More information : A Benedictine grange at Lessingham founded circa 1090 and dissolved before 1230. It may have had a prior as bailiff. (1)
"... was in the patronage of the priory of Okeburn (Ogbourne, Wilts), as a cell to the abbey of Bec.....". (2)
A priory subject to the cell at Okeburn granted to Thomas Erpingham after its dissolution, and subsequently to King's College, Cambridge in 1444. The present parish church of All Saints (TG 39202851) is supposed to have been partly conventual, and the house stood nearby probably at the south east corner of the churchyard, where the wall appears to be of much older material. (3)
No monastic remains could be identified here. The churchyard wall although partly overgrown seems to be all of one date. (4) |