{{Short description|Monastery in Dorset, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{coord|50.6305|-2.1657|format=dms|display=title}} '''Povington Priory''' was a Benedictine priory in Tyneham,<ref name="Warburton"/> Dorset, England.
It was established as an alien priory of the Abbey of Bec.<ref name="Caley"/> This term could mean simply an estate and does not necessarily imply the presence on the property of even a small conventual monastic house.
In England, in the 15th century Bec possessed several priories, namely St Neots, Stoke-by-Clare, Wilsford, Steventon, Cowick, Ogbourne, and at some point also Blakenham Priory. St Neots Priory was particularly large.<ref>Marjorie M. Morgan, ''The Suppression of the Alien Priories'', in ''History'' NS 26, 103 (1941) 204, 208</ref> In Wales Bec also had Goldcliff Priory, in Monmouthshire.
The London suburb of Tooting Bec takes its name from the medieval villages, having been a possession of Bec Abbey.
Wool and English ewe's milk cheese produced at Povington were shipped to the Mother House via the docks at Wareham.<ref name="Miller"/>
Following the dissolution of the alien priories, the lands were granted to St Anthony's Hospital, North Cheam.<ref name="Lewis"/>
==References== {{Reflist|2| refs= <ref name="Caley">John Caley, J. et.al (1846) ''Monasticon Anglicanum: A History of the Abbies and Other Monasteries, Hospitals, Frieries, and Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with Their Dependencies, in England and Wales : Also of All Such Scotch, Irish, and French Monasteries, as Were in Any Manner Connected with Religious Houses in England'', Volume 6, Issue 2, [https://books.google.com/books?id=a10RAQAAMAAJ&dq=Povington%20Priory&pg=PA1046 p.1046.] J. Bohn. Retrieved January 2012</ref>
<ref name="Miller">Miller, E. & Thirsk, J. (1991) "The Agrarian History of England and Wales", Volume 3, [https://books.google.com/books?id=qQ93gEFS9PcC&lpg=PA402&dq=Povington%20Priory&pg=PA402 p.402.] Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|0-521-20074-1}} Retrieved January 2012</ref>
<ref name="Warburton">Warburton, J. (1786) "Some Account of the Alien Priories, and of Such Lands as They are Known to Have Possessed in England and Wales", Volumes 1-2, [https://books.google.com/books?id=nGEAAAAAMAAJ&dq=Povington%20Priory&pg=PA26 p.26.] J. Nichols. Retrieved January 2012</ref>
<ref name="Lewis">Lewis, S. (1833) ''A topographical dictionary of England: with historical and statistical descriptions'', 2nd Edition, [https://books.google.com/books?id=cbg9QiEF7IMC&dq=Povington%20Priory&pg=PT368 p.368.] Lewis. Retrieved January 2012</ref>
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==Reading==
* Marjorie Chibnall, ''The English Lands of the Abbey of Bec'', Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1946.
Category:Monasteries in Dorset Category:Alien priories in England
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