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Source caption: "The Nunnery. Now a private residence, a Cluniac Nunnery was founded on this site in 1150 by Peter de Arthington."
Scene Description: Source caption: "The Nunnery. Now a private residence, a Cluniac Nunnery was founded on this site in 1150 by Peter de Arthington."

INFORMATION

FontID: 22363ART
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Priory Church [disappeared]
Church Location: address and coordinates are for The Nunnery, said to have been built on the site of the old priory: Harewood Rd, Arthington, Otley LS21 1PR, UK
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located between the A559 (S) and the Wharfe river (N), 6-7 km E of Otley, 12-14 km N of Leeds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Skyrack
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Late Norman
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Arthington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE2744/arthington/] [accessed 26 September 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for the Cluniac Nunnery at Arthington in the Victoria County History (York, vol. 3, 1974) notes: "The priory of Arthington, the only house of Cluniac nuns in the county, [...] was founded by Peter de Arthington, either at the end of the reign of Stephen, or at the beginning of that of Henry II [ca. 1150?] The house was surrendered by Elizabeth Hall, the prioress, and the convent on 26 November 1540." [NB: both St Peter's and St May and St Abanoub churches in Arthington are modern]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.9017, -1.562
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 54′ 6.12″ N, 1° 33′ 43.2″ W
UTM: 30U 594479 5973543