{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=November 2025}} {{Infobox church | name = Tresco Priory | full_name = The Priory of St Nicholas, Tresco | other_name = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = Remains of Tresco Abbey in Tresco Abbey Gardens - geograph.org.uk - 1766185.jpg | image_size = | imagelink = | alt = | landscape = | caption = Remains of Tresco Priory in Tresco Abbey Gardens
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| archbishop = | bishop = | abbot = | rector = | vicar = | dean = | succentor = | priest = | pastor = | embedded = {{Infobox historic site | embed = yes | locmapin = | designation1 = Grade II | designation1_offname = Remains of Tresco Priory and associated monuments and attached walls | designation1_date = 12 February 1975 | designation1_number = {{listed building England|1141172}} | designation2 = Scheduled monument | designation2_offname = St Nicholas' Priory, Tresco | designation2_date = 25 July 1997 | designation2_number = {{listed building England|1016184}} }} }} '''Tresco Priory''' is a former monastic settlement on [[Tresco, Isles of Scilly]]<ref>{{NHLE |num= 1141172 |desc=Remains of Tresco Priory and Associated Monuments and Attached Walls |access-date= 3 October 2016|mode=cs2|fewer-links=yes}}</ref> founded in 946 AD.
It was re-founded as the [[Priory]] of St Nicholas by monks from [[Tavistock Abbey]] in 1114.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lane |first=Charles Arthur |chapter=Descriptive Lantern Lectures on English Church History |title=Religion |year=1892 |page=xvi}}</ref> A charter of [[Henry I of England|King Henry I]] mentions a priory as belonging to Tavistock Abbey in the reign of [[Edward the Confessor]]<blockquote>Henry I, King of England, A.D. 1120, grants to [[William Warelwast|William, Bishop of Exeter]], and to Richard, son of Baldwin, and to his Justitiary of Devonshire and Cornwall in perpetual Alms to Osbert [[Abbot of Tavistock]] and Turold his monk, all the churches of Sully with the Appurtenances and the Land such as the Monks or Hermits held in the Time of King Edward and Burgal Bishop of Cornwall.<ref name="WMN">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Ancient Island Priory. Tresco Ruled from Tavistock |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000329/19340929/052/0008 |newspaper=[[Western Morning News]] |location=British Newspaper Archive |date=29 September 1934 |access-date=3 October 2016 |via = British Newspaper Archive }}</ref></blockquote>
This was duly confirmed when [[Pope Celestine III]] by his Bull (dated 4 cal. June A.D. 1193) confirms to <blockquote>Herbert Abbat of Tavistock and his successors the Islands of St Nicholas (Tresco), St. Sampson, St Elidius (St. Helens), St. Theona (Tean) and the Island called Nutho (possibly Nut Rock and land surrounding, where remains of hedges etc. between it and Sampson are still to be seen underwater) with their Appurtenances and all Churches and Oratories built throughout the Islands of Sully, with the Tenths and Offerings, etc., and two pieces of digg’d ground in the Island of Agnes, and three pieces in the Isle of Ennor (St. Mary’s).</blockquote>
In 1367 King Edward III took the Priory under his special protection as the monks had complained that it was almost destroyed and impoverished by mariners, and in 1351 pirates had destroyed most of the Abbey property.<ref name="WMN"/>
The Priory did not survive the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]] and may well have closed earlier. The remains of the priory are now incorporated into [[Tresco Abbey Gardens]].
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