Kidwelly Priory

Kidwelly Priory was a Benedictine abbey in Kidwelly, Wales.

Roger, bishop of Salisbury (d.1139), a Norman invader founded the priory of Kidwelly,^[1] but it seems to have been a place of Celtic veneration of Saint Cadog for some centuries prior to that.^[2][3][4]

It was a daughter abbey of Sherborne Abbey,^[5] and although well documented in the historical record it appears to have remained small for its extent. It was dissolved 1539, by Henry VIII.

Today the abbey remains a parish church, St Mary's^[6] with much of the surviving fabric dates to the fourteenth century, c. 1320.^[7]

Priors of Kidweli

Priors of Kidwelly Medieval^[8]

• 1240 Abraham
• 1268 Gervase
• 1284 Ralph de Bemenster
• 1301 Galfridus de Coker
• 1346 Robert Dunster
• 1361 John Flode
• 1399 Philip Morevyle
• 1404 John de Kidwelly
• 1428 Robert Fyfhede
• 1438 John Cauntville
• 1482 John Sherborne
• 1487 John Henstrige
• 1520 John Whitchurche
• 1534 John Godmyston
• 1539 John Painter

References

1. ↑ D. Daven Jones, A History of Kidwelly (Carmarthen, 1908), pp. 612.
2. ↑ Royal Commission of Ancient Monuments. Carmarthenshire Inventory (HMSO, 1917), p.55.
3. ↑ F. G. Cowley, The Monastic Order in South Wales, 1066-1349 (Cardiff, 1977), chap. II.
4. ↑ Kegidock: Killey — A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (pp.445-456).
5. ↑ Kidwelly (Priory).
6. ↑ Kidwelly, St Mary's Church BY David Ross.
7. ↑ Remnants of Kidwelly Priory.
8. ↑ Kidwelly Priory by GLANMOR WILLIAMS.

Coordinates: 51°44′12″N 4°18′23″W / 51.7368°N 4.3065°W