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Priory
Priory Pri"o*ry, n.; pl. Priories. [Cf. LL. prioria. See Prior, n.] A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2. Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the prior was chosen by the inmates, and governed as independently as an abbot in an abbey; the other where the priory was subordinate to an abbey, and the prior was placed or displaced at the will of the abbot. Alien priory, a small religious house dependent on a large monastery in some other country. Syn: See Cloister.

Meaning of PRIORY from wikipedia

- priory is a monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress. They were created by the Catholic Church. Priories may...
- Look up priory in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A priory is a house of men or women under religious vows headed by a prior or prioress. Priory may also...
- Prieuré de Sion (French pronunciation: [pʁijœʁe də sjɔ̃]), translated as Priory of Sion, was a fraternal organisation founded in France and dissolved in...
- which was destro**** during the Viking invasions but re-established as a priory following the Norman Conquest of England. Other notable sites built on the...
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- 88750; -0.30556 Sele Priory was a medieval monastic house in Upper Beeding, West Sus****, England. It was a Benedictine Order priory founded before 1126...
- The Priory Hospital, Roehampton, often referred to as The Priory, is a private mental health hospital in South West London. It was founded in 1872 and...
- Poulton Priory or the Priory of St Mary was a Gilbertine priory in Poulton, Gloucestershire, England. It was founded as a chantry chapel in 1337 by Sir...
- Holme Priory, also known as East Holne Priory, was a priory in Dorset, England. The priory of Holme, or Holne as it was anciently called, a cell of the...
- Nostell Priory is a Palladian house in Nostell, West Yorkshire, in England, near Crofton and on the road to Doncaster from Wakefield. It dates from 1733...