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   Dunstable Priory

   The Priory Church of St Peter with its monastery (Dunstable Priory) was founded in 1132 by Henry I for Augustinian Canons in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England.
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   Dunstable

   The Dunstable Priory Church of Saint Peter was founded in 1131 by the King and was later featured as the setting for the divorce between Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, which led to the separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church.
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   Abbeys and priories in England

   | Pulloxhill Grange | | Augustinian Canons Regular; grange of Dunstable Priory | | | | 51°59′40″N 0°27′12″W / 51.994315, -0.453444 |
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   List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England

   Dunstable Priory (Augustinian)
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   Richard de Morins

   On his return to England, he was a canon of Merton Priory, before becoming prior at Dunstable Priory in 1202.
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   Anne Boleyn

   On 23 May 1533, Cranmer, sitting in judgment at a special court convened at Dunstable Priory to rule on the validity of the King's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, declared the marriage of Henry and Catherine null and void.
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   Clock

   In 1283, a large clock was installed at Dunstable Priory; its location above the rood screen suggests that it was not a water clock.
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   Henry VIII of England

   On 23 May 1533, Cranmer, sitting in judgment at a special court convened at Dunstable Priory to rule on the validity of the king's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, declared the marriage of Henry and Catherine null and void.
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   1540s in England

   January - Dunstable Priory closed down as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
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    Church of Saint John the Baptist, Liverpool

    The area under the tower has made into the Chapel of the Holy Rood and contains a reredos, an altar and a credence table which were adapted in 1978 from a rood screen of 1890 by Bodley which was taken from Dunstable Priory.

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• List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England,
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• Henry VIII of England,
• 1540s in England,
• Church of Saint John the Baptist, Liverpool