St Mary’s Priory Church
St Mary's Priory Church, in Whitecross Street, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales, is an Anglican church founded as a Benedictine priory in 1075. The current church dates mostly from the 18th and 19th centuries.Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Church
- Description: church in Monmouth, Wales
- Also known as: “Church of St Mary”, “St Mary’s Church, Monmouth”, and “St Mary’s Priory Church, Monmouth”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Monmouth Priory and Savoy Theatre.
Monmouth Priory
Public building
Photo: Philbly, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Monmouth Priory, in Priory Street, Monmouth, Wales, is a building that incorporates the remains of the monastic buildings attached to St Mary's Priory Church.
Savoy Theatre
Theater building
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Savoy Theatre, Church Street, Monmouth is a theatre and cinema, reputedly the oldest working theatre site in Wales. It has a capacity for 360 people and is run by a charitable trust.
Monmouth Castle
Castle
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Monmouth Castle is a castle close to the centre of the town of Monmouth, the county town of Monmouthshire, on a hill above the River Monnow in south-east Wales. Monmouth Castle is situated 740 feet southwest of St Mary’s Priory Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Monmouth and Overmonnow.
Monmouth
Overmonnow
Suburb
Photo: Robin Drayton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Overmonnow is a suburb of the town of Monmouth, in Wales, which is located to the west of the River Monnow and the Monnow Bridge. It developed in the Middle Ages, when it was protected by a defensive ditch, the Clawdd-du or "Black Dyke", the remains of which are now protected as an ancient monument.
Dixton
Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dixton is a small village located 1 mile north east of Monmouth, on the banks of the River Wye, in Monmouthshire, south east Wales. The parish originally comprised the two manors of Dixton Newton and Dixton Hadnock, on either side of the river.
St Mary’s Priory Church
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.81323° or 51° 48′ 48″ northLongitude
-2.71396° or 2° 42′ 50″ westOpen location code
9C3VR77P+7COpenStreetMap ID
way 164252659OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q1087515
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Welsh—“St Mary’s Priory Church” goes by many names.
- Czech: “Převorský kostel svaté Marie”
- Dutch: “St Mary’s Priory Church”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كنيسه سانت مارى بريورى”
- Esperanto: “Prioreja Preĝejo St. Mary”
- Finnish: “Pyhän Marian kirkko”
- Hindi: “सेंट मैरी प्रायरी चर्च”
- Hungarian: “St. Mary-kolostortemplom”
- Japanese: “サン・メアリズ小修道院教会”
- Latin: “Ecclesia Sanctae Mariae”
- Russian: “Монастырская церковь святой Марии”
- Russian: “Монастырская церковь Святой Марии”
- Welsh: “Eglwys Prior y Santes Fair”
- Welsh: “Eglwys Priordy’r Santes Fair”
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