The Priory Church of St Mary in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire was originally the church of a Benedictine Priory which was established in about 1070. After the Dissolution the building was spared and became the parish church. The church has a cruciform layout and has a large chancel and nave. Indeed, the large size of the church and the effigies and monumental tomb it contains has even led to it being called the Westminster Abbey of Wales!
The church was fully refurbished in the 19th century and little of the original Norman church remains, though the Norman font has survived after it spent a couple of centuries outside of the church in the churchyard.
