Andwell Priory is an

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Andwell Andwell is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Mapledurwell and Up Nately, in the Basingstoke and Deane district of Hampshire, England. Its former range was divided by the M3 motorway; it is also bounded to the north by the ...

Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Berkshire to the north, Surrey and West Sussex to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south, ...

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. This small priory was founded as a

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of the great

abbey of Tiron in the twelfth century by Adam de Port of nearby

Mapledurwell Mapledurwell is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Mapledurwell and Up Nately, in the Basingstoke and Deane district, in the county of Hampshire, England. It is located south east of Basingstoke. In 1931 the parish had a po ...

. The grant of lands in

Up Nately Up Nately is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish oMapledurwell and Up Nately in the Basingstoke and Deane district, in Hampshire, England, located five miles to the south east of Basingstoke. Its nearest railway station, ...

and other rents were confirmed by a

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of King

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William of Wykeham William of Wykeham (; 1320 or 1324 – 27 September 1404) was Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England. He founded New College, Oxford, and New College School in 1379, and founded Winchester College in 1382. He was also the clerk of ...

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, purchased Andwell from the abbey of Tiron in the later part of the reign of

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and bestowed it and its lands on his newly founded college at Winchester, to which it still belongs. The premises were very small and not much remains. The north, west and east

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walls of the

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survive, as do two modest 14th century doorways that were part of the west range.

References

External links

''A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 2'', The Victoria County History 1973
* ''The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight'', Nikolaus Pevsner and David Lloyd {{Benedictine houses of England and Wales, state=collapsed Benedictine monasteries in England Priories in Hampshire Alien priories in England 12th-century establishments in England