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GB 2703 001064

The Benedictine Priory of St Mary and St Radegund at Grenecroft, Cambridge, was founded before 1144 (probably in the late 1130s) and dissolved by the initiative of John Alcock, Bishop of Ely, in 1496. The nunnery had close connections with the see of Ely, especially in its early days.