Lenton Priory

Lenton Priory
The remains of a stone column from the priory
Lenton Priory is located in Greater Nottingham
Lenton Priory
Location within Greater Nottingham
Monastery information
OrderCluniac
EstablishedC.1102-8
Disestablished1538
Mother houseCluny Abbey
Dedicated toHoly Trinity
People
Founder(s)William Peverel
Site
LocationLenton, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Coordinates52°56′37″N 1°10′43″W / 52.943611°N 1.178611°W / 52.943611; -1.178611
Grid referenceSK5518938819

Lenton Priory was a Cluniac monastic house in Nottinghamshire, founded by William Peverel circa 1102-8. The priory was granted a large endowment of property in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire by its founder, which became the cause of violent disagreement following its seizure by the crown and its reassignment to Lichfield Cathedral. The priory was home mostly to French monks until the late 14th century when the priory was freed from the control of its foreign mother-house. From the 13th-century the priory struggled financially and was noted for "its poverty and indebtedness". The priory was dissolved as part of King Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries.