Kidwelly Priory

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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]

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Priors of Kidwelly Medieval [9]

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References

  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.

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