Birkenhead Priory
is in Priory
Street,
Birkenhead,
Merseyside,
England. It is the
oldest standing
building on
Merseyside.
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Birkenhead Priory is in Priory Street, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. It is the oldest standing building on Merseyside.
The remains of the priory are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
The Priory was founded about 1150 by Hamon de Masci, 3rd Baron of Dunham Massey for the Benedictine Order.
In 1318 the monks from Birkenhead Priory were granted ferry rights by Edward II. This allowed them to build a house in what is now Water Street to store their corn. The house was also used by travellers for shelter if the weather was too bad for the ferry to cross the River Mersey.
St Mary's Tower was originally part of Birkenhead's first parish church, opened in 1821 in the grounds of the priory.
The ground floor of the Frater House contains a museum detailing the history of the site.
https://www.thebirkenheadprior...
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