# Tresco Priory > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tresco_Priory > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tresco_Priory.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tresco_Priory > Source revision: 1354555398 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Church in Tresco, England Tresco Priory The Priory of St Nicholas, Tresco Remains of Tresco Priory in Tresco Abbey Gardens Tresco Priory Location in the Isles of Scilly 49°56′50″N 6°19′52″W / 49.94722°N 6.33111°W / 49.94722; -6.33111 Location Tresco Country England History Founded 946 AD Dedication Saint Nicholas Dedicated 1114 AD Architecture Heritage designation Grade II listed Specifications Length 23.5 metres (77 ft) Width 7.5 metres (25 ft) Historic site Listed Building – Grade II Official name Remains of Tresco Priory and associated monuments and attached walls Designated 12 February 1975 Reference no. 1141172 Scheduled monument Official name St Nicholas' Priory, Tresco Designated 25 July 1997 Reference no. 1016184 **Tresco Priory** is a former monastic settlement on [Tresco, Isles of Scilly](/source/Tresco%2C_Isles_of_Scilly)[1] founded in 946 AD. It was re-founded as the [Priory](/source/Priory) of St Nicholas by monks from [Tavistock Abbey](/source/Tavistock_Abbey) in 1114.[2] A charter of [King Henry I](/source/Henry_I_of_England) mentions a priory as belonging to Tavistock Abbey in the reign of [Edward the Confessor](/source/Edward_the_Confessor) Henry I, King of England, A.D. 1120, grants to [William, Bishop of Exeter](/source/William_Warelwast), and to Richard, son of Baldwin, and to his Justitiary of Devonshire and Cornwall in perpetual Alms to Osbert [Abbot of Tavistock](/source/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.[3] This was duly confirmed when [Pope Celestine III](/source/Pope_Celestine_III) by his Bull (dated 4 cal. June A.D. 1193) confirms to 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). 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.[3] The Priory did not survive the [Dissolution of the Monasteries](/source/Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries) and may well have closed earlier. The remains of the priory are now incorporated into [Tresco Abbey Gardens](/source/Tresco_Abbey_Gardens). ## References - [Cornwall portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Cornwall) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Historic England, ["Remains of Tresco Priory and Associated Monuments and Attached Walls (1141172)"](https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1141172?section=official-list-entry), *National Heritage List for England*, retrieved 3 October 2016 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Lane, Charles Arthur (1892). "Descriptive Lantern Lectures on English Church History". *Religion*. p. xvi. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-WMN_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-WMN_3-1) ["Ancient Island Priory. Tresco Ruled from Tavistock"](http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000329/19340929/052/0008). *[Western Morning News](/source/Western_Morning_News)*. British Newspaper Archive. 29 September 1934. 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