Leonard Stanley Priory

Leonard Stanley Priory was a priory in Gloucestershire, England. Over the years following the dissolution most of the buildings of the priory complex have been destroyed.^[1]

Leonard Stanley lies 4 miles southwest of the the town of Stroud in Gloucestershire. A priory dedicated to St Leonard was founded in or around 1131 by the Berkeley family and initially housed Austin cannons, a secular order of Augustinians. In 1146, the priory was appropriated by Gloucester Abbey and became a Benedictine cell until its dissolution in 1538. The priory church, being of Augustinian origins, housed both the conventual and parish churches under a single roof. The church is now known as St Swithuns and remains in use today as a parish church. On the western wall of the south transept corbel stones that supported the roof of the cloister are visible. Close to the southwest of the church, a chapel of earlier construction still stands which in use as a farm building. Nearby to the west lies a pond that may have been a fishpond used by the priory.

References

↑ J, Middleton (1880). "Stanley St Leonards. The college of canons and the collegiate church.". Trans of the Bristol and Gloucester Archeological Society. 5: 119–132.

Monasteries in Gloucestershire

Augustinian	Beckford Priory Cirencester Abbey St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester Horsley Priory Lechlade Priory Leonard Stanley Priory Llanthony Secunda Priory

Benedictine	Boxwell Priory Brimpsfield Priory Deerhurst Abbey Gloucester Abbey Horsley Priory Leonard Stanley Priory Minchinhampton Priory Newent Priory Prinknash Abbey Tewkesbury Abbey Winchcombe Abbey

Carmelite	Gloucester Whitefriars

Carthusian	Hatherop Priory

Cistercian	Farmcote Grange Flaxley Abbey Hailes Abbey Hazleton Abbey Kingswood Abbey St Briavels Chantry Tetbury Abbey

Crutched Friars	Wotton under Edge Friary

Dominican	Gloucester Blackfriars

Franciscan	Gloucester Greyfriars

Gilbertine	Poulton Priory

Knights Hospitaller	Quenington Preceptory

Knights Templar	Temple Guiting Preceptory Temple Guiting Grange

Independent	Berkeley Abbey Blockley Monastery Daylesford Monastery Kinley Priory Tetbury Monastery Twyinging Monastery Winchcombe Nunnery Withington Monastery Woodchester Monastery Yate Monastery

St Swithuns church Leonard Stanley - formerly the Priory Church dedicated to St Leonard

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