Povington Priory
50°37′50″N 2°09′57″W / 50.6305°N 2.1657°W Povington Priory was a Benedictine priory in Tyneham,[1] Dorset, England.
It was established as an alien priory of the Abbey of Bec.[2] This term could mean simply an estate and does not necessarily imply the presence on the property of even a small conventual monastic house.
In England Bec possessed in the 15th century several priories, namely, St Neots, Stoke-by-Clare, Wilsford, Steventon, Cowick, Ogbourne, and at some point also Blakenham Priory. St Neots Priory was particularly large.[3] In Wales Bec also had Goldcliff Priory, in Monmouthshire.
The London suburb of Tooting Bec takes its name from the medieval village's having been a possession of Bec Abbey.
Wool and English ewe's milk cheese produced at Povington were shipped to the Mother House via the docks at Wareham.[4]
Following the dissolution of the alien priories, the lands were granted to St Anthony's Hospital, North Cheam.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ Warburton, J. (1786) "Some Account of the Alien Priories, and of Such Lands as They are Known to Have Possessed in England and Wales", Volumes 1-2, p.26. J. Nichols. Retrieved January 2012
- ^ John Caley, J. et.al (1846) Monasticon Anglicanum: A History of the Abbies and Other Monasteries, Hospitals, Frieries, and Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with Their Dependencies, in England and Wales : Also of All Such Scotch, Irish, and French Monasteries, as Were in Any Manner Connected with Religious Houses in England, Volume 6, Issue 2, p.1046. J. Bohn. Retrieved January 2012
- ^ Marjorie M. Morgan, The Suppression of the Alien Priories, in History NS 26, 103 (1941) 204, 208
- ^ Miller, E. & Thirsk, J. (1991) "The Agrarian History of England and Wales", Volume 3, p.402. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-20074-1 Retrieved January 2012
- ^ Lewis, S. (1833) A topographical dictionary of England: with historical and statistical descriptions, 2nd Edition, p.368. Lewis. Retrieved January 2012
Reading[edit]
- Marjorie Chibnall, The English Lands of the Abbey of Bec, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1946.
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