Reigate Priory began as a medieval Augustinian house and was closed in the Reformation. The estate then passed to William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, who rebuilt it as a private residence.
Alec Kingham's Great British Life round up states that the priory supposedly has a twelfth century priest lurking on the premises. No date, witness or place within the building is given, and a fuller story has not turned up in the other pages checked.
It is typical of a haunting that attaches to a religious site because of what it once was. It is entered as a thin traditional report so that the priory is not missing from the county's record.
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