Saint-Vigor Priory, formerly Saint-Vigor Abbey (), was a Benedictine monastery in the town of Saint-Vigor-le-Grand in Calvados, Normandy, France. Its foundation is attributed to Saint Vigor, bishop of Bayeux in the first third of the 6th century.BNF: Prieuré Saint-Vigor. Saint-Vigor-le-Grand, Calvados It was destroyed in the late 10th century by the invading Normans.Honoré Fisquet, La France pontificale (Gallia christiana), E. Repos, Paris, 1864-1873, pp. 175-178 In the late 11th century Odo, bishop of Bayeux, attempted a revival of the monastery as an independent abbey but it was not successful, and in the 1090s the community was made a dependent priory of the Abbey of St. Benignus, Dijon. The abbey relinquished its rights over the priory in 1702. The reformist Congregation of St. Maur took it on in 1712.Essai historique sur le Prieuré de Saint-Vigor-le-Grand, by the Abbé Faucon (2009), in "Histoire Locale: feuille périodique" No 720 It was suppressed in 1790 in the French Revolution.
It has been listed as a historical monument since 1908.
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