Editing Boxgrove Priory (section)

==History==
===Origins===
The Priory was founded in the reign of Henry I, about 1123<ref name=BHO>{{cite web|title=British History Online: La Manche: Part 4|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/france/918-1206/pp327-351|accessdate=20 February 2018}}</ref> by Robert de Haia (or de la Haye), Lord of [[Halnaker|Halnacre]] by gift of the king. A Saxon church had existed on the site before the Conquest. The Priory was founded for three [[Benedictine]] monks, and was a dependency by the [[Lessay Abbey]] in Normandy.<ref name=History>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxgrovepriory.co.uk/|title=Boxgrove Priory: History|accessdate=20 February 2018}}</ref><ref name=Dally>{{cite book|title=The Bognor, Arundel and Littlehampton Guide|author=Richard Dally|publisher=W. Mason|date=1828|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bognorarundelan00dallgoog/page/n171 152]–159|url=https://archive.org/details/bognorarundelan00dallgoog|quote=Robert de Haia.|accessdate=20 February 2018}}</ref><ref name=Elwes>{{cite book|title=A History of the Castles, Mansions, and Manors of Western Sussex|author=Dudley George Cary Elwes|date=1876|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ahistorycastles00elwegoog/page/n69 41]–44|publisher=Longmans|url=https://archive.org/details/ahistorycastles00elwegoog|quote=Robert de Haia.|accessdate=20 February 2018}}</ref>

In about 1126, upon the marriage of Robert's daughter Cecily to Roger St John the number of monks living at Boxgrove was increased from the original three to six. Robert had died by 1165. By 1187 there were 15 monks. A 19th monk was added to the priory in about 1230 by William de Kainesham, [[canon (priest)|Canon]] of [[Chichester]].

By 1535 the priory's possessions were worth £185 19s. 8d. gross, and £145 10s. 2½d. clear.<ref name=Dally />

===Dissolution===
The [[Priory]] was [[Dissolution of the Monasteries|dissolved]] in 1536. At the time of the dissolution there were eight priests and one novice, as well as twenty-eight servants and eight children living in the priory. After the dissolution, the Priory church became the parish church.<ref name=History />