Studley Priory, Warwickshire

Priory Farm, Studley

Studley Priory, Warwickshire, was a priory in Studley, Warwickshire, England.

The Augustinian priory was founded in the 12th century by Peter Corbizun, afterwards Peter de Studley, who transferred to Studley a priory of Augustinian Canons that he had founded at Witton, Worcestershire.^[1]

When the priory was closed c.1536 at the dissolution under Henry VIII it housed the prior and eight religious brethren. The priory and manor of Studley were granted to Sir Edmund Knightley shortly after the suppression and the buildings used by him as a source of stone for other buildings. ^[2]

Nothing remains today apart from the use of the name priory in a few local building names such as Priory Farm which, now much modernized, embodies a few fragmentary portions of a conventual building and is a Grade II* listed building.^[3] A gabled west wall of stone rubble contains the remains of a large 14th-century window. A few medieval sculptured fragments are built on to the walls.^[4]

References

Monasteries in Warwickshire Augustinian Arbury Priory Atherstone Austin Friary Holywell Cell Kenilworth Abbey Maxstoke Priory Studley Priory Thelsford Priory Warwick St Sepulchre Priory Benedictine Alcester Abbey Alvecote Priory Atherstone Priory Bretford Priory Monks Kirby Priory Nuneaton Priory Oldbury Priory Polesworth Abbey Warmington Priory Wolston Priory Wootton Wawen Priory Wroxall Priory Cistercian Cawston Grange Coombe Abbey Holywell Cell Merevale Abbey Pinley Priory Stoneleigh Abbey Dominican Warwick Blackfriars Knights Hospitaller Grafton Preceptory Warwick Preceptory Knights Templar Warwick Preceptory Trinitarian Thelsford Priory Independent Houses Stratford-on-Avon Monastery

Coordinates: 52°16′26″N 1°53′39″W / 52.2740°N 1.8943°W / 52.2740; -1.8943