©Si Barber. Moral rights asserted.   Binham Priory, in North Norfolk, England, was founded around 1091 by Peter de Valognes, a nephew of William the Conqueror, as a Benedictine house dependent on St Albans Abbey. Its ruins—especially the towering west front of the church, still incorporating the parish nave stand as one of Britain’s finest examples of Early English Gothic architecture. After the Dissolution in 1539, the nave continued in use as the parish church of St Mary, while the monastic buildings fell into decay.