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Thicket Priory was founded during the reign of King Henry II
by Benedictine nuns. Initially built of wood, and thatched, it eventually
acquired walls of stone, glazed windows and a leaded tiled roof and was
described as such when it was eventually dissolved by Henry VIII during his
infamous Dissolution of the Monasteries, in the late 1530s. Thicket Priory was
one of the last to be dissolved, which occurred in 1539.
Although the priory was destroyed the accompanying farm
buildings were retained, and when the site of the priory was exchanged by the
King Henry VIII in 1542 to John Aske for various manors held by Aske in Sussex,
it continued as a substantial farm estate. Aske eventually sold the estate to
John Robinson, a prosperous merchant of London, who then left it in his will to
his son, Henry Robinson, who later sold the estate to his brother Humphrey
Robinson.
Humphrey Robinson decided to make the estate his home and
had a substantial house built there around 1622, initially referred to as
Thicket Hall, but which eventually gave way to the name Thicket Priory, and the
Thicket Priory Estate was then born.
The estate passed to the Jefferson family in 1803 and
descended by the will of Robert Jefferson to a cousin, John Dunnington, in
1812, but conditional upon John Dunnington adopting the name of Jefferson.
In 1844 the Rev. Joseph Dunnington-Jefferson decided to have
a beautiful new country house built to replace the old Thicket Priory (Thicket
Hall) of the Robinson family and embarked on an ambitious building project-a
new Thicket Priory. The architect he employed for this prestigious project was
none other than Edward Blore, notable for his works on Lambeth Palace,
Buckingham Palace, Hampton Court Palace, Windsor Castle, and many others.
The Dunnington-Jefferson family moved into their new Thicket
Priory in 1848. It was during the tenure of Thicket Priory III that the estate
reached its pinnacle of success, followed by its lowest ebb, brought on by two
world wars and the introduction of onerous estate duties, it was decided it
must be sold.
Then in 1955, a new sisterhood of Carmelite nuns acquired
Thicket Priory. After almost eight centuries, since nuns first established the
original Thicket Priory, Nuns were once again in residence. They lived there
until 2009 when, they built a monastery in the old apple Orchard.
Contents
vi. Sources and Abbreviations
1. Chapter 1 - Foundation of Thicket Priory I to the Dissolution
45. Chapter 2 - Dissolution to Thicket Priory II
71. Chapter 3 - Thicket Priory II to Thicket Priory III
81. Chapter 4 - Estate Management
87. Chapter 5 - WWI and the Inter-War Years
93. Chapter 6 - WWII and the Post-Ware Years
101. Epilogue
