Alien Priory of Stogursey - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Alien Priory of Stogursey - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Stogursey Priory, also called Stoke Courcy Priory or The Priory of St Andrew de Stoke, was a Benedictine alien priory dedicated to St Andrew at Stogursey in Somerset, England.C. Gathercole, An Archaeological Assessment of Stogursey, Somerset Urban Archaeology Surveys (English Heritage Extensive Urban Surveys/Somerset County Council 2003), with link to full report (SW South-West Heritage Trust). It was founded by William de Falaise, around 1100, to become a cell of Lonlay-l'Abbaye in Normandy.The claim for Hugh de Neville as founder, expressed in the late narrative printed by W. Dugdale, ed. J. Caley, H. Ellis and B. Bandinel, Monasticon Anglicanum Vol. 6 Part 2 (James Bohn, London 1846), pp. 1012-1013 (Google), and repeated in his Baronage, is dismissed by Bishop Tanner.T. Tanner, 'Stoke Curcy, corruptly Stoke Gursey', in Notitia Monastica: or, An Account of all the Abbies, Priories and Houses of Friers &c., (John Tanner, London 1744), pp. 468-69, note (h) (Google). In around 1185 John de Courcy, its hereditary patron, founded the Priory of the Ards (Blackabbey) in County Down, Ireland, making an endowment of that estate to Stogursey Priory.T.D. Tremlett and N. Blakiston (eds), Stogursey Charters. Charters and other Documents relating to the property of the Alien Priory of Stogursey, Somerset, Somerset Record Society LXI (1949), pp. 50-51. The priory church survives as the parish church, and contains some of the original Norman architecture.'Alien house: The priory of Stogursey', in W. Page (ed.), A History of the County of Somerset, Vol. 2 (London, 1911), pp. 169-71 (British History Online). Many of the priory's muniments are held in the archives of Eton College, which King Henry VI endowed with the appurtenances when the house was dissolved in about 1440.T.D. Tremlett and N. Blakiston (eds), Stogursey Charters. Charters and other Documents relating to the Property of the Alien Priory of Stogursey, Somerset, Somerset Record Society LXI (1949). Read more on Wikipedia
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