Description: West prospect of Thurgarton Priory engraved for William Draper Esq. Thurgarton's parish church is now a 19th-century re-working of the remains of the church of an Augustinian priory built in the 12th century. It was founded and endowed by Radulphus de Ayncourt with benefactors including several members of the Villers family; confirmed by King Henry II and King Edward III, in the seventeenth year of his reign.