Amesbury Priory
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Amesbury Priory was a Benedictine monastery at Amesbury in Wiltshire, England, belonging to the Order of Fontevraud. It was founded in 1177 to replace the earlier Amesbury Abbey, a Saxon foundation established about the year 979. The Anglo-Norman Amesbury Priory was disbanded at the Dissolution of the monasteries and ceased to exist as a monastic house in 1539.
Robert of Arbrissel: his lost tomb effigy at Fontevraud Abbey in central France
King Henry II, founder of Amesbury Priory
Page from the Amesbury Psalter (English, c. 1249)
Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany, detail
Amesbury Abbey (house)
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Amesbury Abbey is a Grade I listed mansion in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, built in the 1830s for Sir Edmund Antrobus to designs of Thomas Hopper. The house, which stands in Grade II* listed parkland, is now used as a care home. It takes its name from Amesbury Abbey, founded in about 979 on or near the same site.
Amesbury Abbey, 1890s
The 1661 house, from the 1725 volume of Vitruvius Britannicus; attributed there to Inigo Jones, now credited to John Webb
South front
East elevation