Kington St. Michael Priory

[3] She had previously been a nun at Lacock Abbey, and had just taken up her new appointment at the start of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

In the summer of 1535 the King's visitors came to Lacock and made a favourable report.

John ap Rice wrote that he had "founde no notable compertes there" and commended the nuns of Lacock for their familiarity with their rule and constitutions.

[4] He informed Thomas Cromwell that Dame Marie Denys, "a faire young woman of Laycock", had been made Prioress of Kington, where the visitation had revealed a less satisfactory state of affairs.

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Kington St. Michael Priory in 1803. Sketch from The Gentleman Magazine , 1803. Artist unknown, possibly John Britton
Ground plan of the priory, from Brakspear (1923) [ 1 ]