Binham

St. Mary's, Binham Priory.

Binham is a most attractive village between Wells-next-the-Sea and Holt, with many fine flint cottages, houses and farmhouses.

At the focal point of the village is Binham Priory, founded in 1091 by Peter de Valoines for Benedictine monks. Not a lot of the monastic buildings have survived intact, only nave is still more or less complete and is now the parish Church of St. Mary.

Of the ruins, the stone and flint columns standing to the east lend an eerie but beautiful aspect. Many of the cottages in the village were buit using stones from the ruins.

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Some of the Priory ruins, looking north.

The Priory remains looking west.