Christchurch Priory

Christchurch Priory is a religious ward and previous cloister church in Christchurch in the English district of Dorset in the past in Hampshire. It is the longest area church in the nation and is bigger than 21 English Anglican Cathedrals. The story of Christchurch Priory backpedals to at any rate the center of the eleventh century, as Domesday says there was a convent of 24 mainstream groups here in the rule of Edward the Confessor.

The Priory is on the site of a prior chapel dating from 800AD. In 1094 a central clergyman of William II, Ranulf Flambard, at that point Dean of Twynham, started the working of a congregation. Neighborhood legend has it that Flambard initially planned the congregation to be based over close-by St. Catherine's Hill however amid the night all the building materials were strangely transported to the site of the present priory. Although in 1099 Flambard was delegated Bishop of Durham, work proceeded under his successors.

A mid-twelfth century account recording the legend of the Christchurch Dragon demonstrates that by 1113 the new church was nearing culmination under Dean Peter de Oglander. By around 1150 there was an essential Norman church comprising of a nave, a focal pinnacle and a quire expanding eastwards from the intersection. It was amid this period that another legend began, that of the wonderful pillar, which is pondered the adjustment for the sake of the town from Twynham to the present day Christchurch.