Kidwelly Priory was a Benedictine abbey in Kidwelly, Wales (in Welsh, Cydweli).
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 Christian 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] [7] with much of the surviving fabric dates to the fourteenth century, c. 1320. [8]
Priors of Kidwelly Medieval [9]
51°44′12″N 4°18′23″W / 51.7368°N 4.3065°W
Kidwelly Priory was a Benedictine abbey in Kidwelly, Wales (in Welsh, Cydweli).
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 Christian 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] [7] with much of the surviving fabric dates to the fourteenth century, c. 1320. [8]
Priors of Kidwelly Medieval [9]
51°44′12″N 4°18′23″W / 51.7368°N 4.3065°W