Editing Cartmel Priory (section)

==Priory==

=== Foundation ===
The [[priory]] was founded in 1190 by [[William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke|William Marshal]], created 1st [[Earl of Pembroke]], intended for a community of the [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] [[Canons regular]] and was dedicated to [[Mary (mother of Jesus)|Saint Mary the Virgin]] and [[Saint Michael]].

To support the new house, William granted it the whole [[fief]] of the district of Cartmel.<ref name=BHOL>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=38352 |title=British History Online: The Priory of Cartmel |access-date=13 March 2014}}</ref> It was first colonised by a [[Prior (ecclesiastical)|prior]] and twelve canons sent from [[Bradenstoke Priory]] in Wiltshire.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/priories/cartmel_priory.htm |title=English Priories – Cartmel Priory |publisher=The Heritage Trail |access-date=21 March 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090914021607/http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/priories/cartmel_priory.htm |archive-date=14 September 2009 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

===14th century===
Between 1327 and 1347 a chapel with four [[tracery|traceried]] windows was provided by [[John Harington, 1st Baron Harington]] in the south choir aisle; his tomb, also containing his second wife, is in the building. The stonework on the tomb contains the Harrington coat of arms with the [[Harrington knot]] as well as the Dacre coat of arms with the scallop shells.<ref>{{cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |date=2002 |title=The Buildings of England. North Lancashire |publisher=Yale University Press |page=89 |isbn=0300096178 }}</ref> The gatehouse, which apart from the church itself is the only surviving structure of the [[medieval priory]], was built between 1330 and 1340.

===15th and 16th centuries===
In the 15th century extensive work was undertaken, in part due to damage (believed to be from subsidence) in the southern part of the complex. The original cloister was demolished and a new one built to the north of the priory church. In the east end of the church, the early [[lancet window]]s were replaced by one huge window of stained glass, [[misericord]]s were installed in the choir, and the tower was extended. Unusually, the extension to the tower sits at a 45-degree angle to the base on which it rests,<ref>{{cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |date=2002 |title=The Buildings of England. North Lancashire |publisher=Yale University Press |page=87 |isbn=0300096178 }}</ref> a feature believed to be unique in England. Work on the building continued intermittently into the 16th century, when the [[choir screen]] was constructed.

The 25 [[misericord]]s date from 1440, and are of an exceptional quality. They include representation of the [[Green man]], which with its three heads sprouting foliage is said to symbolize the devil.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hayman |first1=Richard |title=Church Misericords and Bench Ends |date=2011 |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=9780747811831 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gWaHCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT48 |access-date=24 August 2016}}</ref>