Saint Guthlac Saint Guthlac of Crowland ( ang, Gūðlāc; la, Guthlacus; 674 – 3 April 714 CE) was a Christian hermit and saint from Lincolnshire in England. He is particularly venerated in the Fens of eastern England. Life Guthlac was the son of Penwal ...

's Priory (or the Benedictine Priory of Saints Peter, Paul and Guthlac) was a

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priory in

Hereford Hereford () is a cathedral city, civil parish and the county town of Herefordshire, England. It lies on the River Wye, approximately east of the border with Wales, south-west of Worcester and north-west of Gloucester. With a populatio ...

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. It was originally founded in the early 12th century near the Church of St. Guthlac in town. After the church was ruined circa 1143, during

the Anarchy The Anarchy was a civil war in England and Normandy between 1138 and 1153, which resulted in a widespread breakdown in law and order. The conflict was a war of succession precipitated by the accidental death of William Adelin, the only legi ...

, it relocated to a site between the present day Bath Street and Commercial Road at . It was disestablished in 1538 as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the English Reformation, and purchased by John Prise.

Priors

* Thomas Conyngesby, fl. 1485Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; in 1485; CP 40/891, seen : http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT3/R3/CP40no891/aCP40no891fronts/IMG_0450.htm

References

Monasteries in Herefordshire Buildings and structures in Hereford Benedictine monasteries in England 1538 disestablishments in England Religious organizations established in the 12th century Monasteries dissolved under the English Reformation {{UK-Christian-monastery-stub