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Chipley Priory was a small
available online
. Retrieved 2011-05-03.
Suffolk Churches. Retrieved 2011-05-03. The date of its foundation is unknown and the first references to it occur in 1235. The priory never became a major house – a taxation roll from 1291 shows its income at less than £5 per annum – and by 1455 the buildings were ruins. By 1468 the
British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2011-05-03. The priory church is believed to have been destroyed in 1818 and human remains and other artifacts have been recovered from the site, with a stone coffin and bell kept at Poslingford Church. A plaque erected on the site in 1990 by the Clopton Family Association, lists information about the occupants, burials and priors of the priory.
Chipley Priory was a small Augustine
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religious house, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, located about north-west of the village of Poslingford
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of Suffolk
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.Page.W (1975) 'Houses of Austin canons: Priory of Chipley', ''A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2'', p. 99available online
. Retrieved 2011-05-03.
Suffolk Churches. Retrieved 2011-05-03. The date of its foundation is unknown and the first references to it occur in 1235. The priory never became a major house – a taxation roll from 1291 shows its income at less than £5 per annum – and by 1455 the buildings were ruins. By 1468 the
Bishop of Norwich
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allowed the lands to be annexed by the College
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at Stoke-next-Clare.
The site is occupied by a 17th-century farmhouse which incorporates some medieval building material believed to come from the priory buildings.Chipley Abbey, PoslingfordBritish Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2011-05-03. The priory church is believed to have been destroyed in 1818 and human remains and other artifacts have been recovered from the site, with a stone coffin and bell kept at Poslingford Church. A plaque erected on the site in 1990 by the Clopton Family Association, lists information about the occupants, burials and priors of the priory.
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