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Cornworthy Priory | |
Devon | |
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The remains of Cornworthy Priory | |
Location | |
Grid reference: | SX82175561 |
Location: | 50°23’19"N, 3°39’32"W |
Order: | Augustinian |
History | |
Founded: | Early 13th century |
Dissolved: | 1539 |
Information | |
Condition: | Ruins |
Cornworthy Priory was a priory in Devon, founded in the early thirteenth century, for Augustinian nuns, and existed until 1536.[1]
At the Dissolution of the Monasteries the lands passed to the Harris family, and remained in the family until the 1640s. Thomas Harris who was a Serjeant-at-Law lived here with his wife Elizabeth. Their daughter, Anne, Lady Southwell, who was a noted poet, was born here.[2]
References
- ↑ Country Walk & Ride Summary - Court Prior (Cornworthy Priory) near Totnes - Natural England
- ↑ Jean Klene, ‘Southwell , Anne, Lady Southwell (bap. 1574, d. 1636)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 12 Oct 2017