St. Martin's Priory, Richmond
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St. Martin's Priory, Richmond was a medieval monastic house in
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. It was a Benedictine house, founded about 1100, originally for 9 or 10 monks, dependent on St Mary's Abbey, York. As one of the lesser monastic houses, it was dissolved in 1539.


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