List of monastic houses in England
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Monastic houses in England include abbeys, priories and friaries, among other monastic religious houses.
The sites are listed by modern (post-1974) county.
Overview
[edit]The list is presented in alphabetical order ceremonial county. Foundations are listed alphabetically within each county.
Communities/provenance: shows the status and communities existing at each establishment, together with such dates as have been established as well as the fate of the establishment after dissolution, and the current status of the site.
Formal name or dedication is the formal name of the establishment or the person in whose name the church is dedicated, where known.
Some of the establishments have had alternative names over the course of time; such alternatives in name or spelling have been given.
Alien houses are included, as are smaller establishments such as cells and notable monastic granges (particularly those with resident monks), and also camerae of the military orders of monks (Knights Templars and Knights Hospitaller). The numerous monastic hospitals per se are not included here unless at some time the foundation had, or was purported to have the status or function of an abbey, priory, friary or preceptor/commandery.
The name of the county is given where there is reference to an establishment in another county. Where the county has changed since the foundation's dissolution the modern county is given in parentheses, and in instances where the referenced foundation ceased to exist before the unification of England, the kingdom is given, followed by the modern county in parentheses.
Abbreviations and key
[edit]* | current monastic function |
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+ | current non-monastic ecclesiastic function (including remains incorporated into later structure) |
^ | current non-ecclesiastic function (including remains incorporated into later structure) or redundant intact structure |
$ | remains limited to earthworks etc. |
# | no identifiable trace of the monastic foundation remains |
~ | indicates exact site of monastic foundation unknown |
≈ | identification ambiguous or confused |
Locations with names in italics indicate probable duplication (misidentification with another location) or non-existent foundations (either erroneous reference or proposed foundation never implemented) or ecclesiastical establishments with a monastic appellation but lacking monastic connection.
EH | English Heritage |
LT | Landmark Trust |
NT | National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty |
Alphabetical listing
[edit]Bedfordshire
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Foundation | Image | Communities and provenance | Formal name or dedication and alternative names | |
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Beadlow Priory $ | Benedictine monks — from Milbrook dependent on St Albans, Hertfordshire founded 1140/6 by Henry d'Albini; abandoned 1435, reverted to the Crown, the buildings falling into decay thereafter | Saint Mary Magdalen ____________________ Beaulieu Priory | ||
Bedford Greyfriars # | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the custody of Oxford); founded 1238 by Mabilea de Plateshull; dissolved c.1539; granted to John Gostwyke | Saint Francis | ||
Bedford Abbey # | Benedictine monks founded before 971; ceased to exist decades before 1066 (possibly destroyed in raids by the Danes 1010); | |||
Bedford Priory + | secular canons collegiate founded before 1066; Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1165-6 by Simon Beauchamp; transferred to new site at Newnham c.1080; current parish church of St Paul built on site from 14th century | |||
Bushmead Priory ^ | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1195 by Hugh Beauchamp; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir William Gascoign; refectory incorporated into mansion built on site; (EH) | The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Bushmead ____________________ Bissemede Priory | ||
Caldwell Priory # | Augustinian Canons Regular — Holy Sepulchre founded c.1154 (1153) (early in the reign of Henry II, or during that of Stephen) by Simon Basket (Barescote?), Alderman of Bedford, or a member of the Barescote family, or between 1199 and 1216 (during the reign of John): land granted by Robert of Houghton, confirmed by Henry III, or between 1199 and 1216 (during the reign of John): land granted by Robert of Houghton, confirmed by Henry III; Augustinian Canons Regular before c.1280; dissolved 1536; granted to Thomas Leigh c.1562 | The Priory Church of Saint John the Baptist at Caldwell ____________________ Cauldwell Priory | ||
Chicksands Priory ^ | Gilbertine Canons and Canonesses — double house founded c. 1150 (1147) by Pain de Beauchamp and his wife, Rose (Roese/Roais) or c.1154; dissolved 1538; granted to London grocer Richard Snow; cloisters incorporated into private house; Crown Property 1936; in grounds of Military base to 1995; restored by MOD 1997–8 | Saint Mary ____________________ Chicksand Priory | ||
Dunstable Blackfriars # | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Cambridge) founded 1259 at the invitation of King Henry III and his consort; dissolved before 8 May 1539 | |||
Dunstable Priory + | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1131 (or before 1125?) by Henry I; dissolved 1540; granted to Sir Leonard Chamberlayne nave of church now in parochial use | The Priory Church of Saint Peter, Dunstable ____________________ Dunstaple Priory | ||
Elstow Abbey + | Benedictine nuns founded 1078 by Judith, niece of William the Conqueror; dissolved 1539; granted to Sir Humphrey Radcliff c.1553; nave now in use as parish church | The Abbey Church of Saint Mary and Saint Helena, Elstow | ||
Grovebury Priory #, Leighton Buzzard | Fontévrault Benedictine monks and nuns, double house alien house: cell dependent on Fontévrault manor granted after 1164 by Henry II; founded after 1189; conventual house possibly never properly established, becoming a chapel with resident chaplains and manor with rental tenants; occasional royal residence; dissolved 1414; farmhouse built on site | La Grave Priory; Leighton Buzzard Priory; Grovesbury Priory | ||
Hardwick Preceptory # | Knights Hospitaller founded before(?) 1279 dissolved before(?) 1489 | |||
Harrold Priory # | Augustinian Canonesses — Arroasian under protection and guidance of (possibly lay) brothers (see immediately below) alien house: daughter house of Arrouaise, Normandy founded 1138 by Sampson le Forte; ceded to Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire 1177 Augustinian Canonesses became denizen: independent from 1188; dissolved 1536; granted to William Lord Parr site occupied by farmhouse and a mansion named 'Harrold Hall', built 1608–1610 | The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Peter, Harrold ____________________ Harwood Priory | ||
