Our Lady of England Priory

The Church, designed by Edward Goldie,[2] is brick with stone dressings[3] and was completed in 1904.

The first Prior of Storrington Priory was a French White Canon, Father Xavier de Fourvière [fr] (born Albert Rieux in 1853 in the Provençal village of Robion (better known today as "Peter Mayle country").

Xavier de Fourvière was a renowned writer, poet and charismatic preacher, a member of Frédéric Mistral's famous "Félibrige" movement for the Provençal language.

He preached often at the church of Our Lady of France, Leicester Square, London where he was taken ill in May 1912, returned to Provence (hoping the sun would secure his restoration) but he died in October 1912 and is buried in his birthplace, Robion.

The poet Francis Thompson stayed at the Priory nearly two years after being brought there by Wilfrid and Alice Meynell to recover from opium addiction.