Priory exploring #boxgrovepriory #monastery

Join me for a walk around Boxgrove Priory in West Sussex. Founded in around 1107 and dissolved by (you guessed it) Henry VIII in 1537.
Incidentally, an archaeological dig close to the priory found the oldest hominin remains in Britain: Homo Heidelbergensis

#boxgrovepriory #boxgrove #priory

External view of flint church building showing scars of years of modification

Romanesque column capitals inside the church

View of the end flint-built wall of the ruined Priory’s guesthouse

View of the Church of St Mary and St Blaise located in the historic village of Boxgrove. Wild grasses and cow parsley in the foreground

This gorgeous ⛪️ is dedicated to St Mary and St Blaise. Nothing remains of the earlier AS church, the present building dates from the early C12th & clues to its modification can still be read in its walls! N of the church lie the ruins of the Priory guesthouse #boxgrovepriory #stonemasonarymonday