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Combwell Priory was a priory near Bedgebury Cross about 10 miles southeast of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England.


History

This is a Grade II listed building. It was founded as a
Premonstratensian The Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré (), also known as the Premonstratensians, the Norbertines and, in Britain and Ireland, as the White Canons (from the colour of their habit), is a religious order of canons regular of the Catholic Church ...
abbey by Robert de Thurnham in the reign of Henry II but became an
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priory in 1220. It was suppressed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries and on 20 November 1537 was granted to Thomas Culpeper, becoming the mansion house of branches of the Culpepper and later Campion families. After 1657 little remained of either the abbey or the later house. Nothing of the original building remains standing although the current private home was built using some of the original building materials.


Priors of Combwell

* Richard Netter (1424) * Henry (1460)."CP40/799; 1460; Plea rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; margination: Kent, the prior as defendant".
''National Archives''.


Burials

*
Stephen Thurnham Stephen Thurnham (died 6 March 1214) was a British justice and administrator. He was the son of Robert Thurnham, a Kentish landowner, and the older brother of Robert Thurnham, and first came to official attention in 1170 when, along with his father ...
*Robert of Thornham, founder of this Priory/Abbey and father of
Stephen Thurnham Stephen Thurnham (died 6 March 1214) was a British justice and administrator. He was the son of Robert Thurnham, a Kentish landowner, and the older brother of Robert Thurnham, and first came to official attention in 1170 when, along with his father ...
and of
Robert of Thornham Robert of Thornham (or Robert de Turnham) (died 1211) was an English soldier and administrator. The namesake of his landowner father, he was the younger brother of Stephen of Thornham. Robert made his reputation in connection with the conquest o ...


References


Further reading


A History of the County of Kent: Volume 2
William Page


External links

Monasteries in Kent {{UK-Christian-monastery-stub