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Site of Fotheringhay Priory is a Benedictine monastic foundation located in Northamptonshire, established in the eleventh century as a daughter house of Saint-Saëns Abbey in Normandy. The priory was subordinate to its Norman parent foundation and served as a significant religious establishment throughout the medieval period, though it remained relatively modest in size compared to major English abbeys. The site was dissolved during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the sixteenth century, and today survives primarily as buried archaeological remains with minimal visible structural evidence above ground.
Site of Fotheringhay Priory is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1003641. View the official record →
Site of Fotheringhay Priory is a Benedictine monastic foundation located in Northamptonshire, established in the eleventh century as a daughter house of Saint-Saëns Abbey in Normandy. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1003641.
Site of Fotheringhay Priory is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1003641.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Little Green moated site (2.6 km), Ashton Roman small town north east of Oundle (4.1 km), Saxon settlement enclosure (5.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Site of Fotheringhay Priory's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Site of Fotheringhay Priory stands on Inferior Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is limestone, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.