Great Bricett Priory

[citation needed] The priory of Bricett was claimed, early in the thirteenth century, as pertaining to the monastery of Nobiliac, in the diocese of Limoges and the Duchy of Berry.

[citation needed] In 1325 Thomas Durant and Margaret his wife obtained licence to enfeoff John de Bohun of a fourth part of the manor of Great Bricett, together with the advowson of the priory of St Leonard of the same town.

In the same year John Bardoun and Isabel his wife released to the prior and canons of St Leonard's all their right and claim in the manor of Great Bricett.

The position of the E. and W. doors on the N. side of the nave, the lines of the Norman transept and the E. wall of the Manor House are suggestive of a cloister.

The uncovering of a wall in the farmhouse exposed a circa 1270 wooden arcade, and led to the discovery that this substantially 13th-century building was in fact the western range of the cloister.