Prittlewell, Essex - Cluniac Priory of St.Mary
Prittlewell Priory

Prittlewell Priory

Southend-on-Sea

A former Cluniac priory in a public park, now a museum.

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ChurchTime here: 45 min – 1.5 h

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Priory Crescent, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6AH

Quick facts

Building began around 1110, as a cell of the Cluniac priory of St Pancras at Lewes.

It opened as Southend's first museum in 1922 and reopened after a two-million-pound refurbishment in 2012.

The priory stands in Priory Park, which the Duke of York opened in 1920.

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