St Radegund's Priory, Cambridge

The church of the nunnery, now Jesus College Chapel
Historical plan of Jesus College (1897) showing the monastic buildings

St Radegund's Priory, Cambridge was a Benedictine nunnery in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. It was founded before 1144 (probably in the late 1130s) and dissolved in 1496 by the initiative of John Alcock, Bishop of Ely.[1]

  1. ^ 'Houses of Benedictine nuns: Priory of St Radegund, Cambridge', A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 2 (1948), pp. 218-219. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=39996 Date accessed: 21 February 2013