Harrold Priory Cell ~ | Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian (or possibly lay-brothers) attached to the nunnery (see immediately above) founded c.1136-8; dissolved before 1181 | |||
Leighton Buzzard Cell # | Cistercian monks cell or grange? dependent on Woburn; founded before 1159 | |||
Markyate Priory | See List of monastic houses in Hertfordshire | |||
Melchbourne Preceptory | Knights Hospitaller founded before 1176 by Lady Alice de Claremonte, Countess of Pembroke; dissolved 1486; held by the prior of England from 1489, de facto losing its status as a preceptory; granted to John, Earl of Bedford 1550/1; restored to the Knights by Queen Mary | Melchbourne Priory; Melchburn Preceptory; Mechelburn Preceptory | ||
Millbrook Priory # | Benedictine monks priory cell dependent on St Albans, Hertfordshire; founded 1097-1119: church granted to St Albans by Nigel de Waste; transferred to (/merged with) Beadlow 1143; dissolved 1140–6 | Saint Michael ____________________ Millbrook Cell | ||
Newnham Priory # | Augustinian Canons Regular — from Bedford Priory (collegiate church of St Paul) (community founded at Bedford c.1165) transferred here c.1180; dissolved 1540; granted to Urian Brereton 1540/1 | Saint Paul ____________________ Newenham Priory; Newenham by Bedford Priory | ||
Pulloxhill Grange | Augustinian Canons Regular grange of Dunstable; dissolved; granted to Sir William Pagett 1547 | |||
Ruxox Cell | Augustinian Canons Regular cell/chapel for retired brothers from Dunstable; founded before 1189; dissolved after 1290 | chapel dedicated to St Nicholas ____________________ Rokesac | ||
Turvey Abbey * | Benedictine nuns extant; adjacent to Benedictine monastery | The Priory of Our Lady of Peace | ||
Turvey monastery * | Benedictine monks founded 1980; extant; adjacent to Benedictine Abbey | The Monastery of Christ our Saviour | ||
Warden Abbey # | Cistercian monks founded 1136 by Walter Espec; dissolved (surrendered by the abbot and monks) 4 December 1538; Elizabethan house built on site (of which exist only remnants) renovated 1974; (LT) | The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Old Warden ____________________ St Mary de Sartis Abbey; Old Warden Abbey; Wardon Abbey | ||
Woburn Abbey # | Cistercian monks daughter house of Fountains, Yorkshire founded 28 May 1145 by Hugh de Bolebec; dissolved 1538; granted to John Lord Russell 1547/8 site now occupied by a mansion, estate and safari park | The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Woburn Abbey |
Berkshire
[edit]Foundation | Image | Communities & Provenance | Formal Name or Dedication and alternative names |
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Ankerwycke Priory, Wraysbury | Benedictine nuns founded c.1160 by Gilbert de Mountfitchet, Kt., Lord of Wyrardisbury and his son; dissolved before 8 July 1536; granted to Lord Windsor 1538/9 then to Sir Thomas Smith 1550/1 ruins in grounds of Ankerwycke House | The Priory Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Ankerwyke ____________________ Ankerwick Priory; Ankerwyke Priory | |
Ascot Priory *, Winkfield | Anglican nuns founded 1861; extant | The Priory Church of Jesus Christ | |
Bisham Abbey # | Augustinian Canons Regular priory founded 1337 by William Montacute; built to the northeast of the site of the former Knights Templars' preceptory (see immediately below) dissolved 1536 Benedictine monks abbey founded 1537 by Henry VIII; the abbey incorporating parts of the former Knights Templars' structure; (transferred from Chertsey, Surrey); dissolved 1538; granted to Sir Edward Hoby c.1554; extant preceptory & demolished priory/abbey site now headquarters of the National Sports Council | The Priory Church of the Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, Bisham The Abbey Church of the Holy Trinity, Bisham ____________________ Bustlesham Priory; | |
Bisham Preceptory # | Knights Templar founded before 1139 by Robert de Ferrers; dissolved 1308–12; Augustinian priory later founded to northeast of site (see immediately above); extant preceptory & demolished priory/abbey site now headquarters of the National Sports Council | ||
Bradfield Abbey ~ | monks documented 1066 land granted by King Ine to Hean, Abbot of Abingdon, and Ceolswyth 688-90 to found a monastery; community included monks, status and site otherwise unknown | ||
Bradley Priory ~ | Benedictine monks dependent on Abingdon Abbey (Oxfordshire) manor, described in 1547 as 'lately a priory'; status and site otherwise unknown | ||
Bromhall Priory #, Sunningdale | Benedictine nuns daughter house of Chertsey, Surrey; founded before 1200 by Edward, the Black Prince; accidentally burnt 1462; dissolved 1521 when the last prioress died and the remaining sisters left; given to St John's College, Cambridge remains destroyed or incorporated into farm buildings | The Priory Church of Saint Margaret, Bromhall ____________________ Broomhall Priory | |
Cold Ash Centre * | Franciscan Friars Minor and sisters Novitiate house for the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary founded 1930s; extant | The Cold Ash Centre | |
Cookham Abbey ~ | probable double monastery founded before 726; granted to Canterbury by Æthelbald of Mercia; confiscated by Offa and Coenwulf; restored before 798; granted by Archbishop Æthelheard to Cynethryth, an abbess; site now occupied by parochial church | ||
Donnington Friary ^ | Crouched Friars founded before 1404 (1392/3), land granted by Sir Richard Abberbury to the London Friary c.1376; dissolved 1538 (recorded at suppression as Trinitarian, later corrected to Crossed Friars); site now occupied by country house named 'The Priory' | Donington Friary | |
Douai Abbey *, Woolhampton | Benedictine monks (community founded at Douai, Belgium, 1615) removed from Douai 1903; extant | The Abbey Church of Saint Edmund, King and Martyr, Upper Woolhampton | |
Greenham Preceptory ~ | Knights Hospitaller founded c.1180 (1199) on estates granted by Matilda Countess of Clare and Gervase Paynell; last preceptor d. 1442; made part of the estate of the prior of England by the grand master of Rhodes 1445 dissolved 1540; briefly restored under Queen Mary | ||
Hurley Priory + | Benedictine monks founded before 1087 (1065) granted by Godfrey de Magna Villa (Mandeville) to the Benedictines of Westminster to found a cell; dissolved 1536; granted to Leonard Chamberleyn c.1544 nave of church now in parochial use | The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Hurley | |
