Tandridge Priory was a

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, England.

History

Tandridge Priory was originally a hospital founded in 1189–99 by Odo de Dammartin, and became an Augustinian priory in 1218. It was a small foundation of probably no more than five canons, whose chief duty was to pray for the priory's benefactors. In the ''

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'' of 1535, the clear annual value of the priory was £81 7s. 4d. This was less than a fifth of the larger

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in the north of the county. At that time, the priory held the rectory (church lands, tithes and donations) of Tandridge producing £13 6s. 8d, the rectory of Crowhurst £8 6s, and half the rectory of Godstone (alias Wolkensted) paying £3 11s. 8d. John Lyngfield, the last prior, obtained a pension of £14. The priory was disbanded in 1538 as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, which did away with almost all such institutions.This enabled

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to expropriate their assets.

Successor to main site

There is now a

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17th-century country house on the far north of the site and a horse riding centre on the remainder, with the original priory and three fishponds in the grounds at the rear.

References

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