Horsley Priory was a medieval, monastic house in

Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean. The county town is the city of Gl ...

, England. Goda owned an estate at Horsley, in 1066. It was granted to Troarn Abbey by

Roger de Montgomery Roger de Montgomery (died 1094), also known as Roger the Great, was the first Earl of Shrewsbury, and Earl of Arundel, in Sussex. His father was Roger de Montgomery, seigneur of Montgomery, a member of the House of Montgomerie, and was probably ...

before 1086. The original grant was said to provide for a prior, a monk, and a parish chaplain to reside at Horsley.''Cal. Inq. Misc.'' iii, pp. 274–5 From those provisions emerged the cell called Horsley Priory. Troarn Abbey exchanged the priory with Bruton Priory for lands in Normandy in 1260. The priory of Horsley ceased to exist before 1380. Horsley manor was retained by Bruton Priory, until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539. In 1541, Horsley was granted to Thomas Seymour.

Priors of Horsley

*Stephen, 1262, (fn. 28) occurs 1269 *Walter de Horwood, occurs 1271 *Richard de la Grave, 1292 *William, 1298 *William de Milverton, ob. 1329 *Laurence de Haustede, 1329 *Henry de Lisle, 1335 resigned 1357 (fn. 36) *Richard de Holt, 1357 resigned 1363 (fn. 38) *William Cary, 1363

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* Monasteries in Gloucestershire 1080s establishments in England Christian monasteries established in the 11th century 1539 disestablishments in England {{UK-Christian-monastery-stub