Blythburgh Priory
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Blythburgh Priory was a medieval monastic house of Augustinian canons, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, located in the village of Blythburgh in Suffolk, England. Founded in the early 12th century
One of the priory buildings in 2017
Two sides of the Blythburgh writing tablet
Arthur Hopton (1488–1555)
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Sir Arthur Hopton of Cockfield Hall in Yoxford, Suffolk was an English knight, landowner, magistrate, and Member of Parliament.
Blythburgh Priory
…rectories were granted in 28 Henry VIII (1536) to Walter Wadelond of Needham Market, and the reversion thereof was granted in 30 Henry VIII (1538) to Sir Arthur Hopton of Blythburgh and of Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, in tail male. The grant included "the site, with the church, steeple, and churchyard and the said closes…
John Hopton's tomb at Blythburgh, looking through to the Hopton chapel
Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, showing the surviving Tudor work in the north wing