Print of Dunstable Priory.
Published 24 December 1819.
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and Joseph Harding, London.
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The Priory Church of Saint Peter, Dunstable, Bedforshire, with its Monastery (Dunstable Priory), was Founded in 1132 by King Henry I for Augustinian Canons[1]
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Saint Peter’s, today, is only the Nave of what remains of an originally much larger Augustinian Priory Church.
The Monastic buildings consisted of a Dormitory for the Monks, an Infirmary, Stables, Workshops, Bake-House, Brew-House, and Buttery.
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Dunstable Priory Church.
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There was a Hostel for Pilgrims and Travellers, the remains of which are known today as Priory House. Opposite the Priory was one of the Royal Palaces belonging to King Henry I, known as Kingsbury.
The present Church and Deanery form part of the Arch-Deaconry of Bedford, located within the Diocese of Saint Albans. It became a Grade I-Listed Building on 25 October 1951.[2]
The present Church and Deanery form part of the Arch-Deaconry of Bedford, located within the Diocese of Saint Albans. It became a Grade I-Listed Building on 25 October 1951.[2]
Saint Peter’s Church, Dunstable.
Illustration: SAINT PETER’S
The Augustinian Priory of Dunstable was Founded by King Henry I about 1132,[3] and endowed by him at the same time with the Lordship of the Manor and Town in which it stood.
Tradition says that the same King was also the Founder of the Town and had caused the forest to be cleared away from the point where Watling Street and the Icknield Way crossed each other, on account of the robbers who infested the highway.[4]
He granted to the Priory all such Liberties and Rights in the Town of Dunstable as he held in his own demesne lands. He also endowed the Priory with the quarry at Totternhoe.[5]
His Charter was confirmed by King Henry II; and, before the Reign of King Richard I, a great many of the Churches of the neighborhood had also been granted to the Priory by as many as thirteen different benefactors, besides the Chapel of Ruxox, in the County of Bedford, with Cublington, North Marston and half Chesham, Buckinghamshire, and Higham Ferrers with half Pattishall, Northamptonshire.
His Charter was confirmed by King Henry II; and, before the Reign of King Richard I, a great many of the Churches of the neighborhood had also been granted to the Priory by as many as thirteen different benefactors, besides the Chapel of Ruxox, in the County of Bedford, with Cublington, North Marston and half Chesham, Buckinghamshire, and Higham Ferrers with half Pattishall, Northamptonshire.
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