Kyrewood Priory
Kyrewood Priory was a Norman Cluniac priory, near Tenbury Wells and the northern border of the county of Worcestershire, England.
History
The Priory was founded on Kyrewood Hill, overlooking Tenbury, in 1181 by Hugh de Mortimer, who had also founded and richly endowed the Abbey of Wigmore in 1180. Hugh de Mortimer, or possibly his son, Roger de Mortimer, founded the priory of Cluniac monks, "subordinate to the Abbey of Clugny", and "endowed it with certain lands and a water mill".[1]
Although the exact site of this little-known early Norman priory is not certain, dressed stones of substantial size, suspected to be the remains of the priory, were found during road improvements during the early twentieth century. Kyrewood Mill, on the Kyre Brook, may well have been the site of the monastery's mill, endowed by Hugh de Mortimer.
The name Kyre is said to derive from the native Celtic Caer, meaning camp, and may well refer to the earthworks overlooking the town.[citation needed]
A local historian, the late Howard Miller, who wrote a number of books on the Tenbury area, produced a video Tenbury Wells, a walk and talk with Howard Miller. This video included a section referring to Kyrewood Priory and its speculative location. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMOb_EdQ1DE&t=351s).
The available evidence suggests that Kyrewood Priory may have been relatively short-lived. In 1416, on Henry V's suppression of alien monasteries, the king annexed Tenbury and granted it to Shene (the modern Richmond) in Surrey. The Grant stated that "He granted Tenbury, and all the impropriations of, and advowson to (of?) all the spiritualities held by the Abbey of Lyra in Normandy, to his foundation the Carthusian Monastery of Shene: the impropriations and advowsons of Eastham cum Hanley, Feckenham and Tenbury, & c.......".[This quote needs a citation]
The 'Living' of Tenbury was thus then held by Shene, until the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII between 1536 and 1541, where again, no mention seems to have been made of Kyrewood Priory. It would seem, therefore, that Kyrewood Priory may have been already disestablished by the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.[original research?]
References
- ↑ Joyce, F. Wayland (1931). Tenbury - Some Record Of Its History. Oxford University Press. Search this book on
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