Swavesey Priory

{{Short description|Mediaeval monastic house in Swavesey, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Swavesey Priory''' was a medieval monastic house in the village of [[Swavesey]], [[Cambridgeshire]], [[England]]. A church existed in Swavesey at the time of the [[Norman Conquest]], when Alan, Count of Richmond, granted it to the [[Benedictine]] Abbey of St Sergius and St Bacchus in [[Angers]], [[France]]. The Abbey founded an [[alien priory]] in Swavesey by 1086.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=15503|title=A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 9: Chesterton, Northstowe, and Papworth Hundreds|year=1989|pages=374–381}}</ref> It ceased to function in 1539, during the [[dissolution of the monasteries]]. The site is now a [[scheduled monument]].<ref>{{National Heritage List for England |num=1006914|desc= Priory earthworks |accessdate=3 January 2014}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

{{coord|52.305653|0.002842|format=dms|type:landmark|display=title}}

[[Category:Monasteries in Cambridgeshire]] [[Category:Scheduled monuments in Cambridgeshire]]