Kintbury Abbey # | possible Saxon abbey, minuter or oratory founded before 931, not mentioned in Domesday survey; land granted to Fontevrault Benedictine nuns and brothers 1147 by Robert Le Bossu to found a monastery; transferred to new site at Nuneaton, Warwickshire 1155; planned refoundation probably never established | Saint Mary | |
Poughley Priory ^ | Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1160 by Ralph de Chaddleworth; dissolved 1524 and granted to Cardinal Wolsey's college at Oxford and was occupied by scholars of the college; remains (cellar range) now incorporated into after-dissolution farmhouse without public access | The Priory Church of Saint Margaret, Poughley | |
Reading Abbey | Cluniac monks founded 1121 by Henry I Benedictine monks refounded c.1210; dissolved 1539; granted to Edward, Duke of Somerset c.1550; quarried and dismantled c.1550-1643 ruins extant | The Abbey Church of Our Lady and Saint John the Evangelist, Reading | |
Reading Nunnery | nuns founded 979 dissolved 1016; granted to Battle, Sussex by William the Conqueror; apparently on the site now occupied by St Mary's Minster Church (restored 1551-1555 with masonry and timbers from the demolished Reading Abbey) | ||
Reading Greyfriars, earlier site | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Oxford) founded 1233 by permission of Adam de Lathbury, abbot of Reading, and the abbey's convent; transferred to new site 1285-6 (see immediately below) | ||
Reading Greyfriars + | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Oxford) transferred from former site (see immediately above) 1285-6 with permission of the abbot of Reading; church built 1311; dissolved 15 September 1538; used as hospital, a poorhouse then a town jail; converted back to a parish church | Saint Francis | |
Sandleford Priory ^ | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1193/1202 by Jeffrey (Geoffrey), Earl of Perch and his wife Maud (Matilda); arrangements made 1274 by Maud de Clare, Countess of Gloucester and Hertford (1223–1289) to refound as a double house for Fontevrault Benedictine nuns and brothers, but this did not come about; dissolved 1478 remains converted to a country house (see also Sandleford); now an Anglican convent school | The Priory Church of Saint John the Baptist, Sandleford | |
Shalford Preceptory | Knights Templar founded c.1198, apparently granted by Simon de Ovile; Knights Hospitaller dissolved after 1276; by 1338 had become a member of Greenham | Brimpton Commandery; Brimpton Preceptory | |
Sheffield Lesser Priory ~ | Benedictine monks alien house: manor-grange dependent on St Martin-de-Noyon, Charleval; founded after 1086, manor granted to Charleval by the Count of Evreux; locally known as a 'priory' dissolved and privately leased c.1166-7; passed to Reading 1270 | ||
Sonning Minster | Saxon minster held by Bishop of Ramsbury/Sherborne 10th/11th century sometimes considered joint see with Ramsbury, Wiltshire; current parochial church dating to 9th century, largely rebuilt 1852–3; restored 1870–90 | Hundredal Minster | |
Stratfield Saye Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: priory cell dependent on Valmont founded 1169 or 1170 by Nicholas de Stoteville (Nicholas d'Estouteville): hermitage granted to Valmont; dissolved 1399; house named 'The Priory' built on site (Beech Hill in the Berkshire part of Stratfield Saye) | St Leonard ____________________ Stratfield-Say Priory | |
Templeton Camera | Knights Templar possible small hospice or hostel with chapel; passed to Knights Hospitallers in 1311; in private hands at Dissolution; mansion named 'Templeton House' built on site 1895 |
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Bristol
[edit](For references and location detail see List of monastic houses in Bristol ) [3]
Foundation | Image | Communities and provenance | Formal name or dedication and alternative names |
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Bedminster Monastery | possible Saxon monastic or secular foundation parochial church of St John probably built on site, rebuilt 1854, destroyed by bombing in World War II |
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Bristol Austin Friars # | Augustinian Friars (under the Limit of Oxford) founded 1313 by Sir Simon and Sir William Montacute; vacation house for alien students 1362; dissolved September 1538; granted to Maurice Dennis c.1543 | ||
Bristol Blackfriars ^ | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of London) founded 1227/8 by Sir Maurice [de] Gaunt; dissolved 10 September 1528 (1538?); granted to William Chester; subsequently The Friars Quaker meeting house; then Bristol Register Office; currently in use as a restaurant | ||
Bristol Eremites Friars # | Friars Eremites | ||
Bristol Friars of the Sack # | Friars of the Sack founded before 1266; dissolved after 1286; friars had left before 1322, though church continued in use | ||
Bristol Greyfriars # | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Bristol) founded before 1230/34; dissolved 10 September 1538; granted to Mayor and citizens of Bristol c.1541 | Saint Francis | |
Bristol Whitefriars # | Carmelite Friars founded 1256/1267 by Edward, Prince of Wales (the future Edward I); dissolved 1538; site successively occupied by a mansion and a boys' school; site now occupied by Colston Hall | The Blessed Virgin Mary | |
St James's Priory, Bristol + | Benedictine monks founded 1120s, built by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, son of Henry I; dissolved 1539; granted to Henry Brayne c.1543; nave in parochial use 1374; fell into disuse 1980s; in custodianship of the Little Brothers of Nazareth since 1996 | The Priory Church of Saint James, Bristol | |
Bristol — St Mary Magdalen Nunnery # | Augustinian Canonesses founded 1173 by Eva, widow of Robert Fitzharding; also given as Benedictine dissolved 1536; granted to Henry Brayne and John Marsh; King David Inn built on site | St Mary Magdalene | |
Bristol — St Philip's Priory | Benedictine monks founded c.900 | The Church of Saint Philip and Saint Jacob, Bristol | |
Bristol — St Stephen's Priory | Benedictine monks recorded as a cell dependent on Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset | ||
Bristol Cathedral Abbey: St Augustine's Abbey, Bristol + | Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine founded 1140-2 by Robert Fitzharding; first canons transferred from Shobdon Priory, Herefordshire (1120 or) 1148; dissolved 9 December 1539; episcopal diocesan cathedral founded 1542; extant | The Abbey Church of Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Bristol The Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Bristol | |
Bristol Preceptory | Knights Templar church built on site of templar church, now in ruins | ||
