Stamford No. 7

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 November 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3734131] [accessed 17 April 2019]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "listed remains of the Benedictine Priory of St.Leonard, reputedly founded in 1082 on the site of an earlier monastery founded by St.Wilfrid in 658, but destroyed by invading Danes. The surviving building is the early 12th century church with 5 bays of a 6 bay north arcade and late 12th century west front."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 November 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3734118] [accessed 17 April 2019]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 November 2006 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/285830] [accessed 17 April 2019]

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view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Norman colonettes. Late 12th century architectural detail on St.Leonard's Priory".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/622703] [accessed 17 April 2019]

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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Detail of the late 12th century west front of St.Leonard's Priory, clustered shafts and characteristic Norman moulding in the arches".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/622701] [accessed 17 April 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22095STA

Church/Chapel: Priory Church of St. Leonard [in ruins]

Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard

Church Location: Priory Rd, Stamford PE9 2EU, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: The ruins of the old priory are located off (S) the A6121 [aka Uffington Rd), 1 km ENE of Stamford town centre

Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Lincoln]

Date: ca. 1082?

Century and Period: 11th century (late?), Norman

Church Notes: Benedictione priory re-founded ca. 1082 on the site of a ca. 658 original monastery later destroyed by the Danish raids; dissolved in 1538; church re-built 1844

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The entry for this priory in the Victoria County History (Lincoln, vol. 2, 1906) writes of the claimed foundation of an early (658) monastery here but adds, "The only thing that can be said with certainty is that it was from a very short time after the Conquest a cell of Durham." The ruins are listed in Historic England [Legacy System number: 22614]: "Part of the precinct of St Leonard's Priory, Stamford, a cell of the cathedral monastery of Durham, including the upstanding remains of the nave of the priory church, rebuilt in the C19, and the buried remains of the north aisle, transepts, chancel and claustral buildings. The 1967 excavations recovered the plan of the demolished north transept and the east extent of the sanctuary, establishing a c1130 construction date for the sanctuary, transept and east two bays of the nave, the remaining bays added in the later C12"; no font mentioned in this entry.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.6541, -0.4656

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 39′ 14.76″ N, 0° 27′ 56.16″ W

UTM: 30U 671426 5836808

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-04-17 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.