The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain Accompanied with descriptions . v45:nS,^;g^va^ ^-y. DOORWAY TO THE CHAPTER ROOMOF MENDHAM PRIORY, SUFFOLK. The remains of the priory at Mendham, or Medenhara,». e. the Village in the Meadc^ws, or as it was sometimescalled. Hurst priory in Mendham, from being situated on awoody island, were, in the year 1815, levelled with theground, leaving the subject of the annexed plate the onlyvestige of those once extensive buildings. It was foundedin the
The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain Accompanied with descriptions . v45:nS,^;g^va^ ^-y. DOORWAY TO THE CHAPTER ROOMOF MENDHAM PRIORY, SUFFOLK. The remains of the priory at Mendham, or Medenhara,». e. the Village in the Meadc^ws, or as it was sometimescalled. Hurst priory in Mendham, from being situated on awoody island, were, in the year 1815, levelled with theground, leaving the subject of the annexed plate the onlyvestige of those once extensive buildings. It was foundedin the reign of king Stephen; when William de Huntingfieldgave the whole island of St. Mary, or Hurst island, in Mend-ham, to the monks of Castle Acre, Norfolk, on conditionthat they should erect on it a church of stone, and build aconvent adjoining, where they should place at least eight oftheir number, to be under the government of a prior, nomi-nated by the founder and his heirs, subject to the approvalof the prior of Acre. The establishment, which was dedi-cated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, was largely endowed bythe founder, and enriched by many subsequent benefactions;out uf which half a mark of si
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