This covered a roughly square-shaped area, bounded by: (clockwise) Bateman's Row, Shoreditch High Street Holywell Lane, Curtain Road. Founded 1152/8 by Robert Fitz Generan and you won't be surprised to learrn that it was named after a holy well. Dissolved in 1539 as part of the Dissolution of the Monesteries.
Our picture source, the wonderful app Time Travel Explorer discusses the interesting and puzzling feature on the map jus to the west of the Priory.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Holywell Priory
This area formed part of Holywell Priory, founded 1152/8, dissolved 1539, nam...
In 1740 this French Hugeonot church moved into the building in Hanbury Street, with a patent granted by King James II.
Officially, The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster. According to tradition, there has been a religious establishment on the site since the seventh century. Construction of the present bui...
Destroyed in the Great Fire. The new building by Wren, 1670-1679, was damaged by bombing in 1917 but survives.
Initially called 'sha'arhashamayim', the Gate of Heaven, this was the first professing Jewish community in the British Isles to be established in modern times (following the expulsion) and formed t...
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