Merton Priory

51.414722222222 - 0.18083333333333Koordinaten: 51 ° 24 ' 53 "N, 0 ° 10' 51 " W Merton Priory was a monastery from 1114 to 1538 in Surrey, England.

The monastery was founded in 1114 by Gilbert Norman, Sheriff of Surrey under Henry I..

From 1117 populated Augustinian canons of the monastery Huntingdon. It developed into a center of education.

Famous students were

• Nicholas Breakespeare ( 1125 ), later Pope Adrian IV ( 1154-1159 )
• Thomas Becket ( 1130), English Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury
• Walter de Merton, Lord Chancellor, Bishop of Rochester and founder of Merton College, Oxford - he took the name of the monastery, where he was educated in the 1230s years

1538 had Henry VIII destroy the monastery. This happened during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in connection with the removal of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church. The stones were usually reused in Nonsuch Palace.

Today, on the site of the monastery, a branch of the supermarket chain Sainsbury's. Remnants can be seen in the pedestrian tunnel under the Merantun Way, between Sainsbury's and Merton Abbey Mills.