# Wareham Priory

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Monastery in Dorset, England

Priory House

**Wareham Priory** was a [monastery](/source/Monastery) in [Wareham](/source/Wareham%2C_Dorset), [Dorset](/source/Dorset), England.

A nunnery was founded on the site by the [Saxons](/source/Saxons), possibly in 672, and dispersed during the [Danish](/source/Danes_(Germanic_tribe)) raids on Wareham in 876. It was refounded in 915 by [Elfleda](/source/%C3%86lffl%C3%A6d%2C_wife_of_Edward_the_Elder) and probably dissolved in 998.[1][2]

A [Benedictine](/source/Benedictine) priory, a dependency of [Lyre Abbey](/source/Lyre_Abbey) in [Normandy](/source/Normandy), was founded in the early 12th century on the same site. It was suppressed in 1414 as an [alien priory](/source/Alien_priory), and along with most of the other former possessions of Lyre Abbey was granted by [Henry V](/source/Henry_V_of_England) to the [Carthusians](/source/Carthusians) of [Sheen Priory](/source/Sheen_Priory) which he had founded. This house was [seized by the Crown](/source/Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries) in 1539.[1][2]

The site is now occupied by the Priory House, dating mostly from the early 16th century, with a few possibly earlier remains,[3] and operating since the late 1970s as The Priory Hotel.[4]

## References

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1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-hg_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-hg_1-1) [Heritage Gateway: Historic England Research Records - Wareham Priory](https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=456709&resourceID=19191)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-VCH_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-VCH_2-1) "Alien houses: The priory of Wareham", in *A History of the County of Dorset: Volume 2*, ed. William Page (London, 1908), pp. 121–122 ([British History Online \[accessed 16 July 2023](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/dorset/vol2/pp121-122))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Heritage Gateway: Historic England Research Records - Priory of St Mary House](https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=fad1298c-7e37-4397-9161-7e15dfb5ef07&resourceID=19191)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [The Priory, Wareham](https://theprioryhotel.co.uk/about/)

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