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St Botolph's Church and Priory
Heritage Open Day: A visit to St Botolph's Church and Priory combines a superb example of Norman architecture with a mid-19th-century church. Today, all that remains of St Botolph's Priory is the ruined nave of the church. This was the first Augustinian priory in Britain, built between 1100 and 1170. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s, the priory became a parish church and was badly damaged during the Civil War Siege of Colchester in 1648. Although ruined, the church continued to be used for burials in the 18th and 19th centuries. Several tombs are still visible, including those of Dr Roger Nunn (1783-1844), the first doctor to work at Colchester's earliest hospital in 1820, and William Warwick Hawkins MP (1816-68) an Essex railway builder.
Sat 20 Sep, Sun 21 Sep
Priory Street, Colchester, Essex CO2 7EE
Sat 13 Sep:1000-1500; Sun 14 Sep:1000-1500; Wed 17 Sep:1000-1400; Sat 20 Sep:1000-1500; Sun 21 Sep:1000-1500; Free Entry.
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