Pontefract No. 3 / Pomfret
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Information Board for St John's Priory"
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Scene Description: Source caption: "The Site of the Former St John's Priory. This site, now with little to show other than humps and hillocks in the terrain, was once the site of a very large and important Priory."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2013 by Bill Henderson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3533942] [accessed 26 September 2019]
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FontID: 22362PON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Cluniac Priory Church of St. Mary and St. John the Evangelist
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. John the Evangelist
Church Location: approximate address and coordinates for the site of the disappeared priory: Monkhill Ln, Pontefract WF8 2JN, UK
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: The site of the disappeared priory is tentatively located just N of Monk Hill, off (N) the A645
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of York]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
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No individual entry for Potefract found in the Domesday survey. The entry for the Cluniac priory here in the Victoria County History (York, vol. 3, 1974) notes: "The priory of St. John of Pontefract was founded in 1090 [...] by Robert de Lacy. The house was dedicated to the honour of St. John [...] the Evangelist, and subjected to the Cluniac monks of La Charité-sur-Loire"; a 1279 visitation to this priory by the Abbot of Cluny "found that the monks were leading good lives, that the daily offices were duly performed, the buildings in a good state of repair, the church well appointed, and the food sufficient till the next harvest. [...] during the reign of Edward II [...] Thomas the Earl of Lancaster was executed by the king's order. His body was interred in 1322 in the priory church near the high altar. [...] The date of the surrender is 23 November 1539".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.700048, -1.296923
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 42′ 0.17″ N, 1° 17′ 48.92″ W
UTM: 30U 612432 5951497
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-09-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.