Priory Church

Priory Church is the name of many Christian churches which have had a connection with a priory.

Examples (arranged by order of country, then place-name) include:

France

• Saint-Michel de Grandmont Priory, Saint-Privat, Hérault

Spain

• Priory Church, El Puerto de Santa María

United Kingdom

When monasteries were closed in the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century, the churches were often given a new role as parish churches. At Oxford a priory church became the city's cathedral.

While priory churches are usually associated with former priories rather than active priories, a few priories have been constructed since the Reformation, for example St Dominic's Priory Church.

• Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny
• St Mary's Church, Bungay
• Bridlington Priory
• Cartmel Priory
• Christchurch Priory
• Dunstable Priory
• Edington Priory
• Priory Church of St George, Dunster
• Lancaster Priory
• Priory Church of St. Anthony, Lenton
• Priory Church, Leominster
• St Bartholomew-the-Great, London
• St Dominic's Priory Church, London
• Clerkenwell Priory (Priory Church of St John of Jerusalem), London
• Oxford Cathedral (Priory Church of St Frideswide)
• Priory of St. Andrews of the Ards, Stogursey
• Priory Church of St. Peter, Thurgarton

See also

• List of English abbeys, priories and friaries serving as parish churches