Pill priory chancel
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Pill priory chancel
Image: © Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff Taken: 17 Mar 2007
This shows the surviving chancel arch of the priory church. The Tironian order, to which the monks here belonged, was founded by Bernard of Tiron, a C12 French Benedictine who was one of several at that time promoting a return to a more spiritual and less wordly form of religious life, nevertheless this was clearly not an impoverished establishment. An old engraving by Henri Gastineau of the priory in a more intact state can be found here http://www.oldprints.co.uk/prints/wa/pembs/wa207u.htm
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Image Location
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51.724639
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-5.038229