# Snelshall Priory > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Snelshall_Priory > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Snelshall_Priory.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snelshall_Priory > Source revision: 1338824361 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Ruined Benedictine priory in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire Site of Snelshall Priory. **Snelshall Priory** was a [Benedictine](/source/Benedictine) [priory](/source/Priory) in [Milton Keynes](/source/Milton_Keynes), [Buckinghamshire](/source/Buckinghamshire) in the [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom), built around 1200. The priory was founded after Sybil d'Aungerville granted land at [Tattenhoe](/source/Tattenhoe) to [Lavendon Abbey](/source/Lavendon_Abbey), a [Premonstratensian](/source/Premonstratensian) monastery of 'White canons' who most likely started a cell at Snelshall. This did not thrive and was abandoned about 1207.[1] About 1219, the founder's son brought in [Benedictine](/source/Benedictine) monks, increased the endowment and the new monastery began again.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] However Snelshall Priory paid 1 mark a year to Lavendon until 1232, at which point the [Bishop of Lincoln](/source/Bishop_of_Lincoln) decided that Snelshall owned its own lands and chapel.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] The priory accumulated various land through gifts, but even with all these grants, in 1321 when [Henry Burghersh](/source/Henry_Burghersh) visited, it was so poor that "the monks scarcely had the necessities of life and had to beg even for these". Yet the priory remained until the mid-sixteenth century. In 1529, Bishop Longford found "irregularities"[1] among the two or three [monks](/source/Monk) that remained, and as a result all women, married and unmarried, were barred from the precinct of the priory. Only two women, both over 48 years old and of "unexceptional character", were retained as servants. In 1535, there remained three monks, two [priests](/source/Priest) (of which one was a novice), the prior's parents with "all their goods" and eight servants. The house was in ruin, and later that year the [priory was suppressed](/source/Suppression_of_Religious_Houses_Act_1535) and turned over to [The Crown](/source/The_Crown).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] The house was possibly rebuilt around 1540, possibly by Sir John Fortescue.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] Much of the priory's land went to the Longueville family.[2] It is not known when the house was demolished. The stones were recycled to build the nearby [St Giles's Church, Tattenhoe](/source/St_Giles's_Church%2C_Tattenhoe).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] ## See also - [Bradwell Abbey](/source/Bradwell_Abbey) ## External links - [Houses of Benedictine monks: The priory of Snelshall', A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 1 (1905), pp. 352-353.](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40305) ([Victoria History of the Counties of England](/source/Victoria_History_of_the_Counties_of_England)). ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-markham1_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-markham1_1-1) Markham, Sir Frank (1986) [1973]. *History of Milton Keynes and District (Volume 1)*. White Crescent Press. pp. 104–105. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-900804-29-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-900804-29-7). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-markham2_2-0)** Markham, Sir Frank (1986) [1973]. *History of Milton Keynes and District (Volume 1)*. White Crescent Press. p. 146. 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