page_title: Gresley Priory
section_title: 13th Century
hierarchical_section_title: Gresley Priory / History / 13th Century
caption_attribution_description: Lullington Church, South Derbyshire
context_page_description: Gresley Priory was a monastery of Augustinian Canons regular in Church Gresley, Derbyshire, England, founded in the 12th century.
  Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the priory church became the village's parish church of St George and St Mary It was the church that gave Church Gresley its name.
  Excavations undertaken in 1861 reveal the priory's buildings were situated around a cloister to the south of the church; the refectory occupied the south range, and two chapter houses occupied spaces to the east of the cloister.
  Of the original 12th-century priory buildings, only the foundations of the church and lower section of the tower remain; this is due to large scale rebuilding works done around 1820. The church is Grade II* listed.
context_section_description: In the year 1245, a later William de Gresley gifted the advowson of the nearby Church of Lullington, Derbyshire to the Prior and his heirs in-return for "all the benefits and prayers which should henceforth take place in the conventual church of Gresley, for ever." 
  This, and all other previous charters and gifts from the Gresley family to the Priory, were confirmed by Sir Geoffrey de Gresley in 1268; these included the grant of the mill at Castle Gresley to the priory.
  In 1291, Sir Geoffrey's grandson, another Geoffrey de Gresley assigned lands to the priory in the parish of Castle Gresley; the following years he made arrangements for one canon of the priory to sing mass for the soul of his wife Anneys.
  In the Taxation Roll of 1291, the priory was valued at £3 19s. 7½d. a year, with the churches of Gresley and Lullington both valued at £5 6s. 8d. a year.
caption: All Saints Church, Lullington
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