Boxgrove Priory — Attraction in Chichester

When arriving at Boxgrove, through leafy green woodlands, you are greeted by the 12th century ruin of the priory guest house, this house was built to entertain the guests and to provide lodgings. Originally the building had two storeys with a vaulted cellar, and if you look at the north end of the building you can see the support that held the vault for the under croft.

When you wander on, you can see a small homely parish church, the exterior is medieval but when looking around the church you can see the cracks, the walls and columns that have been ripped down and ruined, which originally was a larger building but now what remains is known as the parish church.

The chapel and the ruins truly make for a special visit, it is somewhere you can calmly gather your thoughts and take the time to see all the natural beauty untouched, but obviously the church is in use and is used for mass, tours, audio recordings, concerts and lecturers.

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After visiting the beautiful Titchfield Abbey we stopped here on the way back to our BnB. It's a nice little ruin. The Priory was founded over 900 years ago! Even though some parts are collapsed, it's still standing at full height. There's just a small parking lot. But we were still the only visitors on the sunny summer weekday. Quite surprising. Because it's free to enter, pet-friendly and quite pretty.

And you actually get two sights with one visit: The equally beautiful Priory of St Mary & St Blaise is just next to and still in use. A very pretty priory with a surrounding graveyard. Both the inside and the outsides are free to roam and visit.

Maybe not one of the biggest and most famous sights in southern England, but a very pretty one and well...

A throughly fascinating and beautiful priory. Although the original nave is no longer standing, the remaining quire and chancel are extensive and large enough to dispel any misgivings as to the integrity and substance of the surviving structure. The painted and vaulted ceiling is superb and there are plenty of intriguing architectural features to keep visitors absorbed for a good hour or so. The Priory has an excellent acoustic, particularly a capella choral pieces and has been used by a number of top class ensembles as a recording venue - Gothic Voices for instance. The ruined part of the priory is also of interest and consists of the living and sleeping quarters of the monks, who built the Priory. This part of the site is maintained by...