priory

Enthralled by Burbage’s big talk, John Brayne sold his house, let his business slide and coughed up the money needed to begin construction amid the ruins of a medieval priory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

It was not until August 2019, at the age of 35, that he formally converted to Catholicism at a Dominican priory in Cincinnati.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2025

The ruins of a priory, with its dramatic rainbow arch, still stand, as does a Tudor castle whose imposing silhouette dominates the landscape.

From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2022

Mark is one of the owners of Brinkburn Northumberland, a 12th Century manor house and priory which offers holiday lets and hosts weddings near Longframlington in Northumberland.

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2022

“And in all your long experience of the priory, did you ever know them to look after an infant?”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

And Alison is the kind of plucky heroine who teases her lover about his research: “Lost treasures, haunted priories, secret maps? I think I saw that movie once.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

The tax agreement has been one of Ms. Yellen’s top priories as Treasury secretary.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2022

His companions were genuine lay brothers, able to lead him through the marshes and waterways to isolated hermitages and priories, where he would be able to plan his next moves.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2020

Gov. Sam Brownback has made water one of his top priories since taking office with his staff developing a plan to sustain the state’s water resources.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 27, 2017

In 1295 Edward I. took possession of all the existing alien priories for the sake of the revenue they would bring into his exchequer.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire by H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph) Massé