This covered a roughly square-shaped area, bounded by: (clockwise) Bateman's Row, Shoreditch High Street Holywell Lane, Curtain Road. Founded 1152/8 by Robert Fitz Generan and you won't be surprised to learrn that it was named after a holy well. Dissolved in 1539 as part of the Dissolution of the Monesteries.
Our picture source, the wonderful app Time Travel Explorer discusses the interesting and puzzling feature on the map jus to the west of the Priory.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Holywell Priory
This area formed part of Holywell Priory, founded 1152/8, dissolved 1539, nam...
Chief Rabbi of the British Empire. Born Slovakia, then part of Hungary. When he was aged 11 the family moved to New York. Worked for a time as a rabbi in Johannesburg. 1911 returned to New York...
Priest. Born Rome. Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate, the Pallottine Fathers. Canonized in 1963. He suggested that St Peter’s should be built but we ar...
A chapel was first built here soon after 1348 by Walter de Manny, alongside a burial ground for victims of the Black Death. In 1371 when the Charterhouse Priory was built here the chapel was inco...
Henry III granted this site to the brotherhood of St. Anthony of Vienna to set up a hospital, which over time consisted of almshouses for the poor, a church and a school. After the dissolution of t...
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