Pain de Wykeham granted his house to the priory and his son Theobald gifted the nuns 48 acres of land.

[2] The only relic of the nunnery is the north wall of the priory church, which dates from the end of the 12th century.

[1] The house was considerably expanded in the 19th century; 1835 is the year marked on a datestone and the loggia was added in 1839.

[3] Wykeham Abbey has been the seat of the Viscounts Downe since 1909, and the surrounding estate spreads across 2,500 acres.

[4] Like many country houses in England, Wykeham Abbey served as a Red Cross recovery hospital in World War I.