Minting Priory

Reference Name MLI43553

Name:
Minting Priory

Summary:
Minting Priory was a small Benedictine Alien Priory

Location:
MINTING, EAST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

Description:
A Benedictine priory, a cell of St Benoit-sur-Loire, founded before 1129 and granted by Ralph Earl of Chester. The earliest mention of a Prior is in 1213. The priory was dissolved in 1414. {1}{2}

The site of the alien priory of Minting, suppressed by 1403. The site was granted in 1421 to Mount Grace Priory, North Yorkshire, as a grange. The earthworks visible represent stock compounds, yards, ponds and the grange buildings within a small moat. A broad hollow way connects the moat to the village. The ponds have been cleaned out and enlarged, but the earthworks represent a well-preserved grange of late medieval type. {3}{4}

Sources:
1 Bibliographic reference: Page, W. (editor). 1906. The Victoria County History. Lincolnshire volume II. VOL 2 P 239-40
2 Bibliographic reference: Knowles, D. and Hadcock, R. N.. 1971. Medieval Religious Houses, England and Wales. pp.84, 90
3 Scheduling record: HBMC. 1974. AM 7. -
4 Scheduling record: HBMC. 1987. AM 107. -
5 Aerial Photograph: 1945-84. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY COLLECTION. CFI84,1978,