Stoke sub Hamdon Priory is a 14th-century former priest's house of the chantry chapel of St Nicholas, in Stoke-sub-Hamdon, Somerset, England. It is designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building, and Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The Ham stone building was originally the Provost's Lodging, part of the College Buildings of the Beauchamp Chantry. Before 1304 it may have been the rector's house.
After 1518 it became a farm, known as Parsonage Farmhouse, which it remained until around 1960.
The priory has been owned by the National Trust since 1946.
Major restoration was carried out in 1967.
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“Blessing turned to blasphemies,
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Sin is where our Lady sat,
Heaven turned is to hell,
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Walsingham, Oh farewell!”
—Unknown. A Lament for the Priory of Walsingham (l. 39–44)