St Botolph?s Priory, Colchester
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St Botolph?s Priory, Colchester
Image: © Glyn Baker Taken: 25 Mar 2006
This is the ruin of St Botolph’s Priory, the first Augustinian monastery in England founded in the eleventh century. It survived the dissolution of the monasteries by continuing as a church. However it fell victim to the English Civil War and went out of use after the 1640’s
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Image Location
Latitude
51.886804
Longitude
0.903332