St Leonard's Priory, Stamford

St Leonard's Priory, Stamford was a priory^[1] in Lincolnshire, England. It was built in Stamford, supposedly on the site of a monastery which was founded by St Wilfrid in 658 and destroyed in the Danish invasion.^[2]

St Leonard's Priory

Remains of the priory church from Francis Peck's Academia tertia Anglicana (1727)

It was jointly refounded by William the Conqueror and William de St-Calais, the Bishop of Durham, in c1082 and remained a cell of Durham until its dissolution in 1538.^[3]

Part of the fine transitional west front and north arcade of the church survive. The ruins and site of St Leonard's Priory is a Scheduled Monument and the structure is a Grade I listed building.^[3][4]

See also

• Greyfriars, Stamford