Holywell Priory

A map made in 1920, showing the details of the priory as they might have been in 1544 (from an agreement between Alice Hampton and the Prioress concerning her use of the Priory)

Holywell Priory or Haliwell, Halliwell, or Halywell (various spellings),[1] was a religious house in Shoreditch, formerly in the historical county of Middlesex and now in the London Borough of Hackney. Its formal name was the Priory of St John the Baptist.[2]

The Priory stood at Holywell Lane on the west side of Shoreditch towards Hoxton, its precinct lying within the area now bounded by Batemans Row, Shoreditch High Street, Holywell Lane, and Curtain Road.[3]

  1. ^ Hasted, Edward (1797). "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent". Institute of Historical Research.
  2. ^ Cockburn, J. S.; et al., eds. (1969). "A History of the County of Middlesex". Victoria County History.
  3. ^ The Augustinian Priory of St. John the Baptist, Holywell, in James Bird (ed.), Survey of London: Volume 8, Shoreditch, London, 1922, pp. 153-184 and pls. 1 and 183. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol8/pp153-187 [accessed 26 September 2017]; Religious Houses: Houses of Augustinian canonesses: 5. The Priory of Haliwell, in J.S. Cockburn, H.P.F. King and K.G.T. McDonnell, A History of the County of Middlesex, Volume 1, London, 1969, pp. 170-182. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol1/pp170-182 [accessed 26 September 2017].