St. Martin's Priory, Richmond
Ruins · United Kingdom
- Abandoned
- 1539
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 54.402, -1.728
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Martin's Priory, Richmond was a medieval monastic house in North Yorkshire, England.
History
St. Martin's Priory, Richmond was a medieval monastic house in North Yorkshire, England. It was a Benedictine house, founded about 1100, originally for 9 or 10 monks, dependent on St Mary's Abbey, York. As one of the lesser monastic houses, it was dissolved in 1539.