More information : [TF 15760962] Priory Farm on site of Priory [GT] (1) In 1139 Baldwin Fitz Gilbert established the Benedictine Priory of St. James at Deeping as a cell of Thorney Abbey. The house was dissolved in 1539. The old house north of the church (? Priory Farm) is probably built on the site of the priory buildings, (2) but see TF 11 SW 21 for suggested alternative site. On the south-east side of the churchyard is the priory tithe barn, of coursed rubble, with porch, 90 ft by 20 ft.6in. internally, variously described as 13th century, (5) probably late 15th century, (6) & 17th. century (7). (2-7) The tithe barn was demolished in 1963 and the site, to be used for building three bungalows, is at TF 15780950. Priory Farm is of Modern construction. There are no surface indications or remains of the Monastic House. (8)
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