{{Short description|Augustine religious house in Suffolk, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[File:Plaque at site of Chipley Priory.jpg|thumb|A plaque listing occupants, burials and priors of Chipley Priory]] '''Chipley Priory''' was a small Augustine religious house, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, located about {{convert|1|mi|km|0}} north-west of the village of Poslingford in the English county of Suffolk.<ref name="pagew">Page.W (1975) 'Houses of Austin canons: Priory of Chipley', ''A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2'', p. 99 ([http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=37898 available online]). Retrieved 2011-05-03.</ref><ref name="suffchurches">[http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/chipley.htm St something, Chipley], Suffolk Churches. Retrieved 2011-05-03.</ref> The date of its foundation is unknown and the first references to it occur in 1235.<ref name="pagew" /><ref name="engh">{{PastScape|mnumber=379224 |mname=Chipley Priory |accessdate= 2011-05-03}}</ref> The priory never became a major house – a taxation roll from 1291 shows its income at less than £5 per annum – and by 1455 the buildings were ruins.<ref name="pagew" /> By 1468 the Bishop of Norwich allowed the lands to be annexed by the College at Stoke-next-Clare.<ref name="pagew" /><ref name="engh" />

The site is occupied by a 17th-century farmhouse which incorporates some medieval building material believed to come from the priory buildings.<ref name="engh" /><ref name="list">[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-425259-chipley-abbey-poslingford Chipley Abbey, Poslingford], British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2011-05-03.</ref> The priory church is believed to have been destroyed in 1818 and human remains and other artifacts have been recovered from the site, with a stone coffin and bell kept at Poslingford Church.<ref name="engh" />

A plaque erected on the site in 1990 by the Clopton Family Association, lists information about the occupants, burials and priors of the priory.

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