Southwick Priory

Southwick Priory
Monastery information
Full nameOur Lady of Southwick
Established1133
Disestablished7 April 1538
People
Founder(s)Henry I
Site
LocationPortchester and Southwick, Hampshire, England
Visible remainsChurch at Portchester, one wall and earthworks at Southwick
Public accessTo churches

Southwick Priory or Our Lady at Southwick (/ˈsʌðɪk/)[1] was a priory of Augustinian canons founded in Portchester Castle on Portsmouth Harbour and later transferred 2 miles (3.2 km) north to Southwick, Hampshire, England. It ceased at the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1538.

  1. ^ "Southwark", in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World (1952), New York: Columbia University Press.