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St Olave's Priory is a Benedictine foundation located at Olave in Suffolk, established in the eleventh century as a cell dependent upon the abbey of Bury St Edmunds. The priory occupied a modest site in the rural landscape of central Suffolk and appears to have remained a small, relatively obscure monastic community throughout the medieval period. The surviving physical remains are fragmentary, comprising stone foundations and rubble that attest to modest conventional buildings typical of a dependent priory rather than a major monastic establishment. Like other religious houses in Suffolk, St Olave's was dissolved at the Reformation in the sixteenth century, after which the site fell into decline and the buildings were progressively dismantled or exploited for reusable stone.
St Olave's Priory is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1003909. View the official record →
St Olave's Priory is a Benedictine foundation located at Olave in Suffolk, established in the eleventh century as a cell dependent upon the abbey of Bury St Edmunds. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1003909.
St Olave's Priory is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1003909.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Mill Hill bowl barrow, 650m north east of Caldecott Hall (3 km), Lound Waterworks engine house (4.4 km), Burgh Castle Roman fort, vicus, pre-Conquest monastery and Norman motte and bailey castle (5.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of St Olave's Priory's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
St Olave's Priory stands on Neogene To Quaternary Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Quaternary. The rock here is gravel, sand, silt and clay.