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Description: | The Augustinian priory of St Denys, founded in 1127, was a ruin by 1812. We can see here St Denys Farm, partly built from the materials of the priory. The stone troughs out of which the farm's cattle drunk were in the main re-used coffins! The farm remained until the mid nineteenth century, when the area was developed for modern housing. The west end of the chapel, all that now (2004) remains of the priory above ground, is in the garden of a house in Priory Road.
In 1812, the ruins of the priory and the farm lay in the estate belonging to Portswood House. They had until very recently been the property of General Giles Stibbert, of the Bengal Presidency. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | St Dionisius Giles Stibbert building St Denys Farm church priory St Denys farmhouse farm Priory Road St Denys Priory St Dennis abbey | Temporal: | start=1812-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | S Prout; J Greig; W Clarke, Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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