Kilburn Priory
St. John the Baptist | |
| Site | |
|---|---|
| Location | Kilburn, Middlesex, England |
| Coordinates | 51°32′28″N 0°11′23″W / 51.541°N 0.1896°W |
Kilburn Priory was a small monastic community to the west.
The site was used until 1130 as a hermitage by Godwyn, a recluse, who subsequently gave the property to the conventual church of St. Peter, Westminster. The
Benedictine rule, by 1377 it was described as being an order of Augustinian canonesses. It was once believed that the Ancrene Riwle
was written for the first three nuns of Kilburn, but this is now thought unlikely.
Agnes Strickland states that the priory was established in 1128 for the three pious and charitable ladies-in-waiting of Queen Matilda of Scotland, consort of Henry I, named Emma, Gunilda, and Cristina.
After the death of the queen [in 1118] these ladies retired to the hermitage of Kilburn near London, where there was a holy well, or medicinal spring. This was changed to a priory in 1128, as the deed says, for the reception of these . . . damsels who had belonged to the chamber of Matilda.[5]
Kilburn Priory was
Knights of St. John
in exchange for other property, and then seized back by the crown in 1540.
References
- ISBN 978-1-4050-4925-2
- ^ J. E. B. Gover; Allen Mawer; F. M. Stenton (1942). The Place-names of Middlesex apart from the City of London. Vol. xviii. Cambridge: English Place-name Society. p. 112. cited in T. F. T. Baker; Diane K. Bolton; Patricia E. C. Croot (1969). "Kilburn, Edgware Road, and Cricklewood". In C R Elrington (ed.). A History of the County of Middlesex. Vol. 9: Hampstead, Paddington. pp. 47–52.
- ^ Edward Walford (1878). "Ch XIX. Kilburn and St John's Wood". Old and New London. Vol. 5. pp. 243–253.
- ISBN 978-0-19-956678-5. Archived from the original(PDF) on 29 June 2011.
- ^ Agnes Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest, vol I. (Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1841), 2nd ed, p. 270. Accessed 16 January 2013.
Further reading
- Park, John J. (1814). "Kilburn Priory". The topography and natural history of Hampstead, in the County of Middlesex. pp. 159–202.
- J.S. Cockburn; H.P.F. King; K.G.T. McDonnell, eds. (1989). "Religious Houses: 6. The Priory of Kilburn". A History of the County of Middlesex. Vol. 1. pp. 170–182.