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The Benedictine Priory of St. Mary was consecrated in 1043, plundered supposedly by Bishop Robert de Limesey in c.1100 and turned into a fortress by Robert Marmion in 1143. Hugh de Nonant (Bishop, 1188-98) rebuilt parts of the priory, but a new start had to await the mid-thirteenth century's comparative prosperity. Chapels were added during the later Middle Ages and most of the recent excavations have been of fourteenth- or fifteenth-century structures. In 1404 and 1459 Parliament met at the priory, and in 1462 the corporation agreed to divert the city walls so as to accommodate its pools near the River Sherbourne. After the Dissolution the priory was rapidly plundered again for stone used in secular buildings.
Precinct property, 1703. PA309/113-115.
Monastery, watermill and dyehouse in precincts, 1574 - 1685. PA309/122-126.
Letter about remains, 1947. PA313/214/5.
Boy's sketch of ruins, late nineteenth centurty. PA368/101/141.
Historical notes, c.1873. PA226/2 fols. 21-29.
Prior's interest in Cellet's Chantry, Holy Trinity, 1329. PA40/1.
Interest in land at Fletchamstead, c.1539. PA69/1.
Roger de Montalt's conveyance of Saint Mary Magdalene's Hospital to the Priory, c.1250. PA71/1 fol. 56.
Antiquarian discussion upon, 1851. PA71/1 fols. 225-230.
Land in Forest of Heywood, Nottinghamshire, 1343. PA80/1.
Corporation enfeoffments for parts of the estate, 1655 - 1744. PA90/8-10,13-16,18,22-24.
Possessed advowson of Holy Trinity church (mid-nineteenth century note). PA122/1 fol. 4.
Antiquarian interest, 1797. PA122/1 fols. 88 recto - 87 recto [sic].
Discussion about showing Lady Godiva's figure on Council House holding model of Priory, 1916. PA159/1/187,192,203.
Coat of arms. PA492/5 fol. 2.
Reference to Priory land at Walsgrave, 1405. PA152/8.
Troughton Drawings, mid nineteenth century. PA1/2 fols. 29 (fol. "20"), 30 (fol. "21"), 32 (fol. "23"), 61 (fol. "46"); PA1/3 fols. 28 (fol. "21"), 39 (fol. "32"); PA1/5 fol. 18 (fol. "10"); PA1/6 fol. 65 (fol. "33"); PA1/7 fol. 46 (fol. "30"), fol. 48 (fol. "32"); PA1/8 fol. 2, fols. 3,4 (fols. "a","b"); PA1/9; PA1/10 fols. 41,42 (fols. "31a","31b").
Memorandum about Montalts' c.1250 grant, late seventeenth century. PA2/4 fol. 1 verso (ii).
Owned the former "Crown" inn, Earl Street, 1528. PA9/1.
Former property, 1545. PA12/2.
Seventeenth- to nineteenth-centuries copies of muniments (1043 - Reformation). PA14/1; PA14/2: PA21.
Tithe-disputes about its former Coventry-county lands, late sixteenth to late eighteenth centuries. PA17/6-9.
Muster, 1522. PA24/1 fol. 91 recto - verso.
Photographs of seal, early twentieth century. PA231/4/1,2.
Copy (1738) of Richard Moryson's quitclaim (1546). PA244/37/4.
Transfer to Coventry corporation. 1572-73. PA244/37/6-8.
Whitmore Park estate in Hill family's hands, early nineteenth century. PA257/4/31; PA257/5/3.
[Borough archive references to land adjoining other estates' are to be found under Orders (Religious) in the subject-index.]
Estate, c.1600. in BA/A/A/17/1.
Saint Mary's Chapel was new, c.1290. BA/B/P/434/1.
Rent paid to the sacrist, 1270s. BA/H/H/67/15.
Rent paid towards the high altar's maintenance, early 1250s. BA/H/H/84/1.
Charles Hales sold site to the corporation, 1574. BA/H/Q/A79/68B.
Holders of ex-Priory lands to pay Duchy of Cornwall rentcharge, 1611-20. BA/H/Q/A79/103,128.
Site-lease surrendered, 1648. BA/H/Q/F20/8/4.
Copy (early eighteenth century) of corporation account (1542) for purchasing estate. BA/L/E/1/1.
Shop at abbey gate, mid 1240s - 1393. BA/B/P/14/5; BA/B/P/60/4.
Fee farms, 1361 - 1421. BA/B/A/1/5-20.
Tenement on northern side, 1537. BA/B/A/24/1.
Croft with ruins on site, 1611-55. BA/B/A/25/1-9.
Dyehouse, 1612 - c.1825. BA/B/A/26/1-4.
Garden, 1637-77. BA/B/A/27/1-3.
Composition with Saint John's Hospital, 1425. BA/H/Q/F20/1/1.
Servants, 1524. PA479/1 fol. 6 recto.
Benefited under Thomas Bond's 1506 will, PA54/3/1.
Bishop's Palace garden partly taken for extension to Saint MIchael's burial-ground, 1793. PA54/171/5.
Bishop's Palace garden was a boundary, 1613. PA54/192/1; PA54/193/1.
Property conveyed for Freeschool, 1571. PA500/19/3.
History[, 1875]. PA506/93/1.
Fresh remains recently uncovered, 1859. PA506/235/4-6.
Lecture on mentioned, 18523. PA541.
Ruins' preservation, 1928-32. PA575/10.