Dunstable Priory
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Dunstable Priory

Also known as Priory Church of St Peter Churchyard

Dunstable, Central Bedfordshire Unitary Authority, Bedfordshire, England

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    Coordinates: 51.88599, -0.51779
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Dunstable can be reached via the M1 Motorway, exit at the A505 (junction 11) and follow the signs to Dunstable. At the next roundabout (Halfway House restaurant on the right) take the second exit, towards Dunstable. Keep straight ahead towards Dunstable town centre, and you will see the Priory Church of St Peter on your left. History: In 1131 King Henry I established an Augustinian priory at Dunstable. It was at Dunstable Priory that the annulment of Katherine of Aragon's marriage to Henry VIII was announced in 1533. The Augustinians were evicted shortly after in the Dissolution of the Monasteries, but parts of the priory church of St. Peter have survived as the town‚s parish church. There is a burial ground beside the church, which closed to burials in around 1860 or so, with a new cemetery in West Street, Dunstable replacing it. This Priory Church burial ground is neatly mowed, and still retains several gravestones, some still upright, others now fallen flat onto the ground. There are large gaps in between the headstones presumably containing graves which are now unmarked.
Dunstable can be reached via the M1 Motorway, exit at the A505 (junction 11) and follow the signs to Dunstable. At the next roundabout (Halfway House restaurant on the right) take the second exit, towards Dunstable. Keep straight ahead towards Dunstable town centre, and you will see the Priory Church of St Peter on your left. History: In 1131 King Henry I established an Augustinian priory at Dunstable. It was at Dunstable Priory that the annulment of Katherine of Aragon's marriage to Henry VIII was announced in 1533. The Augustinians were evicted shortly after in the Dissolution of the Monasteries, but parts of the priory church of St. Peter have survived as the town‚s parish church. There is a burial ground beside the church, which closed to burials in around 1860 or so, with a new cemetery in West Street, Dunstable replacing it. This Priory Church burial ground is neatly mowed, and still retains several gravestones, some still upright, others now fallen flat onto the ground. There are large gaps in between the headstones presumably containing graves which are now unmarked.

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