Priory of St Thomas of Canterbury, Birmingham

The Priory or Hospital of St Thomas of Canterbury was a house of Augustinian canons in medieval Birmingham.

[2] The date of the priory's foundation is unknown, but numerous later records suggest that it was established by a member of the de Birmingham family.

[3] The first record of the priory occurs in 1286, when gifts of property from three local land-owners were licensed to be held in mortmain; and a pardon issued in 1310 for the failure to similarly license thirty-three other donations of land suggests that the priory was thriving at this time.

[4] In 1344, however, its management was severely criticised by a visitation, and it was extensively reformed by the Bishop of Lichfield.

[6] The chapel survived ten years beyond the priory's dissolution to support its chantry, until it too was dissolved in 1546-1547.