More information : (Siting symbol -SU 13595515) Benedictine Priory (LB). (1)
The alien Benedictine Priory at Upavon, probably founded in the 12th c, was seized in the time of Edward III and later, in 1423, granted to the Austin canons of Ivychurch, in whose hands it remained until the Dissolution. (2) A Benedictine cell for one or two monks, founded c 1135, dissolved in 1414. (4)
The owner of the site of the priory in 1825 was Francis Gifford, the last remaining portion of the priory, a barn, having been pulled down a few years before 1825. (3).
The OS Siting symbol is applied to a platform of rough ground 30 m x 50 m, 1.0 m high, composed of black earth, brick, and post-Md pottery fragments; it may represent the site of the pre-1825 priory barn, or made-up ground. The field is known as Priory Mead (5-6)
Some earthworks are visible on aerial photographs taken in 2001. These include what may be the remains of the priory barn described by the previous authority.(7) |