Bridlington Priory is founded around 1113 by Walter de Gant, for Augustinian Canons Regular, one of the earliest Augustinian houses in England, with an adjoining convent.

Its foundation is confirmed in charters by King Henry I of England.

The site had formerly been a Saxon church and nunnery.

When complete, the building will be over four hundred feet long (one hundred and twenty meters) and seventy-five feet wide (twenty-three meters), with a transept that is one hundred and fifty long (forty-six meters).

The first prior is though to have been called Guicheman or Wickeman.