Wareham Priory

{{Short description|Monastery in Dorset, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} [[File:Wareham Priory Hotel - geograph.org.uk - 860675.jpg|thumb|Priory House]] '''Wareham Priory''' was a [[monastery]] in [[Wareham, Dorset|Wareham]], [[Dorset]], England.

A nunnery was founded on the site by the [[Saxons]], possibly in 672, and dispersed during the [[Danes (Germanic tribe)|Danish]] raids on Wareham in 876. It was refounded in 915 by [[Ælfflæd, wife of Edward the Elder|Elfleda]] and probably dissolved in 998.<ref name="hg">[https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=456709&resourceID=19191 Heritage Gateway: Historic England Research Records - Wareham Priory]</ref><ref name="VCH">"Alien houses: The priory of Wareham", in ''A History of the County of Dorset: Volume 2'', ed. William Page (London, 1908), pp. 121–122 ([http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/dorset/vol2/pp121-122 British History Online [accessed 16 July 2023])</ref>

A [[Benedictine]] priory, a dependency of [[Lyre Abbey]] in [[Normandy]], was founded in the early 12th century on the same site. It was suppressed in 1414 as an [[alien priory]], and along with most of the other former possessions of Lyre Abbey was granted by [[Henry V of England|Henry V]] to the [[Carthusians]] of [[Sheen Priory]] which he had founded. This house was [[Dissolution of the Monasteries|seized by the Crown]] in 1539.<ref name="hg" /><ref name="VCH" />

The site is now occupied by the Priory House, dating mostly from the early 16th century, with a few possibly earlier remains,<ref>[https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=fad1298c-7e37-4397-9161-7e15dfb5ef07&resourceID=19191 Heritage Gateway: Historic England Research Records - Priory of St Mary House]</ref> and operating since the late 1970s as The Priory Hotel.<ref>[https://theprioryhotel.co.uk/about/ The Priory, Wareham]</ref>

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