Robert Burgon was one of the Crown Appointees charged with carrying out the Royal Commission of 1534 into the dissolution of monasteries.
c. 1560 the Burgoynes (as they were then known) pulled down most of the old Priory and erected in its place a manor house of brick in the Elizabethan style of the day.
Enhancements and changes were made to the Church, and by 1580 the Priory had been renamed the Abbey. The Estate flourished.
