Orford nr. Stanton-le-Vale / Irford / Erforde
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Orford Priory (site of) Earthworks by the footpath behind Priory Farm."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2013 by Chris [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3496479] [accessed 13 May 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22150ORF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Priory Church [disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: [NB: address and coordinates are for the site of the disappeared priory: Stainton Le Vale, Market Rasen, UK]
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: The site of the disappeared priory is located less than 1 km E of Stanton-le-Vale, WNW of Binbrook, SW of Grimsby
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Lincoln]
Historical Region: Hundred of Walshcroft
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Romanesque
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There is an entry for this Orford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF2094/orford/] [accessed 13 May 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this house of Premonstratensian nuns in the Victoria County History (Lincoln, vol. 2, 1906) notes: "The priory of Orford or Irford, in Staintonle-Vale, was probably built some time during the reign of Henry II by Ralf d'Albini, in honour of Blessed Mary. [...] A nun of Orford was excommunicated in 1491 by Bishop Redman for breach of her vow of chastity, her partner in crime being a canon of Newhouse. [...] The house was not dissolved, as it might have been, under the first Act of Suppression [...] the surrender was finally made on 8 July, 1539.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.432268, -0.217937
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 25′ 56.17″ N, 0° 13′ 4.57″ W
UTM: 30U 684814 5923963
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-05-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.