Complex sentence: Following the Norman Conquest, part of the land was granted to the monks of Merton Priory by Gilbert the Norman, and a Chapel-now the church-was built, the first recorded incumbent being in 1179.
Split into simpler sentences: Following the Norman Conquest, part of the land was granted to the monks of Merton Priory by Gilbert the Norman. A Chapel-now the church-was built, the first recorded incumbent being in 1179.