Isleham Priory Church

The Church of St Margaret of Antioch, the main surviving part of the Priory, was given to the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer in Brittany, France around 1100 by Count Alan of Brittany or his successors, and the Benedictines founded the alien priory on the site. In 1254 the monks moved to the sister cell at Linton in southern Cambridgeshire, although the site seems to have been used as a priory after that time. In 1944 Pembroke College placed the Priory in the guardianship of the Ministry of Works. It is a Grade I listed building, and now in the care of English Heritage. The foundations of the conventual buildings and the earthworks in the surrounding land were designated a…

The Priory is located north of the village of Isleham in Cambridgeshire, England. The Chapel of St Margaret of Antioch, converted to a barn at a later date, is the only surviving building in the priory complex. The site also includes the buried foundations of other priory buildings, as well as the earthwork remains of a medieval agricultural complex to the north of the church. The chapel was converted to a barn after the Reformation. In the 16th or early 17th century, a large barn door with a brick round-headed arch replaced an earlier chapel door in the same location. The roofline is believed to have been raised a century later. The chapel is 30 m in length and consists of a nave and…