Qualla: Worksop Priory https://qualla.com/worksop-priory en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/worksop-priory-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Worksop Priory https://qualla.com/worksop-priory Worksop Priory: Introduction https://qualla.com/worksop-priory/ Photo credit Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0. When Henry VIII's commissioners dissolved Worksop Priory in November 1539, they did the usual thing. They pensioned off the prior and his fifteen monks, took the lead from the roof, and sold the buildings as a quarry for their stone. What is unusual is what they did not do. They did not pull down the nave. The townspeople were granted that long, twin-towered western half of the priory church for their parish use, and so today, more than nine hundred years after the first stone was laid, you can still walk in under the same arches the Augustinian canons walked under in 1180.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/worksop-priory-wp/gcrp-worksop-priory-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Worksop Priory: A Norman Priory on the River Ryton https://qualla.com/worksop-priory/ Photo credit Graham Hogg, CC BY-SA 2.0. William de Lovetot endowed the priory in 1103, granting land and money for an Augustinian house on the bank of the River Ryton in what is now central Worksop. The Augustinians were canons rather than enclosed monks - priests who lived in community but also served parishes - and t...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/worksop-priory-wp/gcrp-worksop-priory-a-norman-priory-on-the-river-ryton.mp3 0:06 2 full Worksop Priory: Crusaders and a Carved Face https://qualla.com/worksop-priory/ Photo credit Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0. The priory's medieval history is studded with names that show how completely the local gentry were tied into the wider Christian world. In the 13th century two lords of Worksop, Gerard de Furnival II and his son Thomas, died on crusade - Gerard on the Fifth Crusade in 1219, Thoma...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/worksop-priory-wp/gcrp-worksop-priory-crusaders-and-a-carved-face.mp3 0:06 3 full Worksop Priory: The Glove https://qualla.com/worksop-priory/ Photo credit Leeds543, CC BY-SA 3.0. At the dissolution the property passed to Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury, on one condition: the Earl, and whoever held the manor of Worksop after him, would attend every coronation of an English (and later British) sovereign to provide a glove for the monarch's right hand...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/worksop-priory-wp/gcrp-worksop-priory-the-glove.mp3 0:06 4 full Worksop Priory: Music in a Stone Box https://qualla.com/worksop-priory/ Photo credit Neil Theasby, CC BY-SA 2.0. Step inside today and what strikes you is the sound. The nave's high stone vault and bare walls make a generous acoustic. The 1974 organ by Peter Collins, designed on classical 17th- and 18th-century principles in a painted mahogany case, throws its 1,634 pipes' sound forward thr...

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