Calcetto Priory was a
priory
A priory is a monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress. Priories may be houses of mendicant friars or nuns (such as the Dominicans, Augustinians, Franciscans, and Carmelites), or monasteries of mon ...
in
West Sussex
West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and the boroughs of Crawley and Worthing. Covering an ar ...
,
England
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. "Calcetto", meaning "Causeway", was an alternative name for the house of Augustinian canons at
Pynham.
['Houses of Augustinian canons: Priory of Pynham', in W. Page (ed.), ''A History of the County of Sussex'', Vol. 2 (London 1973]
pp. 80-81
(British History Online).
References
Monasteries in West Sussex
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