# Upavon Priory

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Monastery in Wiltshire, England

[51°17′42″N 1°48′22″W / 51.295°N 1.806°W / 51.295; -1.806](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Upavon_Priory&params=51.295_N_1.806_W_type:landmark_region:GB-WIL)

The former priory church: St Mary's, Upavon, begun in the 13th century

**Upavon Priory** was a small priory in [Wiltshire](/source/Wiltshire), [England](/source/England).

[Domesday Book](/source/Domesday_Book) in 1086 recorded land at [Upavon](/source/Upavon) held by the [Benedictine](/source/Benedictines) monastery of [Saint-Wandrille](/source/Saint-Wandrille), Normandy.[1] A priory was probably established in the 12th century, and in the 13th the church became a [prebend](/source/Prebendary) of [Salisbury](/source/Salisbury_Cathedral). A valuation in 1324 found livestock, two horses, two beds, three tables and sparse chapel fittings. Around this time the nearby church at [Charlton St Peter](/source/Charlton%2C_Pewsey_Vale) had been appropriated to the priory.[2]

Monks of alien priories were expelled from England in 1378, and the priory became a farm.[3] In 1423 Upavon Priory was granted to the [Augustinian](/source/Augustinians) canons of [Ivychurch Priory](/source/Ivychurch_Priory), south-east of Salisbury, who held it until the [Dissolution](/source/Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries).[2]

There are intermittent records of priors of Upavon between 1262 and 1361.[2] The last remaining building, a barn on a site between the church and the [River Avon](/source/River_Avon_(Hampshire)), was demolished in the early 1820s.[4]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Upavon](https://opendomesday.org/place/SU1355/upavon/) in the *[Domesday Book](/source/Domesday_Book)*

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-vch_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-vch_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-vch_2-2) Pugh, R.B.; Crittall, Elizabeth, eds. (1956). "Alien houses: Priory of Upavon". [*A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3*](https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol3/pp396-397). London: University of London. Retrieved 25 August 2020 – via British History Online.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Upavon"](https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/Community/Index/229). *Wiltshire Community History*. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 25 August 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Historic England](/source/Historic_England). ["Upavon Priory (220160)"](https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=220160&resourceID=19191). *Research records (formerly PastScape)*. Retrieved 25 August 2020.

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