This is a large Dominican Priory which was built in 1239 with its own church. The friars were preachers, teachers and confessors to the rich. When Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in the 16th century, it was sold to Sir Thomas Bell in 1539. He turned it into a private mansion and used the other buildings as a workplace. in 1780 the great hall was leased to a church and later it became a school. 1930 businesses still used part of the buildings to do do their trade, and the west range became a pub. It now belongs to the English Heritage and is a tourist attraction

Monks are said to haunt this priory, and doors are known to have locked by themselves, and during 1969, when restoration was taking place a unknown cellar was discovered and the skeleton of a young child was found, a particular monk who wears a black robe is said to be seen near this place on many occasions and is thought, there might be some link to the child.