Description
Joe Hillaby combines his extensive knowledge of the early British church, the Saxon minster and subsequent priory with recent research and archaeological excavation to present a picture of Leominster from the foundation of its minster, c.660, and associated borough, c.1123, to the priory’s dissolution in 1539.
Chapters consider many aspects of the priory’s functions, and its relations with the bishops of Hereford, the townspeople and local congregation. They catalogue the effects of the priory on the borough’s location, development and shape. In this edition some of the mono illustrations have been replaced by ones in colour, whilst a new Preface notes the research that has been carried out since 2006, when the first edition was published.
This book thus brings together countless strands to give an understanding of Leominster and its rural hinterland.
Paperback | 320 pages | 258 x 201 mm | 2006, new edition 2025
c. 100 b&w illustrations and 34 pages of colour illustrations
ISBN 9781910839843
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