Leominster Priory was home to a Benedictine community from Norman times until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, and attached to the monastery at Reading by Henry I. But the site is older, being founded by Merewalh around 660 and becoming a nunnery in the 9th Century. In the 12th Century a nave was added and the south aisle is also a later addition. The Norman arcades are huge and impressive and there is some beautiful tracery in the windows.