Westbury Priory | Saxon minster, college of secular priests founded 716; granted to Worcester Cathedral 824; probably destroyed in Danish raids 9th century; Benedictine monks refounded c.963–964 by Bishop Oswald; 12 monks transferred to new site at Ramsey Abbey, Huntingdonshire 972; priory lapsed thereafter; refounded c.1093, cell dependent on Worcester; lapsed before c.1112; refounded 1125; college of secular priests 1194; parochial church built on site | The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Westbury on Trym ____________________ Westbury on Trym Priory; Westbury Minster |
Buckinghamshire
[edit](For references and location detail see List of monastic houses in Buckinghamshire )[4]
Foundation | Image | Communities & Provenance | Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names |
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Aylesbury Greyfriars # | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Oxford) founded 1387 by James Butler, Earl of Ormond; dissolved 1 October 1538 | ||
Aylesbury Monastery # | possible nuns order and period unknown said to have been a nunnery or Trinitarian house — probably only a holding | ||
Biddlesden Abbey # | Cistercian monks — from Garendon, Leicestershire founded 10 July 1147 by Ernald de Bosco, seneschal of the Earl of Leicester; dissolved 29 September 1538; granted to Thomas Wriothesley 1540/1; remains demolished c.1727; site now occupied by private house named 'Biddlesden Park' | Saint Mary ____________________ Biddlesdon Abbey; Bittlesden Abbey | |
Bradwell Priory | Benedictine monks cell, dependent on Luffield; founded before 1136-44 (before/c.1155) by Meinfelin, Lord of Wolverton; dissolved 1524-5 (or 1526) by Cardinal Wolsey for Christ Church, Oxford; granted to Arthur Longfield 1542/3; now in private ownership; currently an urban studies centre | Saint Mary ____________________ Bradewell Priory | |
Bulstrode Preceptory $ | Knights Templar founded before 1276; dissolved 1308–1312; land passed to and leased on behalf of the Knights Hospitaller, though they had no commandery here; site identified through earthworks | ||
Burnham Abbey * | Augustinian canonesses founded 1265/66 by Richard, King of the Romans; dissolved 19 September 1539; granted to William Tyldesly 1544/5; Anglican Augustinian Society of the Precious Blood transferred from Birmingham 1916; extant | Saint Mary | |
Chetwode Priory + | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1244 or 1245 by Ralph de Norwich; dissolved, being reduced to the status of a cell, annexed to Notley 1460–1; dissolved 1535; priory church became parochial c.1480 as the Parish Church of St Mary and St Nicholas | Saint Mary and Saint Nicholas ____________________ Chetwode Cell | |
Crawley Monastery | founded before 1042; (ref. as monasterium 1086) | St Firmin ____________________ North Crawley Monastery | |
Gare Nunnery | Benedictine nuns founded 1163 in Stoke Goldington by Robert de Salcey, Peter de Goldington and Richard de Besseville; granted to Delapré, Northamptonshire, late 12th/early 13th centuries; apparently reduced to status of a grange by 1438; subsequently recorded as destroyed | Gore Nunnery; Gorefields Nunnery Prioratus Gore, Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae, Moniales Nigrae | |
Hogshaw Nunnery # | St John of Jerusalem nuns cell foundation unknown transferred to Sisters of St John Priory, Buckland, Somerset c.1180; site occupied by Knights Hospitaller commandery (see immediately below) | ||
Hogshaw Commandery # | Knights Hospitaller founded c.1180 on site of earlier nunnery (see immediately above), granted by William Peverel; dissolved 1470 becoming prior's possession; granted to Matilda Lane c.1543; church in use until 1650; ruined by 1700 | ||
Lavendon Abbey $ | Premonstratensian Canons founded c.1154/5-1158 by John de Bidun, sheriff of Buckinghamshire; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir Edmund Peckham 1543; site now occupied by house named 'Lavendon Grange' (once the home of relatives of Sir Isaac Newton) | The Abbey Church of Saint John the Baptist, Lavendon ____________________ Lavinden Abbey | |
Little Marlow Priory | Benedictine nuns founded c.1195 or before 1218 (or 1244 by Jeffrey, Lord Spensar); dissolved in, or before 1536; granted to John Tiltey and E. Restwold 1540 | Saint Mary ____________________ Little Merlow Priory; Minchin Marlow Priory | |
Luffield Priory | Benedictine monks founded after 1118 (c.1123 or 1124, or 1133) by Robert II le Bossu, Earl of Leicester; suppression authorised by the Pope 1494; dissolution stayed until 1504, after the death of the serving prior | The Blessed Virgin Mary | |
Medmenham Abbey | Cistercian monks — from Woburn, Bedfordshire founded 1201/4, or in 1202 by Hugh de Bolbec; house built 1213; dissolved before 8 July 1536 (delayed from 1524); granted to Robert Mone and others 1547; converted into a manor house | The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Medmenham ____________________ Mendham Abbey | |
Missenden Abbey ^ | Augustinian/Arroasian Canons alien house: daughter house of St Mary de Bosco, or de Nemore, Ruisseauville, France; founded 1133 by William de Missenden; the house acknowledged royal supremacy 1536; dissolved 1538; granted to the Duke of Northumberland; now a residential college rarely open to general public | The Abbey Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Great Missenden ____________________ Great Missenden Abbey | |
Newton Longville Priory | Cluniac monks alien house: daughter house of Longville Ste Foi Abbey founded c.1150 or before 1102 by Walter Giffard, Earl of Buckingham; dissolved 1414; granted to New College, Oxford 1441; Manor House purportedly built on site 1550; St Faith's Church incorporates 12th-century church remains, possibly originally part of the priory church and may have been the conventual church of the priory | St Faith ____________________ Newington-Longaville Priory; Newton-Longville Cell | |
Notley Abbey ^ | Augustinian Canons Regular founded before 1162 by Walter Giffard, Earl of Buckingham, and Lady Ermgard; dissolved 9 December 1538; granted to Sir William Paget 1547; site now occupied by a private house without public access | The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin and Saint John the Baptist, Notley ____________________ abbey de parco Crendon; Crendon Parc Abbey abbey de parco super Thamam; Nuctele Abbey; Noctele Abbey; Nuttley Abbey; Nutley Abbey | |
Ravenstone Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1255 by Peter de Chaseport (Chaceport), Keeper of the Royal Wardrobe; dissolved 1525 (or 1544); granted to Sir Francis Byran 1548; site now occupied by 19th century 'Abbey Farm' | The Priory Church of St Mary ____________________ Ravinston Priory | |
