St. Swithun's church, Leonard Stanley – formerly the Priory Church dedicated to St. Leonard
Monastery information
Denomination
Augustinian until 1146 Benedictine after 1146
Established
c.1130
Disestablished
September 1538
Mother house
Gloucester Abbey after 1146
Dedicated to
St. Leonard
People
Founder(s)
Roger de Berkeley, II
Prior
First: Sabricht c.1130. Last known: John Rodley 1535
Site
Location
Parish of Leonard Stanley, Gloucestershire
Country
England
Coordinates
51° 43′ 40.87″ N, 2° 17′ 12.48″ W
Public access
The Priory church is in use as St Swithun's parish church
Other information
Grade 1 listed building. Designated 28 June 1960. ref 117487
Leonard Stanley Priory was a priory in Gloucestershire, England. Over the years following the dissolution most of the buildings of the priory complex have been destroyed.[1]
Leonard Stanley is a small village situated about 4 mi (6.4 km) southwest of the town of Stroud in Gloucestershire. A priory dedicated to St Leonard was founded there by the Berkeley family in about 1130. This housed Austin cannons, a secular order of Augustinians. In 1146, the priory was appropriated by Gloucester Abbey and became a Benedictine cell until its dissolution in September 1538.[2]
The priory church, being of Augustinian origin, housed both the conventual and parish churches under a single roof. The church remains in use today as a parish church and is now known as St Swithun's church. On the western wall of the south transept corbel stones that supported the roof of the cloister are visible. Close to the south-west of the church, also extant is a chapel of earlier construction currently in use as a farm building. Nearby to the west is a pond once used as a fish pond by the priory. A large tithe barn built in the 14th century lies nearby.
^J, Middleton (1880). "Stanley St Leonards. The college of canons and the collegiate church". Trans of the Bristol and Gloucester Archeological Society. 5: 119–132.
^David Verey Alan Brooks (2002). Buildings of England Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds. Yale University Press. pp. 444–447. ISBN 9780300096040.
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