Snelshall

Title

Snelshall

Also Known As

Sneleshale

Dates

Founded ca. 1147; Benedictine from 1219; dissolved 1535

Dedication

Leonard

Affiliation

Lavendon

Medieval Diocese

Lincoln

Circary

Mid England

History

Snelshall was founded around 1147 as a cell or priory of Lavendon Abbey. By 1204, this community had failed and the site passed into the hands of a community of Benedictines, who inhabited the site from about 1219.

Nothing survives above ground of Snelshall Priory or of the later farm buildings which once stood on the site.

Status

Priory

Archival Sources

London, British Library

Add. MSS 37068, fol. 1

Image Credit

Site of Snelshall Priory, 2006. Wikimedia.

Files

Collection

Mid England

Citation

“Snelshall,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/289.

Geolocation

Item Relations

This Item DependentOn Item: Lavendon