Risborough Priory (?) | Benedictine monks — doubtful establishment; reputedly pre-Conquest cell of Canterbury Cathedral | Monks Risborough Priory | |
Snelshall Priory $ | Premonstratensian Canons cell, dependent on Lavendon; founded before 1166, granted to Lavendon by Sybil de Aungervill (Dangerville); abandoned after 1203-4 Benedictine monks founded 1203/4-1219 by Ralph Mortel (grandson of Sybil de Aungervill); dissolved 1535; granted to Francis Piggot 1538; site currently comprises earthworks | St Leonard ____________________ Snellshall Priory | |
Tickford Priory | Benedictine-Cluniac monks alien house: cell of Marmoutier founded 1140 or c.1100 by Fulk Paynell; dissolved 1524; sold to Henry Atkins, MD by James I | Blessed Virgin Mary ____________________ Newport Pagnel Priory; Tyxford Priory | |
Widmere Commandery | Knights Hospitaller founded before 1248; dissolved before 1338 | Widmere Camera; Widmere Preceptory | |
Wing Priory # | Saxon monastery 7th century Benedictine monks alien house: cell, dependent on St Nicholas, Angers founded before 1086; granted by Empress Matilda to Angers; land and later, chapel, granted to Angers by Bodin de Ver; in ownership of the Crown 1342-1361 and 1393–1423; dissolved 1416; granted to St Mary de Pré, Hertfordshire by St Albans, Hertfordshire; granted to Sir Robert Dormer by King Henry VIII | Wenge Priory |
The following location in Buckinghamshire lacks known monastic connection:
- Wycombe Abbey: Independent girls' school
Cambridgeshire
[edit](For references and location detail see List of monastic houses in Cambridgeshire ) [5][6]
Foundation | Image | Communities and provenance | Formal name or dedication and alternative names |
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Anglesey Priory ^, Lode, Cambridgeshire | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1135 by Henry I; initially established as a hospital; apparently becoming a priory c.1212 when endowed by Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester; dissolved before 7 August 1536; granted to John Hynde c.1538; remains incorporated into private house named 'Anglesey Abbey' 1591; (National Trust) | The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Nicholas, Anglesey | |
Barham Friary | Crutched Friars founded before 1272 (or c.1293) apparently from Welnetham, Suffolk; later dependent on London; dissolved 1538; granted to Philip Paris c.1539, and later to John Millecent, Esq. chapel remained in use until house named 'Barham Hall' built on site 1830 | St Margaret ____________________ Barkham Priory; Bercham Priory | |
Barnwell Priory, Cambridge | Augustinian Canons Regular transferred from St Giles, Castle Hill, Lode; refounded c.1112 by Pain Peverel; plundered by townsmen 1381 dissolved 11 November 1538; granted to Anthony Brown c.1546; granted to Edward, Lord Clinton c.1552; ruins thoroughly destroyed 1810 | St Giles and St Andrew | |
Cambridge Austin Friars | Augustinian Friars (under the Limit of Cambridge) founded before 1289; transferred to new site (see immediately below) 1290 | ||
Augustinian Friars (under the Limit of Cambridge) transferred from earlier site (see above) 1290 by Geoffrey de Picheford | |||
Cambridge Augustinian Priory, Castle Hill, Lode | Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1092 by Picot, Lord of Bourn, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire, and Hugolina, his wife; transferred to new site at Barnwell Priory c.1112 | St Giles | |
Cambridge, Bethlehemite Friary (?) | Bethlehemite Friars documented 1257 — probably never established[7] | ||
Cambridge Blackfriars | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Cambridge) founded before 1238 (or 1237-42/c.1258); dissolved 1538; granted to Edward Erlington and Humphrey Metcalf c.1543; Emmanuel College built on site 1584 (see Cambridge University) |
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Blackfriars, Cambridge * | Dominican Friars founded 1938; extant | The Priory of Saint Michael the Archangel, Cambridge | |
Cambridge, Buckingham College Priory | Benedictine monks dependent on Crowland, Lincolnshire; transferred from Ely Hostel 1428; dissolved c.1540; refounded 1542 as the College of St Mary Magdalene | Monk's College | |
Cambridge, Ely Hostel Priory | Benedictine monks dependent on Ely & others; founded 1321 for brothers studying at Ely; transferred to new site at Spaldyngs Inn (see immediately below) | ||
Cambridge, Border Hostel Priory | Benedictine monks dependent on Ely & others; transferred from Ely Hostel (see immediately above) 1350 to Spaldyngs Inn (later renamed Border Hostel); transferred to new site at Cambridge, Buckingham College 1428 | ||
Cambridge Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Cambridge) founded c.1226, "by the bounty of Edward I", on the site of an old synagogue loaned to the Franciscans and adjoining land; rebuilt before 1330; dissolved 1538 (the friars departed prior to the enforcement); sold to the executors of Lady Frances Sidney 1544/5; granted to Trinity College, Cambridge 1546; Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge founded on site 1595 | ||
Cambridge Pied Friars | Pied Friars founded 1256(?) when some friars appear to have remained in the move of the Carmelites from Chesterton to Newnham; transferred to new site (see immediately below) 1273 | ||
Pied Friars (community founded at earlier site (see immediately above) 1256(?)); transferred here between 1273 and 1279 on land bought 1273 by the proctor of the Order of Blessed Mary in England; dissolved after 1319 | |||
Cambridge White Friars | Carmelite Friars (community founded at Chesterton 1247 (or 1249)); transferred here 1249 via Newnham; dissolved 1538; granted to John Eyer c.1544 |
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Cambridge — Friars of the Sack | Friars of the Sack founded 1258 at the house of John le Rus, mayor of Cambridge, from funding by Edward I; intended by the Pope to be passed to the Gilbertines 1290, but plan abandoned because the friars were still in residence; granted to Peterhouse 1307; site now occupied by Fitzwilliam Museum | ||
Cambridge — St Mary's Friars | Friars of St Mary founded c.1279 dissolved after 1319 | ||
Cambridge — St Edmund's Priory | Gilbertine Canons founded before 1291, St Edmund's chapel granted by 'the bounty or gift of' B_ son of Walter; originally intended by the Pope to be located at the friary of the Sack, but it was still occupied; dissolved 1539; granted to Edward Ebrington (Erlington?) and Humphrey Metcalf c.1543 | The Priory Church of Saint Edmund, Cambridge | |
Cambridge — St Radegund's Priory | Benedictine nuns cell founded c.1133-8 by John de Cranden, Prior of Ely with endowment confirmed by Stephen; destroye' 1313, 1376 and 1389; dissolved 1496 for the founded of Jesus College, Cambridge, which currently occupies the site | The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Radegund | |
