Kilpeck Priory

{{short description|Benedictine priory in Herefordshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

'''Kilpeck Priory''' was a [[Benedictines|Benedictine]] priory in [[Kilpeck]], [[Herefordshire]], [[England]], at {{gbmapping|SO448303}}.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Benedictine Priory, Kilpeck |work=Herefordshire Through Time |publisher=[[Herefordshire Council]] |url=http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/htt/smrSearch/Monuments/Monument_Item.aspx?ID=7125 |access-date=2010-09-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609101432/http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/htt/smrSearch/Monuments/Monument_Item.aspx?ID=7125 |archive-date=2011-06-09 }}</ref>

In 1134, William, son of Norman, gave the church of St David, Kilpeck, and the Chapel of St Mary to [[Gloucester Abbey]], and a Priory cell was established about 400 yards South East of the church, to house some monks displaced from [[Llanthony Priory]] by attacks of the Welsh. In 1428 the church was united to Gloucester.

In 1320, there was a chantry chapel in the forest of [[Treville, Herefordshire]], and its control was later disputed between Sir Baldwill of Trevville and the Prior of Kilpeck Priory.<ref>[https://kilpeckchurch.org.uk/the-church/the-history-of-kilpeck-church/kilpeck-timeline/ Kilpeck Timeline] at kilpeckchurch.org.uk, accessed 26 May 2020</ref>

Members of the archaeology section of the [[Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club]] visited the site on 18 March 1979. Earthworks lie about seventy yards to the SSW of Priory Farm and are a slight platform and banks, so maybe the remains of the priory. The ground slopes away to the SW of the farmhouse and there appears to be a fishpond towards the lower part of the slope, now dry.

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[[Category:Monasteries in Herefordshire]]