St Botolph’s Priory
St Botolph's Priory was a medieval house of Augustinian canons in Colchester, Essex, founded c. 1093. The priory had the distinction of being the first and leading Augustinian convent in England until its dissolution in 1536.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jerzy Kociatkiewicz, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: medieval building in Colchester
- Also known as: “St Botolph’s Augustinian Priory”, “St Botolph’s Priory Grounds”, and “St. Botolph’s Priory”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Colchester Town railway station and Colchester Castle.
Colchester Town railway station
Railway station
Photo: Monika, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Colchester Town railway station is on the Sunshine Coast Line in the East of England, and is the secondary station serving the city of Colchester, Essex. Colchester Town railway station is situated 360 feet southeast of St Botolph’s Priory.
Colchester Castle
Museum
Photo: George Gastin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Colchester Castle is a Norman castle in Colchester, Essex, England, dating from the second half of the eleventh century. The keep of the castle is mostly intact and is the largest example of its kind anywhere in Europe, due to it being built on the foundations of the Roman Temple of Claudius. Colchester Castle is situated 1,200 feet north of St Botolph’s Priory.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Colchester and The Hythe.
Colchester
Photo: Lkcl it, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Colchester is a city in Essex, East Anglia. Home to the University of Essex, the Colchester Institute and an Army Garrison, and with its attractive old buildings, Roman wall, castle and proximity to Constable country, Colchester is an interesting place to visit.
The Hythe
Suburb
The Hythe is an area in the southeastern part of Colchester in Essex, England, on the River Colne. Historically it was a hamlet. The Hythe was home to the Paxmans Factory which manufactured automobile parts.
Lexden
Suburb
Photo: Paul Shreeve, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lexden is a suburb of Colchester in Essex, England, lying approximately 1 mile west of the city centre. It has a public house called the Crown. The parish church of St Leonard's is dedicated to Leonard of Noblac, the patron saint of prisoners. Lexden is situated 2 miles west of St Botolph’s Priory.
St Botolph’s Priory
- Categories: priory, cemetery, and tourism
- Location: City of Colchester, Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.88735° or 51° 53′ 15″ northLongitude
0.90455° or 0° 54′ 16″ eastElevation
16 feet (5 metres)Open location code
9F32VWP3+WROpenStreetMap ID
way 33603323OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemeteryOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
12382198Wikidata ID
Q7587341
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to German—“St Botolph’s Priory” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “聖博托爾夫小修道院”
- Dutch: “Augustijner priorij van St. Botolph”
- Dutch: “Priorij van St. Botolph”
- French: “Prieuré Saint Botolph”
- German: “St. Botolph’s Priory”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “St Botolph’s Priory”. Photo: Jerzy Kociatkiewicz, CC BY-SA 2.0.