High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Priory Church of St Mary and St Hardulph at Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire, England is dedicated to St Mary and St Hardulf. Perched on the summit of Breedon Hill, the church has also been known as Breedon Priory and as the Holy Hill Monastery. Originally founded as a monastery in the 7th century, the church contains the largest collection, and some of the finest examples, of Saxon sculptures in Great Britain. It also contains a fine family pew and impressive Renaissance-era church monuments to the Shirley family, which bought the building in 1539 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The largest of these monuments is for Sir George Shirley. It was made over 20 years before his death and includes a life-sized skeleton carved in alabaster. The hill on which the church sits overlooks a village of 400 houses. Presently the church sits close to an active quarry.

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