Bromfield Priory

{{Short description|Monastery in Shropshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} '''Bromfield Priory''' was a priory in [[Shropshire]], [[England]], located at [[Bromfield, Shropshire|Bromfield]] near [[Ludlow]].

It was a college of [[Canon (priest)#Secular canons|secular canons]], founded before 1061. The [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 records a remarkable amount of detail about the priory and its history.<ref>[http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO4876/bromfield Open Domesday] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112035928/http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO4876/bromfield/ |date=2013-11-12 }} Bromfield</ref> The priory held 20 [[hide (unit)|hides]] of land in 1066 and 10 hides by 1086, including land at [[Halford, Shropshire|Halford]], [[Dinchope]], [[Ashford Bowdler]], [[Felton, Shropshire|Felton]], [[Burway]], and [[Ledwyche]], as well as the hamlets of [[Prior’s Halton]], [[Lady Halton]] and [[Hill Halton]].

In 1086 there were 12 canons. St Giles in [[Ludford, Shropshire|Ludford]] was a chapel of the priory.

From 1258, the Priory was under the control of [[Gloucester Abbey]]: one of the priors of Bromfield, Henry Foliot, subsequently became Abbot of Gloucester.

In 1538, as part of the [[dissolution of the monasteries]], the priory was closed; the priory house was acquired in 1541 by Charles Foxe. It remained the Foxe family home until it was destroyed by fire in the 17th century. <ref>{{cite web |title=Houses of Benedictine monks: Priory of Bromfield |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/salop/vol2/pp27-29#fnn32 |website=British History Online}}</ref>

The priory church survives as [[St Mary the Virgin's Church, Bromfield|Bromfield's parish church]].

==See also== *[[St Mary the Virgin's Church, Bromfield]]

==References== {{Reflist}} *[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=39919 British history online]

[[Category:Monasteries in Shropshire]]