This article is about the priory in Dorset. For the priory near Folkestone in Kent, see
Monks Horton .
Horton Priory was a
priory at
Horton in
Dorset ,
England .
It was founded as a Benedictine abbey around 970 by
Ordgar, Earl of Devon ,
[1] or his son, Ordulph, and dedicated to
Saint Olfrida, Wilfrida or Wulfthryth , the mother of Saint
Edith of Wilton by King
Edgar the Peaceful . In the early twelfth century it was reduced to priory status by
Roger, bishop of Salisbury and made dependent on
Sherborne Abbey .
[2]
At the Dissolution in 1539 Sherborne Abbey was surrendered to the king, and in 1547 it was granted to
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset . On Somerset's attainder it was granted to
William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke .
[2] The present Horton parish church, St. Wolfrida, was built on the site of the priory in the 18th century. No traces of the original priory remain.
[1]
Known Priors
* Hugh, occurs 1286
[3]
* John de Bradeford, occurs 1348.
[4]
* John Cosyn, occurs 1401.
[5]
* Henry Trew, occurs 1459–60
[6]
* John Dorchester, occurs 1504
[6]
* John Hart or Herte alias Raynold, occurs on its surrender, 1539.
[2]
[7]
References
^
a
b
Monasticon Anglicanum...a History of the Abbies and Other Monasteries...and Cathedral and Collegiate Churches...in England and Wales . Bohn. 1846. p.
511 .
^
a
b
c Page, William (1908).
"Houses of Benedictine monks: The priories of Cranbourne and Horton" . A History of the County of Dorset: Volume 2 . London: Accessed via British History Online. pp. 70–73. Retrieved 26 August 2016 .
^ Pat. 14
Edw. I , m. 18, 19.
^ 22 Edw. III, pt. 1, m. 43 d.
^ Cal. Pap. Letters, v, 362.
^
a
b Dugdale, Mon. ii, 511.
^
P.R.O. Deeds of Surrender, No. 40; L. and P. Hen. VIII, xiv (i), 556.
50°52′00″N 1°57′31″W / 50.866545°N 1.958522°W / 50.866545; -1.958522 (Horton Priory )