St John’s Priory or Clerkenwell Priory

St John's Priory or Clerkenwell Priory, residence of the Knights Hospitallers' Grand Prior in England. The Priory, destroyed by rioters during the Peasants' Revolt in 1381, was not rebuilt until 1504. The medieval crypt of the Priory survived and was excavated in the 1980s and 1990s by the Museum of London.

Bibliographic References:

Barney Sloane and Gordon Malcolm, Excavations at the Priory of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, Clerkenwell, London (Museum of London Archaeology Service, 2004); Lionel Harry Butler and Chris Given-Wilson, Medieval Monasteries of Great Britain (Joseph, 1979), p. 61.

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