Horsham St Faith Priory
St Faith's Priory, Horsham, otherwise Horsham St Faith Priory, was a Benedictine monastery in Horsham St Faith, Norfolk, England.
History
The monastery was founded at Kirkscroft in Horsford in 1105 by Robert Fitz-Walter and Sybil his wife, daughter and heiress of Ralph de Cheney, as a dependent priory of Conques Abbey in Midi-Pyrénées in France, and, like the abbey, dedicated to Saint Faith. It was thus an alien priory. The site in Horsford proved unsatisfactory, and the foundation moved to Horsham instead. The priory was endowed with income from an unusually high number of churches.In 1390, the prior and the 8 monks that formed the then community were granted denization, and the priory from that time forwards was independent of Conques and regarded as an English house. For this reason, it was not affected by the Act of 1414 that enabled Henry V to confiscate the alien priories, but survived until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536.