 After 1071 one monk only remained in Spalding, so the house was refounded in 1074 as a dependent priory of St Nicholas's Abbey, Angers.The monks secured their independence from Angers in 1397, and remained so until 1540, when the house was surrendered at the dissolution.Six human skeletons found during building work in Bridge Street are presumed to indicate the site of the Priory burial ground.