One of the great successes of Gilchrist's book is to populate those marvellous building we can still admire in the 21st century with some of the living, breathing people who once called them home. EASTERN DAILY PRESS Given its complementary verbal and illustrative wealth as well as its historical, archival, archaeological, and architectural historical breadth, this is a consequential book that deserves to be broadly consulted. SPECULUM This splendid book is groundbreaking and fundamental. Immensely learned but also well written and effectively designed to be accessible to a wide audience. Essential. CHOICE This excellent book is the most detailed treatment to date of such a landscape, packed with detail and new insights. BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY Splendid...triumphantly demonstrates how much more can be learnt not only about cathedral priories but about monasteries more generally. SOUTHERN HISTORY This splendid book provides insights to both the division of a location into sacred, public, private and functional spaces, as well as investigating the various religious and social influences upon changes in a landscape through time. Always an exhilarating read. LANDSCAPE HISTORY [A] splendid new book. [...] An impressive and important book [which] will deservedly remain for many years a standard work of reference. NORFOLK & NORWICH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER A seminal work of scholarship: a vital reference for all future historians and archaeologists of this and other cathedral-priories. THE CHURCH TIMES