Monk Bretton Priory

United Kingdom / England / Cudworth /

priory, interesting place, Grade I Listed (UK), scheduled ancient monument, historic ruins, English Heritage

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Ruin of 12th Century monastery in the care of English Heritage. Open to the public.
Monk Bretton was a Cluniac establishment, founded from Pontefract.
Dissolved in 1538, Monk Bretton Priory was a relatively small foundation of about a dozen monks.
Unlike many monastic ruins -- such as Mount Grace Priory, Reivaulx Abbey and Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire, and Roche Abbey near Maltby -- Monk Bretton has lost its isolated location and has been closely surrounded by urban development (as has Kirkstall Abbey in Leeds).

See: www.monkbrettonpriory.org.uk/
See: www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/ConProperty.372

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk_Bretton_Priory

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Coordinates: 53°33'13"N 1°26'17"W

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