page_title: Gresley Priory
section_title: 16th Century
hierarchical_section_title: Gresley Priory / History / 16th Century
caption_attribution_description: English: Gresley Church, Derbyshire, seen from the north
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: The Valor of 1535 valued the Priory as worth £26 15s. 4d. annually; with of the rectories of Gresley and Lullington valued at a further £12 18s. 4d., the total value of the Priory was £39 13s. 8d. Deductions (which included 18s. 4d. for alms to the poor) left the clear annual value at £31 6s (equivalent to approx 3 years of the average craftsman wages ).
  The priory was dissolved a year later in 1536.
  The Prior, John Okeley, was granted a pension of £6; two cannons serving as vicars of Lullington and Gresley were both granted £5 16s. 8d.
caption: SS George & Mary parish church, drawn by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm in the 18th century; Prior to the church's large-scale reconstruction in the 1820s
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