{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox monastery | name =Barlynch Priory | image = | caption = | full = | other_names =St Nicholas's Priory | order =Augustinian | established =Between 1154 and 1189 | disestablished =1539 | mother = | diocese = | churches = | founder =William de Say | dedication = | people = | location =Brompton Regis, Somerset, England | coord = {{coord|51.0502|N|3.52937|W|region:GB-SOM_type:landmark|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | oscoor = {{gbmapping|SS928289}} | remains = Walling at Barlynch Farm | public_access = }} '''Barlynch Priory''' (also known as St Nicholas's Priory and sometimes spelled '''Barlinch Priory''') in Brompton Regis, Somerset, England was an Augustinian priory founded by William de Say between 1154 and 1189 and dissolved in 1537.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=36537 |title=Barlynch Priory |work=Pastscape |publisher=English Heritage |access-date=1 November 2016 }}</ref>
In the late 15th century the prior was John Chester,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Page |first1=William |title=Houses of Augustinian canons: The priory of Barlynch |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol2/pp132-134|website=British History Online|publisher=Victoria County History|access-date=13 October 2015}}</ref> one of the sons of Alice Chestre who made donations to the church.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Manco|first1=Jean|title=The House that Alice Built|url=https://www.buildinghistory.org/bristol/aliceshouse.shtml|publisher=Bristol Past|access-date=13 October 2015}}</ref> In 1524 the priory was at its largest with nine canons.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40931 |title=The priory of Barlynch|work=Houses of Augustinian Canons, in A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 (1911), pp. 132–134.|publisher=British History Online|access-date=12 July 2009}}</ref>
The only visible remains are some fragments of walling attached to Barlynch farmhouse, which have been designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 182).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1237516 |title=Barlinch Farmhouse |work=historicengland.org.uk |publisher=English Heritage |access-date=12 July 2009 }}</ref> It has been added to the Heritage at Risk Register because of the risk of collapse.<ref>{{cite web|title=Barlinch Priory, Brompton Regis, West Somerset – Exmoor (NP) |url=http://risk.english-heritage.org.uk/register.aspx?id=42043 |work=Heritage at Risk |publisher=English Heritage |access-date=20 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022202631/http://risk.english-heritage.org.uk/register.aspx?id=42043 |archive-date=22 October 2013 }}</ref>
Some of the stained glass from a Jesse window at the Priory is now in the St Peter's Church in Huish Champflower.<ref name="completesomerset">{{cite book |last=Bush |first=Robin |author-link=Robin Bush (historian) |title=Somerset: The complete guide |year=1994 |publisher=Dovecote Press |location=Wimborne, Dorset |isbn=1-874336-27-X |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/somersetcomplete0000bush }}</ref>
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Category:Augustinian monasteries in England Category:Monasteries in Somerset Category:Christian monasteries established in the 1100s Category:Scheduled monuments in West Somerset Category:12th-century establishments in England Category:1539 disestablishments in England Category:Structures on the Heritage at Risk register in Somerset