Chatteris Abbey | Benedictine nuns founded 1006-16 by Ednoth, Bishop of Dorchester with his sister Aelfwen (or 980 by Alfwen, wife of Ethelstan, Earl of the East Angles); destroyed 1306-10; dissolved 3 September 1538; granted to Edward, Lord Clinton c.1551 | The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Chatteris ____________________ Chateris Abbey | |
Chesterton Whitefriars | Carmelite Friars founded 1247 (or 1249) by Edward I and other nobles; transferred to new site at Newnham 1249 (or 1251-6) | ||
Cherry Hinton | Bridgettine monks and nuns charter for founded 1406 — house never established | ||
Chippenham Preceptory | Knights Hospitaller — under Clerkenwell, Middlesex founded 1184 by William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex; apparently annexed to Carbrook before 1489; dissolved 1535; granted to Sir Edward North 1540/1 | ||
Denny Abbey | Benedictine monks cell dependent on Ely; founded 1159 by Robert, Chamberlain of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany; Knights Templar preceptory founded 1169; became hospital-preceptory c.1170; dissolved 1308; committed to Master Roger of Wingfield 3 June 1309; Franciscan nuns refounded 1423 by Mary de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke (Mary de St Paulo, widow of Adomare, Earl of Pembroke) on the site of a cell of Ely; dissolved before 28 October 1539; granted to Edward Erlington 1540, though nuns apparently continued to be in occupation to 1547; estate exchanged for other land owned by the King; in Crown ownership; passed to City of London 1628 to offset the debts of the King; converted to farmhouse 18th century; many changes of hands 17th-19th century; estate bought by Pembroke College and vested it into the care of the Ministry of Works 1947; part of the Farmland Museum since 1997; (EH) | The Abbey Church of Saint James and Saint Leonard, Denny (1159-69); The Nunnery of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Clare (1342-1539); ____________________ Denney Abbey; Denney Preceptory | |
Duxford Preceptory | Knights Templar founded 1273; committed to Master Roger of Wingfield 3 June 1309; passed to Knights Hospitaller by John le Clerk of Wilbraham 21 December 1313, though no preceptory or camera was maintained there; sacked 15 June 1381 during the Peasants' Revolt; 16th century Temple Farm on site | Duxford Temple | |
Eltisley Priory | Benedictine nuns founded 9th century(?); apparently destroyed in raids by the Danes c.870; Benedictine nuns founded before 1066; dissolved before 1087 | ||
Ely Cathedral Priory + | ?nuns (/and monks? — double monastery?) founded c.673; destroyed by the Danes 870; secular canons refounded 9th century; Benedictine monks founded 970; dissolved 1539; episcopal diocesan cathedral founded 1109; extant | The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Etheldreda The Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity and Saint Etheldreda | |
Fordham Priory # | Gilbertine Canons founded before 1227, built by Henry, Dean of Fordham with endowments by Hugh Malebisse; dissolved 1 September 1538; granted to Philip Parry 1540/1; site now occupied by private house named 'Fordham Abbey' | The Priory Church of Saint Peter and Saint Mary Magdalene, Fordham | |
Great Wilbraham Preceptory | Knights Templar founded 1170; dissolved 1308-12; Knights Hospitaller founded 1312; dissolved c.1350 house named 'Wilbraham Temple' built on or near preceptory site 17th century | Wilbraham Temple | |
Hinchingbrook Priory | Benedictine nuns founded before 1087 purportedly by William the Conqueror to replace Eltisely; dissolved 1536; granted to Richard Williams (alias Cromwell) 1537/8; remains incorporated into 16th century Hinchingbrooke House built on site | The Priory Church of Saint James, Hinchinbrook The Priory of Saint James without Huntingdon | |
Horningsea Monastery | early Saxon monastery destroyed in raids by the Danes 870 | Biggin Abbey | |
Holme Friary | unknown order documented 1260 | ||
Huntingdon Austin Friars # | Augustinian Friars (under the Limit of Cambridge) founded August 1258; destroyed 1286; rebuilt dissolved 1539; Cromwell House built on site: birthplace of Oliver Cromwell | St Mary | |
Huntingdon Priory, earlier site | Benedictine monks dependent on Thorney; founded before 973 by King Edgar; dissolved before 1086; transferred to new site out of the town (see immediately below); church granted to that new priory | ||
Huntingdon Priory | Benedictine monks transferred from earlier site (see immediately above); Augustinian Canons Regular 1086-91; possible secular college 1087-1106; Augustinian Canons Regular refounded c.1108(?); dissolved 11 July 1538 | St Mary | |
Ickleton Priory # | Benedictine nuns founded 1190 by Aubrey de Vere, Earl of Oxford (or by a member of the Valoignes family); dissolved 1536; granted to Thomas Goodrich, Bishop of Ely 1538/9 now on site of Abbey Farm | The Priory Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Ickleton ____________________ Ikelington Priory | |
Isleham Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: daughter of St-Jacut-de-Mer; founded 1086 (or c.1100); monks moved 1254 to sister cell at Linton; dissolved 1414; granted to Pembroke College, Cambridge which converted the church into a barn and demolished the monastery; (EH) | The Priory Church of Saint Margaret of Antioch, Isleham ____________________ Isleham Cell | |
Linton Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: daughter of St-Jacut-de-Mer: granted before 1163 "by gift of an ancestor of Alan, son of Ferlant"; monks transferred from Isleham, 1254; granted to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge; conventual until 1414; restored late-19th century | St Mary the Virgin | |
Marmont Priory | Gilbertine Canons founded before 1204 (before c.1203) by Ralph de Hauvill; referred to as a cell of Watton 1535; dissolved 1538; granted to Percival Bowes and John Mosyer 1567/8; | The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Marmont ____________________ Mirmaud Priory; Marmonde Priory; Welle Priory; Welles Priory; Upwell Priory | |
Newnham Whitefriars | Carmelite Friars (community founded at Chesterton 1247 (1249)); transferred 1249 (or 1251-6) from Chesterton; site granted by Michael Malherb; occupied until c.1292; transferred to new site in Milne Street, Cambridge | ||
Oxney Priory | Benedictine monks priory cell dependent on Peterborough; founded before 1272; dissolved 1538 | St Mary | |
