Ulverscroft Priory is a former hermitage and priory in Ulverscroft, Leicestershire. ==History== The priory was founded by Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, in 1134, as a hermitage for eremites of the Order of St Augustine. Before 1174, following a papal order, it became an Augustinian priory. The priory gained the advowson of the church a...