Location: Ewenny, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
Photos of Ewenny Priory and Ewenny Priory House by Joann Hanmer, 2021.
Address: Abbey Rd, Bridgend CF35 5BW.
Ewenny Priory was a cell of the Benedictine abbey of St Peter, Gloucester, founded within the lordship of Ogmore in the early 12th century. It is exceptional for its remarkably intact Romanesque Priory Church and its fortified precinct wall.
Originally built in the early 12th Century, Ewenny Priory was a Benedictine foundation connected to St. Peter's abbey, Gloucester and housed a prior and 10-15 monks. In the 16th Century the abbey was dissolved by Henry the VIII and purchased by Sir Edward Carne whose family lived there until the early 18th Century when is passed by marriage to the Turbervill family who have lived there ever since.
The church has been described as "The best-preserved example of a Norman priory church in South Wales"; “The most complete and impressive Norman building in Glamorgan” and “A remarkable example of pure Norman work throughout”
Among its unique features are its fortifications, the only surviving Romanesque wall-painting in Wales, the 21st century Pulpitum Screen by Alexander Beleschenko and the fact that it has been in continuous use for almost 900 years. [1]
" Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, parts of the priory were converted into a private house by Sir Edward Carne, a lawyer and diplomat. This Elizabethan house was demolished between 1803 and 1805 and replaced by a Georgian mansion, Ewenny Priory House. The house is still owned by the Turbervill family, descendants of Sir Edward. "[2]
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