Peterborough Abbey + | Saxon monastery founded c.655, built by Saxulf, a monk, and Peada, King of Mercia and his brother Wulfhere; monks 655-6; Benedictine? monks refounded? c.673 destroyed in raids by the Danes 870, derelict to c.966; Benedictine monks refounded c.966; rebuilt 966-72 by Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester with King Edgar and St Dunstan dissolved 29 November 1539; episcopal diocesan cathedral founded 1540; extant | The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Andrew, Peterborough ____________________ Medeshamstede Abbey Peterburgh Abbey | |
Ramsey Abbey | Benedictine monks founded 969, site offered by Aethelwine to St Oswald, Bishop of Worcester; dissolved 22 November 1539; church modified and incorporated into mansion named 'Ramsey House' built c.1600; in use as a comprehensive school from mid-1980s; (NT) | The Abbey Church of Saint Mary and Saint Benedict, Ramsey | |
St Ives Priory | Benedictine monks priory cell dependent on Ramsey founded c1017 by Earl Adelmus; church dedicated by Bishop Siward dissolved 1539; house built on site | St Ive | |
St Neots Priory | Benedictine monks cell dependent on Ely; founded 974 by Earl Alric and his wife Ethelfleda; cell of Bec-Hellouin 1113; new church dedicated 1113; independent 1412; dissolved 1539; site currently occupied by Market Place car park | The Priory Church of St Neot, St Neots ____________________ Eynesbury Priory | |
Sawtry Abbey | Cistercian monks — from Warden, Bedfordshire; founded 1147 by Simon de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton; dissolved 1536-37 | The Blessed Virgin Mary ____________________ Sawtrey Abbey | |
Shingay Preceptory | Knights Hospitaller founded 1144-62 Walter, first prior of the Hospitallers in England on land purportedly granted by Sibylla de Raynes (daughter of the Earl of Montgomery) and the Earl of Gloucester; Sisters of St. John nuns' cell removed to Sisters of St John Priory, Buckland, Somerset c.1180; dissolved; granted to Richard Longe 1540/1 | Shengay Preceptory | |
Soham Monastery | Saxon monks founded c.630 or 631 by St. Felix, first bishop of the East Saxons (who is purported to have had his see here); destroyed in raids by the Danes 870 or 871; parish church of St Andrew purportedly occupies the site | Seham Monastery | |
Spinney Abbey | Augustinian Canons Regular founded between 1216 and 1228 by Hugh de Malebisse and Beatrix his wife; dependent on Ely 1449; Benedictine monks 1449; dissolved 1538; granted to Sir Edward North 1544/5; site now occupied by a house and farm | Priory of St Mary and the Holy Cross, Spinney ____________________ Spinney Priory | |
Stamford — St Michael's Priory | Benedictine nuns dependent on Peterborough founded c.1155 by William of Waterville, Abbot of Peterborough; with regular priests or brethren until after 1323; appears to have claimed itself to be Cistercian before 1268; dissolved 1536 | St Mary and St Michael ____________________ Stamford Baron Priory; Stamford St Michael's Priory | |
Stamford St Sepulchre Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular — Holy Sepulchre founded c.1170(?) until before 1189; Augustinian Canons Regular under patronage of Peterborough from before 1189; hospital founded, continuing until after 1227 | ||
Stonely Priory $ | possibly initially a hospital Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1180 by William de Mandeville (according to Leland, but more likely William, Earl of Essex, possibly hospital until after 1220; dissolved 1536; leased to Oliver Leder of Great Staughton in 1538; granted to him and his wife Frances 1544 | The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Stonely | |
Swaffham Bulbeck Priory | Benedictine nuns founded c.1150-63 by Isabel the Bolebec; dissolved 1536; granted to the Thomas Goodrich, Bishop of Ely 1538/9 | The Nunnery of Saint Mary, Swaffham ____________________ Swaffham Nunnery; Swafam Nunnery | |
Swavesey Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on St Serge Abbey, Angers: granted by Count Alan Rufus; founded before 1086; granted to the Carthusians of Coventry 1411; a private residence named 'The Priory' is supposedly situated on or near the site | St Andrew | |
Thirling Cell | Augustinian Canons Regular — grange or cell | Thirling Priory | |
Thorney Abbey + | anchorites or hermits before 972; Benedictine monks founded 972 by the first abbot of Peterborough; dissolved 1539; granted to John, Earl of Bedford 1549/50; church now in parochial use | The Priory Church of Saint Mary and Saint Botulph, Thorney | |
Trokenholt Priory | hermitage Benedictine monks cell dependent on Thorney; founded 1154-69 (during the reign of Henry II): hermitage and chapel granted to Thorney by Nigel, Bishop of Ely; dissolved 14th century(?) | ||
Waterbeach Abbey | Franciscan nuns founded 1294 by Denise Munchensey; gradually removed to Denny 1351 due to flooding; dissolved 1351 | The Nunnery of the Piety of Our Lady and Saint Clare The Nunnery of Our Lady of Pity and Saint Clare | |
Whittlesey Mere Friary | hermit friars; apparently not Austin friars; uncertain order and foundation, no further reference | ||
Wittering Priory | order and foundation unknown — priory recorded extant 1308; reference to documentary evidence of its existence 1273 possibly refers to Southorpe Hospital |
The following locations in Cambridgeshire lack known monastic connections:
- Barnwell Priory Abbey: (The Church of Saint Andrew-the-Less, Barnwell), built adjacent to former Priory Church, called 'The Abbey Church'
- Buckden Abbey: Elizabethan mansion
Cheshire
[edit](For references and location detail see List of monastic houses in Cheshire ) [8]
Foundation | Image | Communities & Provenance | Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names | |
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Barrow Camera (?) | Knights Hospitaller church granted by Robert de Bachepuz; considered to be a confusion with Barrow Camera in Derbyshire | Great Barrow Camera | ||
Birkenhead Priory | Historical county location. See entry under Merseyside | |||
Bromborough Priory | Historical county location. See entry under Merseyside | |||
Chester Abbey + | tradition of very early foundation disputed ?nuns founded before 875; destroyed? in raids by the Danes 875; secular canons founded after 907, traditionally by Æthelflæd, daughter of King Alfred; Benedictine monks refounded as an abbey 1092/3 by Hugh I, Earl of Chester; dissolved 1540; granted 1534/5; episcopal diocesan cathedral founded 1541; extant | The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Chester (-875) The Abbey Church of Saint Werburgh, Chester The Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, Chester (1541) | ||
