Snelshall Priory

The priory was founded after Sybil d'Aungerville granted land at Tattenhoe to Lavendon Abbey, a Premonstratensian monastery of 'White canons' who most likely started a cell at Snelshall.

[1] About 1219, the founder's son brought in Benedictine monks, increased the endowment and the new monastery began again.

[citation needed] The priory accumulated various land through gifts, but even with all these grants, in 1321 when Henry Burghersh visited, it was so poor that "the monks scarcely had the necessities of life and had to beg even for these".

In 1529, Bishop Longford found "irregularities"[1] among the two or three monks that remained, and as a result all women, married and unmarried, were barred from the precinct of the priory.

The stones were recycled to build the nearby St Giles's Church, Tattenhoe.