Brinkburn Priory is a former monastery built, starting in the 12th century, on a bend of the River Coquet, about 4 miles (6 km) east of Rothbury, Northumberland, England.

The "lesser monasteries" were those with an income of less than £200 per annum, and Brinkburn fell into this category as in 1535 the priory's value had been recorded as £69 in the Valor Ecclesiasticus.

Services continued to be held at Brinkburn, and the church was retained in a fair state of repair till the end of the 16th century.

In the 19th century the Cadogan family, owners of Brinkburn, revived the plans for the restoration of the church and work began in 1858.

The tombstone of Prior William, Bishop of Durham (died 1484) was found during the reconstruction, as was the original altar stone with five crosses.

[2] The manor house, which utilises part of the vaulted undercroft to the monks' dining hall, presents a nineteenth-century appearance.

While the north door is in elaborate late Romanesque style, most of the ornament is refined, in the manner of contemporary work at Hexham Priory and Byland Abbey, freely mixing rounded and pointed arches.

Of the south range the vaulted undercroft to the refectory now supports the post-Reformation manor house, externally now Gothick and neo-Tudor work of 1810 and 1830–37.

The church and cloister stood within an extensive walled precinct which contained the buildings needed to sustain a monastic community.

[6] Except for some fragments of the mill incorporated in the 18th-19th century structure east of the church, these have vanished above ground, leaving the precinct as a wooded area.