The Young Monk

Find out about the life of our young monk and the scandalous goings on at St Mary’s…

As a priory full of monks, you would think St Mary’s was a model of good behaviour, wouldn’t you? Well actually, that wasn’t always the case. In the early 1300s, the monks’ behaviour was so bad that the Bishop of Hereford had to visit and sort things out. He appointed a strict new Prior to run St Mary’s, and as one young monk found out, he wasn’t putting up with any nonsense from his monks.