Belvoir Priory

INFORMATION

FontID: 22094BEL
Church/Chapel: Benedictione Priory Church [disappeared]
Church Location: Belvoir, Grantham, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A52, in the original grounds of Belvoir Castle, to the NE of the castle, 9-10 km WSW of Grantham
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Lincoln]
Historical Region: formerly Lincolnshire
Century and Period: 11th century, Norman
No individual entry found for Belvoir in the Domesday survey. The entry for this priory in the Victoria County History (Lincoln, vol, 2, 1906) notes that it was started in 1076; it later received the churches at Redmile and Woolsthorpe as gifts; it was dissolved ca. 1539. [NB: we have no information on the font of its medieval church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.898541, -0.781701
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 53′ 54.75″ N, 0° 46′ 54.13″ W
UTM: 30U 649209 5863288