Hoxne Priory

{{Short description|Benedictine priory in Suffolk, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} '''Hoxne Priory''' was a [[Benedictine]] priory at [[Hoxne]] in [[Suffolk]], England.

It was founded as a religious house around the year 950, with a chapel at the [[Haegelisdun|supposed site]] of the martyrdom of [[Edmund the Martyr|Saint Edmund]], king of East Anglia. The chapel was given in 1101 to [[Norwich Cathedral]] by [[Herbert de Losinga]], and the priory became dependent on the cathedral. It was rebuilt by 1130 by Maurice of Windsor and his wife Edigia, being completed in 1226.<ref name = Midmer>Roy Midmer, ''English Medieval Monasteries 1066–1540'' (1979) p. 171.</ref>

At the time of the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]], [[William Castleton]], who would be the first [[Dean of Norwich]], disposed of the priory's property around 1538 to [[Sir Richard Gresham]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=37884|title=Houses of Benedictine monks: Priory of Hoxne | British History Online}}</ref> The site of the priory is now occupied by the Abbey Farmhouse.<ref name = Midmer/>

[[File:Farmhouse at Abbey Farm - geograph.org.uk - 349248.jpg|thumb|Farmhouse at the Abbey Farm, Hoxne, approximate site of Hoxne Priory.]]

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[[Category:Monasteries in Suffolk]] [[Category:1130 establishments in England]] [[Category:1538 disestablishments in England]] [[Category:Hoxne]]