Christchurch Priory is a parish and former priory church, located at grid reference SZ160925 in Christchurch in the English coun
Christchurch Priory is a parish and former priory church, located at grid reference SZ160925 in Christchurch in the English county of Dorset (formerly in Hampshire). The story of Christchurch Priory goes back to at least the middle of the 11th century, as Domesday says there was a priory of 24 secular canons here in the reign of Edward the Confessor. In 1094 a chief minister of William II, Ranulf Flambard, then Dean of Twynham, began the building of a church on the site of the present priory. Although in 1099 he was appointed Bishop of Durham, work continued under his successors, and by about 1150 there was a basic Norman church comprising of a nave, a central tower and a quire extending eastwards from the crossing. It was during this period that the legend of the miraculous beam originated, which was to change the name of the town from Twynham to the present day Christchurch.
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