Bury

Title

Bury

Also Known As

Buriacum

Dates

Founded 1079; Benedictine from 1080s; Premonstratensian by mid-13th century; dissolved 18th c.

Dedication

Lucian

Medieval Diocese

Beauvais

Circary

Ponthieu

History

An eleventh-century foundation first of canons and then of Cluniac monks, Bury was transferred to the Premonstratensian Order as a dependent priory on Saint-Just about the mid-13thth century. It remained a possession of Saint-Just until the Revolution.

Heads of Community

Priors

Regnier, fl. late 16th century

Status

Priory

Bibliography

Lefèvre-Pontalis, Eugène. “Église de Bury.” In Congrès archéologique de France : séances générales tenues en 1905 à Beauvais, 38–42. Paris: A. Picard, 1906. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k356740/f110.item.
Noblécourt, Janny, and Robert Dourlen. Saint-Lucien de Bury. Mouy: Patrimoine Historique du Canton de Mouy, 2004.
Warmé, Antoine-Joseph. “Sur l’origine et l’histoire de Bury, église et prieuré compris.” In Mouy et ses environs : Angy, Bury, Ansacq, Cambronne, Heilles, Hondainville, Neuilly, Mello, Mouchy-le-Chatel, Saint-Félix, Thury-sous-Clermont, Ully-Saint-Georges, 245–58. Beauvais, 1873. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k102893f/f252.item.

Image Credit

Exterior of Saint-Lucien de Bury, 2012. Wikimedia.

Last Updated

Oct. 2026.

Files

Collection

Ponthieu

Citation

“Bury,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/445.

Geolocation

Item Relations

This Item DependentOn Item: Saint-Just-en-Chaussée