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St Botolph's Church and Priory
Priory Street, Colchester, Essex CO2 7EE
Fri 6 Sep to Sunday 15 Sep 2024
Fri 6 Sep:1000-1500; Sat 7 Sep:1000-1500; Sun 8 Sep:1000-1500; Tues 10 Sep:1230-1500; Thu 12 Sep:1000-1500; Fri 13 Sep:1000-1500; Sat 14 Sep:1000-1500; Sun 15 Sep:1000-1500; Free Entry.
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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 an 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.