Bromfield Priory was a priory in
Shropshire
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,
England
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, located at
Bromfield near
Ludlow
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.
It was a college of
secular canons, founded before 1061. The
Domesday Book
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of 1086 records a remarkable amount of detail about the priory and its history. The priory held 20
hides of land in 1066 and 10 hides by 1086, including land at
Halford,
Dinchope,
Ashford Bowdler,
Felton,
Burway, and
Ledwyche, as well as the hamlets of
Prior’s Halton,
Lady Halton and
Hill Halton.
In 1086 there were 12 canons. St Giles in
Ludford was a chapel of the priory.
From 1258, the Priory was under the control of
Gloucester Abbey: one of the priors of Bromfield, Henry Foliot, subsequently became Abbot of Gloucester.
In 1538, as part of the
dissolution of the monasteries, the priory was closed; the priory house was acquired in 1541 by Charles Foxe. It remained the Foxe family home until it was destroyed by fire in the 17th century.
The priory church survives as
Bromfield's parish church.
See also
*
St Mary the Virgin's Church, Bromfield
References
British history online
Monasteries in Shropshire
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