Client:- Shropshire Council
Project:- Much Wenlock
Aerial reconstruction illustration of medieval Much Wenlock & priory. Showing how the medieval monastery would have looked before the dissolution.
Wenlock Priory, or St Milburga’s Priory, is a ruined 12th-century monastery, located in Much Wenlock, Shropshire.
Roger de Montgomery re-founded the Priory as a Cluniac house between 1079 and 1082, on the site of an earlier 7th-century monastery. In 1101 bones, believed to be those of Saint Milburga, were discovered beneath the floor of the old church. The relics were ceremoniously translated to the main monastery church.
Much Wenlock is a market town and parish in Shropshire, England. Notable historic attractions in the town are Wenlock Priory and the Guildhall. The Wenlock Olympian Games established by William Penny Brookes in 1850 are centred in the town. Brookes is credited as a founding father of the modern Olympic Games, and one of the London 2012 Summer Olympics mascots was named Wenlock after the town.
