Cartmel Priory
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Cartmel Priory is a former medieval Augustinian monastery in Cartmel, Cumbria, England. The priory's surviving church serves as the Anglican parish church of Cartmel.
Cartmel Priory Church
The Harrington Tomb
Surviving stained glass in the east window
Sculpture commemorating the canons and parishioners hanged at the Dissolution, by Josefina de Vasconcellos
John Harington, 1st Baron Harington of Aldingham in Furness, Lancashire, was an English peer, created Baron Harington by writ of summons to Parliament dated 1326.
Cartmel Priory
…the intention. Between 1327 and 1347 the south choir aisle was rebuilt as a larger chapel with four traceried windows in the Decorated Gothic style by John Harington, 1st Baron Harington. This new chapel houses his tomb (within which his second wife, Joan de Dacre, is also interred), one of the finest monuments of its date. The stonework…
Monument and effigies of John Harington, 1st Baron Harington (died 1347) and his wife, Cartmel Priory. A 1646 drawing of it by Daniel King showed the arms of Dacre on the monument
Harington built Gleaston Castle on the Furness Peninsula, replacing the family's castle at Aldingham Motte.