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Records suggest that a priory was founded at Llanthony around 1100, and may have been built around a ruined Welsh chapel. The new structure was said to have been built at the behest of Walter de Lacy, a nobleman (Norman inevitably by then) who decided to devote his life to prayer and study.
Gradually others attached themselves to a growing band, who numbered around forty within twenty years, although in 1135 they all left for Gloucester, tired of attacks by the Welsh. Half a century was then to elapse before another member of the de Lacy family started to build here again, by 1217 completing the core of the new priory, although this was extended around 1325.
The ruins were Listed Grade 1 in 1956, a status also accorded to the Court Farm Barn, St. David's Church and the Abbey Hotel, all three of which are in the abbey precincts. It is in the care of CADW.
Llanthony Prory is in the Vale of Ewyas, which runs west of the Hatterrall Ridge in the Black Mountains. A largely single-track road runs through the deep valley from Llanvihangel Crucorney to Hay-on-Wye.
Llanthony 100618_16
Records suggest that a priory was founded at Llanthony around 1100, and may have been built around a ruined Welsh chapel. The new structure was said to have been built at the behest of Walter de Lacy, a nobleman (Norman inevitably by then) who decided to devote his life to prayer and study.
Gradually others attached themselves to a growing band, who numbered around forty within twenty years, although in 1135 they all left for Gloucester, tired of attacks by the Welsh. Half a century was then to elapse before another member of the de Lacy family started to build here again, by 1217 completing the core of the new priory, although this was extended around 1325.
The ruins were Listed Grade 1 in 1956, a status also accorded to the Court Farm Barn, St. David's Church and the Abbey Hotel, all three of which are in the abbey precincts. It is in the care of CADW.
Llanthony Prory is in the Vale of Ewyas, which runs west of the Hatterrall Ridge in the Black Mountains. A largely single-track road runs through the deep valley from Llanvihangel Crucorney to Hay-on-Wye.