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This article, part of a supplement dedicated to the proceedings of the 2012 Summer Meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain, discusses the history of the Norton Priory, now the Norton Priory Museum and Gardens, in Runcorn, England. Particular focus is paid to the archaeological research which has been undertaken at the site, including excavations which took place from 1970 to 1987 and the more recent study of human remains.

The article discusses Haverfordwest Priory, an Augustinian priory constructed in Haverfordwest, Wales in the 13th century. The land was given to the Augustinians in 1200 and was leveled using a series of drains. Excavation of the ruins revealed a 14th-15th-century garden as well as evidence of the Dissolution carried out by Henry VIII.

The article describes The Bayle, the gatehouse of the former Augustinian Priory at Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The license for the construction of the gatehouse was granted King Richard II in 1388. The Bayle was built to serve as a distinguished entrance to the monastic areas of the Priory, in anticipation of an increase in the number of pilgrims visiting the establishment when former Prior John de Thweng is canonized. The exterior of The Bayle is made of freestone, though the west face has been partly rebuilt in brick during the seventeenth century.

The article offers information on the Grove Priory and the Royal Manor of Leighton in Bedfordshire, England, which was visited by the delegates to the Summer Meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute held at Bedford on July 13, 1982. The Grove Priory was one of the six alien priories of the Benedictine Order of Fontevrault in Anjou founded in 1164 on the gift of the royal manor of Leighton. The manor was granted by Edward I to his daughter Mary of Woodstock in 1305. During the French wars, the manor was confiscated and in 1361 it was regained by Fontevrault. The Grove Priory was owned successively by the Dukes of Suffolk, Eton College and Windsor College in the 15th-ventury. The Grove was separated from the manor when it was granted by Edward IV to his mother Cecily Neville in 1480.

The article describes the remains of the Bromfield Priory in England. It is considered an interesting case of a Saxon minster church which retailed many of its old attributes. It is noted that the east and parts of the north wall are Norman and the south wall of the nave had been claimed as Norman. The author claims that Bromfield was not cruciform but perpetuated the Anglo-Saxon arrangement of a two-cell body with lateral transepts. The Norman church was attributed to the Benedictines, whose canons or their patrons might have built the church.

This article, part of a supplement dedicated to the proceedings of the 2012 Summer Meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain, briefly discusses the history of the Benedictine priory at Birkenhead in England, located near the city of Liverpool.

The article chronicles the history of the Boxgrove Priory in West Sussex, which was discussed at the summer meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute in Chichester, England in 1985. The priory started as a cell of Lessay in Normandy after Robert de la Haye donated Boxgrove to that abbey. An overview of materials, architectural and structural designs of the priory is presented.

The article features the Dunstable Priory in Bedfordshire, England, which was visited by the delegates to the Summer Meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute at Bedford on July 14, 1982. The Augustinian Priory of Saint Peter was founded by King Henry I in Dunstable by 1125, and the church was said to have been completed by the consecration by the Bishop of Lincoln in 1213. The church featured a parochial altar that was dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, which was located in the north nave aisle until 1392.

The article offers information on the Chicksands Priory in Bedfordshire, England, which was visited by the delegates to the Summer Meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute at Bedford, England on July 14, 1982. The Chicksands Priory was founded in 1154 as a house of the Gilbertines, the only Order to originate in Great Britain who revived the idea of the double monastery. In 1576, ownership of the priory was handed to the Osborne family. It was James Wyatt who created most of the external appearance of the priory. Wyatt gave the entrance front of the abbey a symmetrical seven-bay facade of two-light Gothic windows with pinnacled porch and pinnacles at the ends.