Tandridge Priory

Tandridge Priory
Monastery information
OrderAugustinians
Established1189-99 (as hospital)
refounded as priory: 1218
Disestablished1538
Site
LocationTandridge,
Surrey, England
Coordinates51°15′15″N 0°01′36″E / 51.2541°N 0.02674°E / 51.2541; 0.02674

Tandridge Priory was a priory in Surrey, England.

History

Tandridge Priory was originally a hospital founded in 1189–99 by Odo de Dammartin, and became an Augustinian priory in 1218.[1]

It was a small foundation of probably no more than five canons, whose chief duty was to pray for the priory's benefactors.[2] In the Valor Ecclesiasticus of 1535, the clear annual value of the priory was £81 7s. 4d. This was less than a fifth of the larger Sheen Priory in the north of the county.[1] At that time, the priory held the rectory (church lands, tithes and donations) of Tandridge producing £13 6s. 8d,[1] the rectory of Crowhurst £8 6s,[1] and half the rectory of Godstone (alias Wolkensted) paying £3 11s. 8d.[1] John Lyngfield, the last prior, obtained a pension of £14.[1]

The priory was disbanded in 1538 as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, which did away with almost all such institutions.This enabled Henry VIII to expropriate their assets.[1]

Successor to main site

There is now a Grade II listed 17th-century country house on the far north of the site and a horse riding centre on the remainder,[3] with the original priory and three fishponds in the grounds at the rear.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "'Houses of Austin canons: Priory of Tandridge', in A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 2, ed. H E Malden (London, 1967), pp. 112–113".
  2. ^ Heales, Alfred (1885). The History of Tandridge Priory. p. 3.
  3. ^ "Tandridge Priory, Tandridge". British Listed Buildings.
  4. ^ "Surrey's monastic retreat for sale". Country Life.