Christian Sites in Northern England

Lanercost Priory

Lanercost Priory played an important part in the border wars of the medieval times.

Captured and sacked several times by the Scots it was used by Edward I as his headquarters at the end of his reign in 1306 and England was governed from here during his ruinous stay.

The Priory is also known for the Lanercost Chronicle of the Scottish Wars of Independence which was composed there. By the end of the medieval period its prosperity was ruined by constant attack and it was finally dissolved in 1538, although part of the church was retained as a parish church.

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Cartmel Priory

Cartmel Priory was founded by William Marshall in 1190 after he had been offered the fief of Kendal and its heiress.

He had returned from a pilgrimage to the holy land a few years before and endowed the priory with the surrounding lands and also gave an altar in the church to the local villagers.

This saved the Priory after the dissolution when it became the Parish Church. It was damaged by some roundhead fanatique soldiers during the civil war but the Church and Village are in good condition and beautiful places to visit.

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St Bees Priory

St Bee’s Priory is supposed to date back to the legendary St. Bega, an Irish Princess who ran away from an unwelcome marriage to become a reclusive nun. A 10th Century cross is evidence that the site is ancient.

The present church dates back to its foundation as a Benedictine monastery in Norman times when it grew to be the most important foundation in the West of the County, having extensive lands until the dissolution.

In the 1970s an excavation revealed the intact body of a medieval knight who died on crusade and whose body was still miraculously intact after 600 years.

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