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Kidwelly Priory

Coordinates: 51°44′12″N 4°18′23″W / 51.7368°N 4.3065°W / 51.7368; -4.3065
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Kidwelly Priory was a Benedictine abbey in Kidwelly, Wales (in Welsh, Cydweli).

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 Christian 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][7] with much of the surviving fabric dates to the fourteenth century, c. 1320.[8]

Priors of Kidwelly

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Priors of Kidwelly Medieval[9]

  • 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

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  1. ^ D. Daven Jones, A History of Kidwelly (Carmarthen, 1908), pp. 612.
  2. ^ Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. 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. ^ "St Mary's Church (Priory Church)". Coflein Database Record. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  7. ^ Kidwelly, St Mary's Church BY David Ross.
  8. ^ Remnants of Kidwelly Priory.
  9. ^ Kidwelly Priory by GLANMOR WILLIAMS.

51°44′12″N 4°18′23″W / 51.7368°N 4.3065°W / 51.7368; -4.3065