Kidwelly Priory



Kidwelly Priory was a Benedictine abbey in Kidwelly, Wales (in Welsh, Cydweli).

Roger, bishop of Salisbury (d.1139), a Norman invader founded the priory of Kidwelly, but it seems to have been a place of Celtic Christian veneration of Saint Cadog for some centuries prior to that.

It was a daughter abbey of Sherborne Abbey, and although well documented in the historical record it appears to have remained small for its extent. It was dissolved 1539, by Henry VIII.

Today the abbey remains a parish church, St Mary's with much of the surviving fabric dates to the fourteenth century, c. 1320.

Priors of Kidwelly
Priors of Kidwelly Medieval
 * 1240 Abraham
 * 1268 Gervase
 * 1284 Ralph de Bemenster
 * 1301 Galfridus de Coker
 * 1346 Robert Dunster
 * 1361 John Flode
 * 1399 Philip Morevyle
 * 1404 John de Kidwelly
 * 1428 Robert Fyfhede
 * 1438 John Cauntville
 * 1482 John Sherborne
 * 1487 John Henstrige
 * 1520 John Whitchurche
 * 1534 John Godmyston
 * 1539 John Painter