Merton Priory

Merton Priory

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This page dedicated to Merton Priory is the 'sister page' to the already existing 'Chapter House' at Merton page. Please see 'the Chapter House' page for information and updates about forthcoming events taking place there.

Merton Priory was an Augustinian monastery founded in 1114 by Gilbert Norman, Sheriff of Surrey under Henry I, at Merton in Surrey. In 1117 the monastery moved to its current site on the banks of the river Wandle, now called Merton Abbey, in Colliers Wood in the London Borough of Merton.
The priory was colonised by Canons Regular from the Augustinian priory at Huntingdon. It was an important centre of learning, attracting pupils such as Nicholas Breakspeare in 1125 (who became Adrian IV, the first English Pope, in 1154) and Thomas Becket in 1130. Walter de Merton, Lord Chancellor, Bishop of Rochester and founder of Merton College Oxford, was educated at the priory in the 1230s.

In January 1236 Henry III's wife, Eleanor of Provence, was crowned at Merton Priory. In the same month, Henry III held a Parliament at the Priory at which the Statute of Merton was agreed.

Merton Priory has been subject to a number of archaeological excavations and today, apart from a portion of the precinct wall, the only visible walls of the priory are those of the early 13th-century chapter house, now a temporary museum below Merantun Way.

(see The Chapter House)

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