Southwick Priory - Post-Dissolution

Post-Dissolution

The priory came into the possession of John White, a servant of Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton. He pulled down the church and converted the prior's lodgings and other parts of the conventual buildings into a private house, known as Southwick Park which became the family seat of one branch of the Norton family. In October 1551, Mary of Guise Regent of Scotland and mother of Mary, Queen of Scots stayed in the house. On the death of John White in 1567 the manor passed to his son and heir Edward. In 1580 Edward died, leaving a son and heir, John, who, in 1606, settled the manor on his daughter and co-heir Honor on her marriage with Sir Daniel Norton, and they came into possession of the manor on the death of John White in the following year.