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Bushmead Priory, Bedfordshire, England= The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Bushmead, commonly called Bushmead Priory, was a monastic foundation for Augustinian Canons, located at Bushmead (a Hamlet in Staploe parish) in the County of Bedfordshire in England. It is a Grade I listed building.The site and remains of the 700-year-old priory stand today neighbouring a light industrial estate, and disu...
Burford Priory, Oxfordshire, England=Burford Priory is a Grade I listed country house and former priory at Burford in West Oxfordshire, England.>===== Image Chris Moore Flickr under Licence ==History=====Origin===The house is on the site of a 13th-century Augustinian hospital. In the 1580s an Elizabethan house was built by Sir Lawrence Tanfield, incorporating remnants of the Priory Hospital.[2]...
Bisham Abbey & Manor, Berkshire, England=Sir Henry Vansittart Neale,KCB was one time resident of "'Bisham Abbey"'. The nucleus of the house formed the preceptory of the 13th Century Knights Templars. In 1337 the monastic buildings of the house of Austin Canons were founded by William de Montacute Earl of Salisbury but were later demolished before the site and manor were granted to Sir Philip Ho...
Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, England=>>===== Image Right © Copyright Philip Halling and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence. Geograph Woburn Abbey (occupying the east of the village of Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, is a country house, the family seat of the Duke of Bedford. Although it is still a family home to the current duke, it is open on specified days to visitors, along wi...
Bicester Priory, Oxfordshire, England=Although there is no chartulary of the Austin priory of Bicester, yet more than fifty of the original charters are preserved at the British Museum and the Record Office, of which Bishop Kennett has printed the most important. Among them is what appears to be the foundation charter, in which Gilbert Basset grants to John, prior of Bicester, various messuages...
Ince Manor/Grange, Cheshire, England= Ince Manor or Ince Grange i s a former monastic grange in the village of Ince in Cheshire, England. The remains of the manor house, consisting of the old hall, and the monastery cottages are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building,[1] and a scheduled monument[2][3] It is one of only two surviving monastic m...
Milton Manor House, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England=Marjorie Mockler moved back into the house after the Second World War. It had stood empty for many years between the two wars. Between 1939 and 1945 the house had been occupied by the RAF and as a result was in a state of considerable dilapidation. Most of the original furniture had been sold in the 1911 sale including, alas, the beds that Will...