Present Day
The house that replaced the priory was burnt down in 1750, the site is now occupied by Southwick House. Of the priory itself, one section of wall and some earthworks survive. Some remnants of the priory church may survive, transferred and reset in the parish church of St James.
The church of St Mary at Portchester survives, inside the Roman wall of Porchester Castle, returned to parochial use. It is substantially a Norman building, and hence the one the priory originally used. No trace of the conventual buildings survive above ground except for some drain openings and the marks of the abutment of the cloister against the south wall of the nave.
The priory estates at Southwick are still intact as the Southwick Estate.
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