Kidwelly Priory

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Kidwelly Priory was a Benedictine abbey in Kidwelly, Wales.

Roger, bishop of Salisbury (d.1139), a Norman invader founded the priory of Kidwelly,[1] but it seems to have been a place of Celtic veneration of Saint Cadog for some centuries prior to that.[2][3][4]

It was a daughter abbey of Sherborne Abbey,[5] and although well documented in the historical record it appears to have remained small for its extent. It was dissolved 1539, by Henry VIII.

Today the abbey remains a parish church, St Mary's[6] with much of the surviving fabric dates to the fourteenth century, c. 1320.[7]

Priors of Kidweli

Priors of Kidwelly Medieval[8]

  • 1240 Abraham
  • 1268 Gervase
  • 1284 Ralph de Bemenster
  • 1301 Galfridus de Coker
  • 1346 Robert Dunster
  • 1361 John Flode
  • 1399 Philip Morevyle
  • 1404 John de Kidwelly
  • 1428 Robert Fyfhede
  • 1438 John Cauntville
  • 1482 John Sherborne
  • 1487 John Henstrige
  • 1520 John Whitchurche
  • 1534 John Godmyston
  • 1539 John Painter

References

  1. D. Daven Jones, A History of Kidwelly (Carmarthen, 1908), pp. 612.
  2. Royal Commission of Ancient Monuments. Carmarthenshire Inventory (HMSO, 1917), p.55.
  3. F. G. Cowley, The Monastic Order in South Wales, 1066-1349 (Cardiff, 1977), chap. II.
  4. Kegidock: Killey — A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (pp.445-456).
  5. Kidwelly (Priory).
  6. Kidwelly, St Mary's Church BY David Ross.
  7. Remnants of Kidwelly Priory.
  8. Kidwelly Priory by GLANMOR WILLIAMS.

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