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Bilsington Priory is a former Bilsington Priory Estate Ltd
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Bilsington Priory is a former Augustinian Augustinian may refer to:
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* Canons Regular of Sain ...
priory
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in Kent
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, England, about north of Bilsington
Bilsington is a village and civil parish in the Ashford district of Kent, England. The village is about south of Ashford, on the B2067 road, Hamstreet to Hythe road north of the Royal Military Canal.
About of a quarter of the parish is wooded ...
and about south of Ashford Ashford may refer to:
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** ...
. It was founded in 1253 by John Maunsell
Sir John Maunsell ( 1190/1195 – 1265), Provost of Beverley Minster, was a king's clerk and a judge. He served as chancellor to King Henry III and was England's first secretary of state.
Life
His grandfather, Robert Mansel, was a Templar u ...
, with help from the canons of Merton Priory
Merton Priory was an English Augustinian priory founded in 1114 by Gilbert Norman, Sheriff of Surrey under King Henry I (1100–1135). It was situated within the manor of Merton in the county of Surrey, in what is today the Colliers Wood area ...
, which provided the first three priors. Being a monastic house under £200, it was suppressed in the 1536 Dissolution of the Monasteries. Its lands were granted to Anthony St Leger, who exchanged them with Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I. He helped build the case for the annulment of Henry' ...
, Archbishop of Canterbury
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.
Some of its buildings survived and were converted into a farmhouse. In 1906 they were restored to designs by JT Micklethwaite. They are Grade I listed
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. The priory is now a wedding and conference venue./ref>
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