West Mersea Priory was a

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priory in

West Mersea West Mersea is a town and electoral ward in Essex, England. It is the larger (in terms of population) of two settlements on Mersea Island, south of Colchester. History Roman buildings and tesselated pavements close to the quayside have led to ...

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and Grea ...

, England. It was founded in 1046 and granted by Edward the Confessor to the

Abbey of Saint-Ouen Saint-Ouen Abbey, (french: Abbaye Saint-Ouen de Rouen) is a large Gothic Catholic church and former Benedictine monastic church in Rouen. It is named for Audoin (french: Ouen, ), 7th-century bishop of Rouen in modern Normandy, France. The church' ...

in Rouen. As an alien priory it was taken by

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who granted it in 1422 to Henry Chichele, archbishop of Canterbury, for his college at

Higham Ferrers Higham Ferrers is a market town and civil parish in the Nene Valley in North Northamptonshire, England, close to the Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire borders. It forms a single built-up area with Rushden to the south and has an estimated popula ...

. The priory was dissolved in 1542. There are no physical remains.Victoria County History of Essex: Priory of West Mersea
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Monasteries in Essex West Mersea Benedictine monasteries in England Alien priories in England {{UK-Christian-monastery-stub