Snelshall Priory

Snelshall Priory

Snelshall Priory was a Benedictine priory in Milton Keynes, the United Kingdom, built around 1200.The priory was started after Sybil d'Aungerville granted land at Tattenhoe to Lavendon Abbey, who most likely started a cell at Snelshall.cite book| title=History of Milton Keynes and District (Volume 1)|first=Sir Frank |last=Markham |year=1986 |origyear=1973 |isbn=0900804297 |accessdate=2007-05-30 |pages=pp. 104–105 |publisher=White Crescent Press] Snelshall Priory paid 1 mark a year to Lavendon until 1232, at which point the Bishop of Lincoln decided that Snelshall owned its own lands and chapel. The priory accumulated various land through gifts, but even with all these grants, in 1321 when Henry Burghersh visited, it was so poor that "the monks scarcely had the necessities of life and had to beg even for these".

Yet the priory remained until the mid-sixteenth century. In 1529, Bishop Longford found "irregularities" among the two or three monks that remained, and as a result all women, married and unmarried, were barred from priory. Only two women, both over 48 years old and of "unexceptional character", were retained as servants. In 1535, there remained three monks, two priests (of which one was a novice), the prior's parents with "all their goods" and eight servants. The house was in ruin, and later that year the priory dissolved and house turned over to The Crown.

The house was possibly rebuilt around 1540, possibly by Sir John Fortescue. Much of the priory's land went to the Longueville family.cite book| title=History of Milton Keynes and District (Volume 1)|first=Sir Frank |last=Markham |year=1986 |origyear=1973 |isbn=0900804297 |accessdate=2007-05-30 |pages=p. 146 |publisher=White Crescent Press] It is not known when the house was demolished.

The stones were recycled to build the nearby St. Giles' Church, Tattenhoe.

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