Skendleby Priory was a priory in the village of Skendleby

Skendleby

Skendleby is a small village and civil parish, located near to the A158 and lies about four miles north east of the town of Spilsby in Lincolnshire and 34.8 miles due east of the county town Lincoln....

, Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

, England.

The believed remains of St James Chapel, Skendleby Priory

Skendleby Priory

Skendleby Priory was a priory in the village of Skendleby, Lincolnshire, England.The believed remains of St James Chapel, Skendleby Priory, were uncovered during archaeological investigations and excavations in 2005. It was a small cell to Bardney Abbey built by Walter de Gant, and recorded by Bede...

, were uncovered during archaeological investigations and excavations in 2005. It was a small cell to Bardney Abbey

Bardney Abbey

Bardney Abbey in Lincolnshire, England, was a Benedictine monastery founded in 697 by King Æthelred of Mercia, who was to become the first abbot. The monastery is supposed to have been destroyed during a Danish raid in 869...

 built by Walter de Gant, and recorded by Bede

Bede

Bede , also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede , was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria...

in the seventh century. Bardney Abbey was founded no later than 697, but destroyed by a Danish raid in 869.