question: Richard Brooke, bought the manor of Norton, near Runcorn, Cheshire from Henry VIII in 1545 following the dissolution of the monasteries, the manor included the former monastery of which historic site in Norton, Runcorn, Cheshire, England, comprising the remains of an abbey complex dating from the 12th to 16th centuries, and an 18th-century country house; it is now a museum?
answer: Norton Priory
context: Title: Combermere Abbey
  Passage: Combermere Abbey is a former monastery, later a country house, near Burleydam, between Nantwich and Whitchurch in Cheshire, England, near the border with Shropshire.  Initially Savigniac and later Cistercian, the abbey was founded in the 1130s by Hugh Malbank, Baron of Nantwich, and was also associated with Ranulf de Gernons, Earl of Chester.  The abbey initially flourished, but by 1275 was sufficiently deeply in debt to be removed from the abbot's management.  From that date until its dissolution in 1538, it was frequently in royal custody, and acquired a reputation for poor discipline and violent disputes with both lay people and other abbeys.  It was the third largest monastic establishment in Cheshire, based on net income in 1535.
  Title: Botleys Mansion
  Passage: Botleys Mansion is a Palladian mansion house in the south of Chertsey, Surrey, England.  The house was built in the 1760s by builders funded by Joseph Mawbey and to designs by Kenton Couse.  The elevated site once bore a 14th-century manor house seized along with all the other manors of Chertsey from Chertsey Abbey, a very rich abbey, under Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries and today much of its land is owned by two hospitals, one public, one private and the local authority.  The remaining mansion and the near park surrounding were used for some decades as a colony hospital and as a private care home.  The building is owned and used by Bijou Wedding Venues Limited.
  Title: Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey
  Passage: Monkwearmouth–Jarrow was a twin-foundation, English, Roman Catholic monastery, located on the River Wear in Monkwearmouth and on the River Tyne in Jarrow, respectively, in the Kingdom of Northumbria and historic County Durham (now in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, England).  Its formal name is The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, MonkwearmouthJarrow.  Jarrow became the centre of Anglo-Saxon learning in the north of England, producing the greatest Anglo-Saxon scholar, St. Bede.  It was confiscated from the Roman Catholic Church by King Henry VIII during his dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th century, and subsequently fell to ruin.  The twin monastery was the UK's nomination for World Heritage Site status in 2011.
  Title: Statue of St Christopher, Norton Priory
  Passage: The Statue of St Christopher stands in the museum at Norton Priory, Runcorn, Cheshire, England.  It is a large statue of St Christopher that was created towards the end of the 14th century and is a rare survival of a religious sculpture from late medieval England.  After the Dissolution of the Monasteries the sculpture was owned by the Brooke family and stood originally in the outer courtyard of their house, and later in the garden.  When the Brooke family left the site, the statue remained and, in a damaged condition, it was given to National Museums Liverpool in 1964.  It has been restored and is housed in the museum on the site of the priory.
  Title: Caldey Priory
  Passage: Caldey Priory is a Grade I-listed priory on Caldey Island off the coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales, some 300 m south of the modern Caldey Abbey.  Sir Robert fitz Martin was granted the island in 1113 and his mother Geva founded the priory as a daughter house of the Tironensian St. Dogmaels Abbey in the 12th century at.  It was probably built on a preexisting Celtic Christian site, and lasted to the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, although the number of monks resident there ranged from one in the late 12th century, four in 1402 and six in 1504.  The buildings were significantly upgraded in the 16th century after the priory was secularized, but there is no evidence that they were used by either of the owning families of the time.  Several centuries later they were used as a farm house, centered on the priory's church.  Around 1800 they became the farm buildings for a new house built for Thomas Kynaston, owner of the island from 1798.  Restoration of the buildings may have begun as early as the mid-1890s, but the Rev. W. D. Bushell began the restoration after he bought the priory in 1897.  He sold the property in 1906 to the Anglican Benedictine community that built the current abbey, but rented the house and the priory until he died in 1917.  The house was subsequently demolished in the 1970s.
  Title: Whitby Abbey
  Passage: Whitby Abbey was a 7th century Christian monastery that later became a Benedictine abbey.  The abbey and its possessions were confiscated by the crown during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII.  The abbey church was situated overlooking the North Sea on the East Cliff above Whitby in North Yorkshire, England.  The substantial ruins of the church have been declared a Grade I Listed building and are in the care of English Heritage, while its site museum is housed in Cholmley House.
  Title: Boxwell Court
  Passage: Boxwell Court is a country house near Leighterton in Gloucestershire.  In its grounds there is a small church, and the house is thought to be the site of a former monastery, which was then given to the Huntley family following Henry the Eighth's dissolution of the monasteries.  The House has continually been in the Huntley family since that time, it is believed that the family have lived on the site for 600 years.  The estate is approximately 1000 acre which although large in today's terms, is small compared to the size of the Huntley's former Gloucestershire estates which included Woodchester and Frocester.  The estate is known for its Box wood which used to provide a very large income to the Huntleys.
  Title: Richard Brooke (Norton)
  Passage: Richard Brooke (died 1569) bought the manor of Norton, near Runcorn, Cheshire from Henry VIII in 1545 following the dissolution of the monasteries.  The manor included the former monastery of Norton Priory and also the settlements of Norton, Stockham, Acton Grange and Aston Grange in Cheshire and Cuerdley in Lancashire.
  Title: Castle Hill, Filleigh
  Passage: Castle Hill in the parish of Filleigh in North Devon, is an early Palladian country house situated 3 miles north-west of South Molton and 8 miles south-east of Barnstaple.  It was built in 1730 by Hugh Fortescue, 14th Baron Clinton (1696–1751), who was later created in 1751 1st Baron Fortescue and 1st Earl of Clinton, the son of Hugh Fortescue (died 1719), lord of the manor of Filleigh, Weare Giffard, etc., whose family is earliest recorded as residing in the 12th century at the manor of Whympston in the parish of Modbury in South Devon.  The Fortescue family became major land owners, influential in British and West Country history.  Castle Hill is a rare example in Devon of an 18th-century country mansion "on the grand scale" and forms a highly impressive, unmissable and even dominating sight from the public highway which was, until 1988 when the A361 North Devon Link Road was opened, the main road west to Barnstaple and which appears purposely to meander past to afford the traveller maximum viewing opportunities.  The house was substantially reconstructed following a disastrous fire in 1934.  It was designated a Grade II* listed building in 1967.  The park and gardens are Grade I listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.  Today the property is leased by Eleanor, Countess of Arran (born 1949), the grand-daughter of Hugh Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue (1888–1958).  The only historic residence of the Fortescue family now remaining as a seat of the Earls Fortescue is Ebrington Manor in Gloucestershire, a very modest building in comparison to Castle Hill.
  Title: Norton Priory
  Passage: Norton Priory is a historic site in Norton, Runcorn, Cheshire, England, comprising the remains of an abbey complex dating from the 12th to 16th centuries, and an 18th-century country house; it is now a museum.  The remains are a scheduled ancient monument and are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.  They are considered to be the most important monastic remains in Cheshire.
citations: Norton Priory Richard Brooke (Norton)