The Priory Church of St. Mary the Virgin, in Tutbury, Staffordshire, England
Tutbury Priory seems to have been founded in 1080 – or, at least, very shortly afterwards - as a Benedictine house, dependent on the Abbey of St. Pierre-sur-Dives in Normandy. For a long time this arrangement worked reasonably well, but as time went on, and especially after the start of the Hundred Years War, the ‘alien’ priories, who, like Tutbury, had their mother house in France, came under a great deal of pressure. Nevertheless, unlike many other alien priories, Tutbury maintained close links with its mother house into the 15th c., and as late as 1429 a monk of was appointed prior, despite the sequestration of the alien priories in 1414. Tutbury Priory was surrendered on 14th September 1538 by Prior Meverell and eight other monks. The nave, the bulk of which dates from the third quarter of the 12th c., was retained as the parish church; typically, everything east of the pulpitum (separating the lay and monastic parts of the church), together with the domestic buildings, have been completely destroyed.
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Location: Tutbury, Staffordshire, England
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