Sandwell Priory
Sandwell Priory was a small medieval Benedictine monastery, near West Bromwich, then part of Staffordshire, England. It was founded in the late 12th century by a local landowner and was only modestly endowed. It had a fairly turbulent history and suffered considerably from mismanagement. It was dissolved in 1525 at the behest of Cardinal Wolsey – more than a decade before the main Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII
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Sandwell Priory
Sandwell Priory was a small medieval Benedictine monastery, near West Bromwich, then part of Staffordshire, England. It was founded in the late 12th century by a local landowner and was only modestly endowed. It had a fairly turbulent history and suffered considerably from mismanagement. It was dissolved in 1525 at the behest of Cardinal Wolsey – more than a decade before the main Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII
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A contemporary photograph show ...... of the priory's south chapels.
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Remains of the south chapels of the priory church.
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St Clement's Church, West Bromwich
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William Fitz Guy of West Bromwich
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The Priory of St Mary Magdalene of Sandwell
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-1.9648e+0
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Sandwell Priory
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Communis Sancte Marie Madalena de Sandwelle
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*Nicholas Stevens, Abbot of Sh ...... ssolution of the priory, 1525.
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Sandwell Priory was a small me ...... e Monasteries under Henry VIII
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Sandwell Priory
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