Ratlinghope Priory
Unfortunately
nothing remains of Ratlinghope priory as the site was thoroughly
rebuilt in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It then became the
parish church as appears in the accompanying Victorian photograph. The vill was originally a Corbet holding and by the
early thirteenth century the church had been raised into a priory when
it was led by Walter Corbet, a distant relative of Prince Llywelyn ab Iorwerth
of North Wales (d.1240). Before 1210 it was subject to St Victors of Paris
and dependent upon Wigmore abbey.
When it was suppressed under Henry VIII the priory boasted the prior
and 29 canons. Foundations of the conventional buildings were
apparently found north of the current church in the eighteenth century.
The current church carries the date of 1625 above the south door and there is nothing in the structure which goes against such a date for all the remaining fabric.
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