Kidwelly Priory
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
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
- D. Daven Jones, A History of Kidwelly (Carmarthen, 1908), pp. 612.
- Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. Carmarthenshire Inventory (HMSO, 1917), p.55.
- F. G. Cowley, The Monastic Order in South Wales, 1066-1349 (Cardiff, 1977), chap. II.
- Kegidock: Killey — A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (pp.445-456).
- Kidwelly (Priory).
- "St Mary's Church (Priory Church)". Coflein Database Record. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
- Kidwelly, St Mary's Church BY David Ross.
- Remnants of Kidwelly Priory.
- Kidwelly Priory by GLANMOR WILLIAMS.
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