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Sudbury Priory

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and his wife, Griselda. They had the church and friars' house demolished and a large house built in its place. This stood about 50 yards (46 m) back from Friar Street until about 1820, when it was demolished by its owner, James Marriott. He planned to reuse the materials in building a new church
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The Dominican Friars had arrived in England in about 1224, and came to Sudbury in 1272 when Baldwin de Shimperling and his wife Mabilla had a house built for them, supported by an
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in the 16th century. The materials were used to construct a large house on the same site, which survived into the 19th century.
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of the Dominicans in England in 1527 and was granted a house and garden inside the priory grounds; he later became the
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at the Maldon Grey pub in Sudbury, but had been broken up by the turn of the 20th century.
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During the tenure of John Cotton, the last prior, the priory was suppressed as part of the
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in Friars Street, which dates from about 1500 and is a Grade II*
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The only surviving elements of the original priory are the
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Buildings and structures demolished in the 16th century
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Christian monasteries established in the 13th century
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Sudbury Priory (disambiguation)

Sudbury Priory is located in Suffolk
52°02′09″N 0°43′33″E / 52.0358351°N 0.725964°E / 52.0358351; 0.725964 (Sudbury Priory)
Sudbury, Suffolk
Denomination
Roman Catholic
Dedication
Saint Saviour
medieval
priory
Dominican Order
Sudbury, Suffolk
English Reformation
endowment
Simon Sudbury
Archbishop of Canterbury
spring
Saint Saviour
Thomas Weyland
John Hodgkins
provincial superior
Protestant
Bishop of Bedford
Dissolution of the Monasteries
shillings
Clerk of the King's Council
Twinstead
sarcophagus
horse trough

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