Norton PROIRY

Introduction
For nearly 1000 years monasteries dominated the landscape of England and the lives of countless English people.

Norton Priory is situated today at the end of Tudor Road which runs through Manor Park. In 1115 the Baron of Halton, William Fitz Nigel, founded a community of Augustinian monks in Runcorn, Cheshire. Nineteen years later they moved to a site at Norton. This was Norton Priory. In 1236 a fire broke out and destroyed part of the church and cloister which meant rebuilding.

Features of Norton Priory

The church was both typical and not typical because the church has got a cruciform, its pointing east and extension to cruciform which are typical. However it’s not symmetrical due to the addition of the Dutton chapel.

The square cloister was both typical and not typical, this was because the south of the church was typical. There were four separate walkways called by four points North, South, East and West. Symmetry to church. Not typical because of exten...