Upavon Priory

{{Short description|Monastery in Wiltshire, England}} {{Coord|51.295|N|1.806|W|type:landmark_region:GB-WIL|display=title}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} [[File:St Mary's, Upavon - geograph.org.uk - 396827.jpg|thumb|The former priory church: St Mary's, Upavon, begun in the 13th century]] '''Upavon Priory''' was a small priory in [[Wiltshire]], [[England]].

[[Domesday Book]] in 1086 recorded land at [[Upavon]] held by the [[Benedictines|Benedictine]] monastery of [[Saint-Wandrille]], Normandy.<ref>{{OpenDomesday|SU1355|upavon|Upavon}}</ref> A priory was probably established in the 12th century, and in the 13th the church became a [[prebendary|prebend]] of [[Salisbury Cathedral|Salisbury]]. A valuation in 1324 found livestock, two horses, two beds, three tables and sparse chapel fittings. Around this time the nearby church at [[Charlton, Pewsey Vale|Charlton St Peter]] had been appropriated to the priory.<ref name=vch>{{Cite book |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol3/pp396-397 |title=A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 |chapter=Alien houses: Priory of Upavon |editor1-first=R.B. |editor1-last=Pugh |editor2-first=Elizabeth |editor2-last=Crittall |date=1956 |via=British History Online |location=London |publisher=University of London |access-date=25 August 2020}}</ref>

Monks of alien priories were expelled from England in 1378, and the priory became a farm.<ref>{{cite web|website=Wiltshire Community History|title=Upavon|url=https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/Community/Index/229|publisher=Wiltshire Council|access-date=25 August 2020}}</ref> In 1423 Upavon Priory was granted to the [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] canons of [[Ivychurch Priory]], south-east of Salisbury, who held it until the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries|Dissolution]].<ref name=vch />

There are intermittent records of priors of Upavon between 1262 and 1361.<ref name=vch /> The last remaining building, a barn on a site between the church and the [[River Avon (Hampshire)|River Avon]], was demolished in the early 1820s.<ref>{{cite PastScape |mnumber=220160 |mname=Upavon Priory |access-date=25 August 2020}}</ref>

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[[Category:Monasteries in Wiltshire]]