WENLOCK PRIORY

Here are some scenes of Wenlock Priory which is now a peaceful and beautiful ruin. There was a religious house founded on this site in around AD 680 when the Saxon King Merewath of Mercia built a monastery for men and women. The monastery was replaced shortly before 1040 with a college of priests built by Earl Leofric of Mercia and his wife Godgifu. This survived until Norman Conquest when monks were sent to Welnlock from the abbey of Cluny in France.