St Leonard's Priory, Stamford

St Leonard's Priory, Stamford was a priory[1] in Lincolnshire, England.

It was built in Stamford, supposedly on the site of a monastery which was founded by St Wilfrid in 658 and destroyed in the Danish invasion.

[2] It was jointly refounded by William the Conqueror and William de St-Calais, the Bishop of Durham, in c1082 and remained a cell of Durham until its dissolution in 1538.

[3] Part of the fine transitional west front and north arcade of the church survive.

The ruins and site of St Leonard's Priory is a Scheduled Monument and the structure is a Grade I listed building.