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

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priory was established on land granted to St Albans Abbey in 1097 by

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, 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

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s at St Albans. William Binham, prior in the late 14th century was a theologist who challenged the views of

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, his former friend and colleague at

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over the

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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
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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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