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Pontefract Priory was a Cluniac monastery dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, founded about 1090 by Robert de Lacy, 2nd Baron of Pontefract, and located in Yorkshire, England. It existed until the dissolution of the monasteries . [ 1 ]
Pontefract Priory, a Cluniac priory founded in 1090 by Robert de Lacy dedicated to St John the Evangelist was dissolved by royal authority in 1539. [21] The priory maintained the Chartularies of St John, a collection of historic documents later discovered among family papers by Thomas Levett , the High Sheriff of Rutland , a native of Yorkshire ...
Exhibits include finds from Pontefract Castle and St. John's Priory, Pontefract, coins from the English Civil War, packaging from the Pontefract liquorice factories, coloured glass and locally printed material. [4] Most of the collection has Pontefract connections, including the mining history of the town.
The Church of All Saints in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England is an active Church of England parish church in the archdeaconry of Pontefract and the Diocese of Leeds.The church consists of two structures, an outer church constructed in the 14th and 15th century and ruined in the English Civil War and a smaller inner church completed in the late 1960s.
Edmund was the son and heir of John de Lacy, jure uxoris Earl of Lincoln (c. 1192–1240) 8th Baron of Halton, 8th Hereditary Constable of Chester, and feudal baron of Pontefract. [1] His father was one of the 25 barons who forced John, King of England to sign Magna Carta in 1215.
John was one of two persons knighted on 8 September 1483 in York during the celebrations which invested his half-brother Edward of Middleham as Prince of Wales. [8] John is known to have been in Calais by November 1484 and was officially appointed Captain of Calais by his father on 11 March 1485. His letter of appointment has Richard referring ...
Pontefract Sports and Social Club, formerly known as the Labour Club is situated on the edge of the estate. There where two churches on the estate; St Mary's Church of England church and Holy Family Roman Catholic Church (completed 1961), [ 1 ] however St Mary's Church has been demolished and a new building called St Mary's Community Centre now ...
St John the Baptist's Church, Wakefield, West Yorkshire; Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin, Wakefield; St Peter's Church, Walton, Leeds; St James' Parish Church, Wetherby; St Mary's Church, Whitkirk; St Mark's Church, Woodhouse, Leeds; St Augustine's Church, Wrangthorn