Combwell Priory

Combwell Priory, 1809

Combwell Priory was a priory near Bedgebury Cross about 10 miles southeast of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England.

History

[edit]

This is a Grade II listed building.[1] It was founded as a Premonstratensian abbey by Robert de Thurnham in the reign of Henry II but became an Augustinian priory in 1220.[1] It was suppressed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries and on 20 November 1537 was granted to Thomas Culpeper,[1][2] becoming the mansion house of branches of the Culpepper and later Campion families. After 1657 little remained of either the abbey or the later house.[1] Nothing of the original building remains standing although the current private home was built using some of the original building materials.[1]

Priors of Combwell

[edit]
  • Richard Netter (1424) [3]
  • Henry (1460).[4]

Burials

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c d e Historic England. "Combwell Priory and walled garden (1087085)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  2. ^ A History of the County of Kent: Volume 2 and Victoria County History. London: British History Online. 1926. pp. 160–161. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  3. ^ [Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; margination: Sussex, with John Darell as plaintiff; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no654/bCP40no654dorses/IMG_1372.htm ]
  4. ^ "CP40/799; 1460; Plea rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; margination: Kent, the prior as defendant". National Archives.

Further reading

[edit]
[edit]

Media related to Combwell Priory at Wikimedia Commons

51°4′26″N 0°26′1″E / 51.07389°N 0.43361°E / 51.07389; 0.43361