Povington Priory

50°37′50″N 2°09′57″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
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Marjorie M. Morgan, The Suppression of the Alien Priories, in History NS 26, 103 (1941) 204, 208
  4. 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
  5. Lewis, S. (1833) A topographical dictionary of England: with historical and statistical descriptions, 2nd Edition, p.368. Lewis. Retrieved January 2012

Reading
  • Marjorie Chibnall, The English Lands of the Abbey of Bec, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1946.


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