The Priory Church is an Anglicanparish church in Leominster, Herefordshire, England, dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The building was constructed for a BenedictinePriory in about the 13th century, although there had been an Anglo-Saxon monastery in Leominster, possibly on the same site. In 1539 the east end of the church was destroyed along with most of the monastic buildings, but the main body of the church was preserved.
The bells of the church are very rare.[citation needed] There are ten now, but the back eight bells were cast by William Evans of Chepstow in 1755. In 1894, two new bells were cast by John Warners of London.
The Tenor weighs 22cwt 3qrts and is in the key of E-flat.[3]
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Investigations to the north of the priory in 2005 located the position of the cloister, although most of the stone had been stolen following the Dissolution. Discarded animal bones found on the site when submitted to carbon dating showed that the area was occupied in the 7th century. This agrees with the date of 660 CE associated with the founding myth, which suggests a Christian community was established here by a monk, St. Eadfrith, originally from Lindisfarne in Northumbria.[4]
The earliest known English women doctors, Solicita and Matilda Ford, are known from charters confirming their brother John's grant of land to the priory in the late twelfth century, where they both sign themselves as medica.[7]
^Kealey, Edward J.; Walton, Michael T. (1985). "Notes and Events: England's Earliest Women Doctors". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 40 (4): 473. doi:10.1093/jhmas/40.4.473. ISSN 0022-5045. JSTOR 24633766. PMID 3905951.
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