John Fossor

John Fossor was Prior of Durham from 1341 until his death in 1374.

Life
Fossor became Prior of Durham in 1341. In 1342 Fossor criticized the sheriff of Durham for not paying his share of incomes from the pleas in the Bishop's court. Bishop Richard de Bury issued a mandate to the sheriff ordering him to pay. The refusal of the sheriff of Durham to deliver tenants of the priory to Prior Fossor meant that Fossor once again petitioned the Bishop in a letter.

In 1346 before the Battle of Neville's Cross Fossor led the Durham monks to raise the holy corporax cloth from St. Cuthbert's tomb on Maiden's Bower during a vigil. Near his death he also commissioned the Neville Screen in Durham Cathedral.

Death
He died in 1374, living until nearly ninety years of age.