St Guthlac's Priory (or the Benedictine Priory of Saints Peter, Paul and Guthlac) was a

Benedictine The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (, abbreviated as O.S.B. or OSB), are a mainly contemplative monastic order of the Catholic Church for men and for women who follow the Rule of Saint Benedict. Initiated in 529, th ...

priory in

Hereford Hereford ( ) is a cathedral city and the county town of the ceremonial county of Herefordshire, England. It is on the banks of the River Wye and lies east of the border with Wales, north-west of Gloucester and south-west of Worcester. With ...

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. It was originally founded in the early 12th century near the Church of St Guthlac in town. After the church was ruined circa 1143, during

the Anarchy The Anarchy was a civil war in England and Duchy of Normandy, Normandy between 1138 and 1153, which resulted in a widespread breakdown in law and order. The conflict was a war of succession precipitated by the accidental death of William Adel ...

, it relocated to a site between the present day Bath Street and Commercial Road at . It was disestablished in 1538 as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the

English Reformation The English Reformation began in 16th-century England when the Church of England broke away first from the authority of the pope and bishops Oath_of_Supremacy, over the King and then from some doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church ...

, and purchased by John Prise.

Priors

* Thomas Conyngesby, fl. 1485Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; in 1485; CP 40/891, seen : http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT3/R3/CP40no891/aCP40no891fronts/IMG_0450.htm

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