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The Carthusian Priory of Hinton. By E. T. D. Foxcroft, 
J.P., D.L., &c. 
(Read April 28th, 1891.) 
Having been asked by the Secretary to contribute a paper 
to the members visiting Hinton Abbey, I have ventured to 
offer a short account of the Carthusian Priory of Hinton, 
though with some natural trepidation, as I feel myself but poorly 
equipped for a task which demands resources which I feel I do 
not possess. Let me say at once that I do not profess to approach 
the subject from a strict archeological standpoint. { do not aim at 
doing more than attempting to give a mere outline of the history 
of this religious foundation, leaving the completer account to other 
and abler hands which I hope may in time take up a rather 
neglected page of our local archeology. My consolation must be 
that a more thorough handling of the subject might lead to a 
minuteness and prolixity which would extend the paper beyond 
the limits permissible on an occasion like the present. 
In passing along the New Warminster Road, near what would 
be the sixth milestone, had the old Turnpike Trustees or the 
modern County Council seen fit to place those useful landmarks 
on this particular highway, the eye is arrested by an ancient 
building of a rather peculiar form ; a lofty, four-gabled erection, 
ending in a lower construction to the East. At a distance of a 
few hundred yards to the N.W. stands a moderate-sized manor- 
house of Elizabethan character. The gabled building is the 
principal remaining fragment of the old Carthusian Priory of 
Hinton. The manor-house has undoubtedly been constructed 
from the materials of other monastic buildings which were 
demolished after the Dissolution. The fragment I have mene 
tioned is not, however, all that is left of the old Priory. I shall 
describe the other remains later on, and shall attempt to assign 
to the buildings that are still standing what I believe were the 
