Merton Priory
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Merton Priory was an English Augustinian priory founded in 1114 by Gilbert Norman, Sheriff of Surrey under King Henry I. It was situated within the manor of Merton in the county of Surrey, in what is
Window tracery from Merton Priory, on display in the Museum of London (February 2010)
Remains of a knapped flint wall, a rare survival from Merton Priory
The ruins of the chapter house
Newark Priory ruins
Nonsuch Palace
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Nonsuch Palace was a Tudor royal palace, commissioned by Henry VIII in Surrey, England, and on which work began in 1538. Its site lies in what is now Nonsuch Park on the boundary of the borough of Eps
Merton Priory
…shillings 6 pence. John Bowles alias John Ramsey surrendered the monastery of 14 canons on 16 April 1538. Much of the masonry was reused at the king's Nonsuch Palace. The site of the Priory is now occupied by Sainsbury's supermarket (Merton branch). Remains of the Chapter House are now a museum under Merantun Way…
Detail of Georg Hoefnagel's 1568 watercolour of the south frontage of Nonsuch Palace
An early 17th-century depiction of Nonsuch Palace
Detail of Nonsuch Palace from the North East, circa 1666–1679, attributed to Hendrick Danckerts
These reliefs in the Lumley Chapel in nearby Cheam are believed to be the only surviving depictions of the Nonsuch Palace interiors.