St. Botolphs Priory

St. Botolph's Priory was a Medieval Augustinian religious house in Colchester, Essex and had the qualification of being the first and driving Augustinian community in England until its disintegration in 1536. A Saxon church devoted to St Botolph initially remained on the site of the convent, with a pinnacle which looked like the Saxon pinnacle of Holy Trinity church in Colchester. The church's change to an Augustinian monastery started with a Kentish minister called Norman, who had contemplated under Anselm of Canterbury in France before coming back to England and settling in Colchester.

There, he joined a school of mainstream clerics at the congregation of St. Botolph who had set out to join a religious request, and whose pioneer, Ainulf, swung to Norman for guidance on the issue. As they were the first of their request in England they were dependably to be held first in pride, and to have expert over all places of St Augustine. The Priory was to be free from the purview of any individual, common or clerical, and on the passing of Ainulf or any of his successors another go to be chosen by most of the brethren and exhibited to the Bishop of London for sanctification with exceptional forces.