# Swavesey Priory

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Mediaeval monastic house in Swavesey, England

**Swavesey Priory** was a medieval monastic house in the village of [Swavesey](/source/Swavesey), [Cambridgeshire](/source/Cambridgeshire), [England](/source/England). A church existed in Swavesey at the time of the [Norman Conquest](/source/Norman_Conquest), when Alan, Count of Richmond, granted it to the [Benedictine](/source/Benedictine) Abbey of St Sergius and St Bacchus in [Angers](/source/Angers), [France](/source/France). The Abbey founded an [alien priory](/source/Alien_priory) in Swavesey by 1086.[1] It ceased to function in 1539, during the [dissolution of the monasteries](/source/Dissolution_of_the_monasteries). The site is now a [scheduled monument](/source/Scheduled_monument).[2]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [*A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 9: Chesterton, Northstowe, and Papworth Hundreds*](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=15503). 1989. pp. 374–381.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Historic England](/source/Historic_England). ["Priory earthworks (1006914)"](https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1006914?section=official-list-entry). *[National Heritage List for England](/source/National_Heritage_List_for_England)*. Retrieved 3 January 2014.

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