Lancaster Priory Church: Tower

The tower was not as high in Fox’s time, but the door (inside the porch), to which a ‘Scurrilous Paper’ was affixed in January 1653, ¹, is the same. The Benedictine Priory Church became the parish church of Lancaster (official website) at the Dissolution. The interior is mainly Perpendicular: an impressive and challenging statement of the Established Church. The incumbent was William Marshall MD, a York boy made good. After his dispossession at the Restoration he went to London and continued to practise medicine.

1.   Francis Higginson A brief description of the irreligion of the Northen Quakers (London: TR, 1653) 32-33.