Chester Abbey | secular canons? founded 689; destroyed? in raids by the Danes after 875; secular canons with associated anchorite cell; (?re)founded c.906-7?; part of the college of St John the Baptist; dissolved 1547; briefly episcopal diocesan cathedral, then co-cathedral with Coventry ?1072/5 until 1102; in parochial use from 1102 | The Abbey Church of Saint John the Baptist, Chester The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Baptist, Chester (1072/5-1102) | ||
Chester Blackfriars | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Oxford) founded before 1236 by Alexander Stavensby, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield; dissolved 1538; granted to John Coke of London February 1544; site came into the possession of the Dutton family 1561 | |||
Chester Franciscan Friary, earlier site | Capuchin Franciscan Friars — from Pantasaph, Wales founded 21 December 1858 transferred to new site 1862 (see immediately below) | |||
Chester Franciscan Friary * | Capuchin Franciscan Friars — from Pantasaph, Wales founded 21 December 1858 at earlier site (see immediately above) transferred to new site 1862; church opened 29 April 1875; extant | St Francis | ||
Chester Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Worcester) founded 1237/8 (1238–40) by Albert of Pisa; dissolved 1537 (15 August 1538); granted to John Coke | |||
Chester Friars of the Sack | Friars of the Sack founded before 1274; dissolved 1284; community probably died out before 1300 | |||
Chester — St Michael's Monastery | uncertain order founded before 1162; Parish Church of St Michael, built 15th century; rebuilt by James Harrison 1849–50, currently in use as a Heritage Centre | St Michael | ||
Chester Whitefriars | Carmelite Friars founded 1279 (or before 1277) by Thomas Stadham; precinct granted 1289 to build their house; dissolved 15 August 1538; granted to John Coke (Cokkes) | |||
Chester Priory, earlier site | Benedictine? nuns founded before 1066; dissolved before c.1140; refounded on new site (see immediately below) | St Mary | ||
Chester Priory # | Benedictine nuns (community founded at earlier site (see immediately above) before 1066); transferred here refounded c.1140 by Ranulph de Gernon (Randal), Earl of Chester; dissolved 1537 (c.1540(?)); granted to Urian Brereton and son; site excavated prior to construction of County Police Headquarters on site 1964 | The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Chester | ||
Combermere Abbey | Savignac monks — from Savigny founded 3 November 1133 by Hugh de Malbane, Lord of Nantwich; Cistercian monks orders merged 17 September 1147; dissolved 1538; granted to William Cotton, Esq. | The Abbey Church of Saint Mary and Saint Michael, Combermere | ||
Curzon Park Abbey *, Chester | Benedictine nuns (community founded at Talacre, Wales, 1868); transferred from Talacre 1988; extant | The Abbey Church of Our Lady Help of Christians, Curzon Park, Chester | ||
Darnhall Abbey | Cistercian monks — from Abbey Dore, Herefordshire founded 14 January 1271 to February 1274 by Edward I; transferred to new site at Vale Royal 1281 | The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Darnhall | ||
Hilbre Island | Historical county location. See entry under Merseyside | |||
Mobberley Priory # | Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1203-4 (c.1206) by Patrick of Mobberley; annexed as a cell dependent on Rocester, Staffordshire 1228–40; manor house built on site 1625 (replacing earlier, ruinous house) | The Priory Church of Saint Mary and Saint Wilfrid, Mobberley ____________________ Modberley Priory | ||
Norton Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular (community founded at Runcorn c.1115); transferred from Runcorn 1134 by William FitzWilliam third Baron of Halton; raised to abbey status 1391 (1422) (early in the reign of Henry VI or sooner); dissolved 1536; granted to Richard Brooke; part converted into private mansion 1545; demolished 1928; now in ownership of Norton Priory Museum Trust open to public as a museum | The Priory Church of Saint Mary at Norton ____________________ Norton Abbey | ||
Poulton Abbey | Savignac monks — from Combermere site granted to Combermere 1146; Cistercian monks orders merged 17 September 1147; founded 1153 by Robert, butler to Ranulf II, Earl of Chester; building possibly completed 12 May 1158; transferred to new site at Dieulacres, Staffordshire 1214 due to incursions by the Welsh; subsequently re-used as a monastic grange with chapel; dissolved; granted to William Cotton, Esq. (Sir George Cotton) c.1544; ruinous before 1672; demolished before 1718 | St Mary and St Benedict ____________________ Pulton Priory; Pulton Abbey | ||
Runcorn Priory | supposed monastic house founded c.912 by Æthelflaed of Mercia; Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1115 by William FitzNigel second Baron of Halton; transferred to new site at Norton 1134; possibly on site now occupied by All Saints parish church | St Mary and St Bertelin | ||
Saighton Grange | Benedictine monks mainly agricultural grange converted to residential grange of the abbots of Chester 15th century; monastic site, apart from gatehouse, demolished 1861; house built on site; converted into a school named 'Abbey Gate College' 1977 | |||
Stanlow Abbey | Cistercian monks — from Combermere; founded 11 November 1172 by John FitzRichard, Constable and sixth Baron of Halton; transferred to new site at Whalley, Lancashire 1296; retained in use as a cell/grange dependent on Whalley from c.1350(?) until 1442; dissolved 1442?; granted to Sir Robert Cotton, Kt. c.1553; no substantial remains, site inaccessible | The Blessed Virgin Mary ____________________ Locus Benedictus de Stanlawe; Stanlaw Abbey; Stanlawe Abbey | ||
Stanney Grange | Cistercian monks grange with resident monk, dependent on Stanlow and Whalley, Lancashire; founded 1172 | Cow Worth Grange | ||
Vale Royal Abbey | Cistercian monks (community founded at Darnhall 14 January 1274 to 1277); transferred from Darnhall 1281; never completed; a project of Edward I; dissolved 1545; granted to Thomas Holcroft c.1543 | Saint Mary the Virgin, Saint Nicholas and Saint Nicasius ____________________ Valeroyal Abbey | ||
Warrington Austin Friars | Augustinian Friars (under the Limit of Lincoln) founded before 1272? (built 1379?) on the site of an earlier hospital; dissolved 1539; granted to Thomas Holcroft 1540/1; church continued in use until 17th century | |||
Warburton Priory | Historical county location. See entry under Greater Manchester |
Cornwall
[edit](For references and location detail see List of monastic houses in Cornwall )
Foundation | Image | Communities and provenance | Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names |
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Altarnon Monastery | probable monastery before 1066 | Altarnun Monastery | |
Bodmin — Abbey of St Mary & St Petroc* | Augustinian Canons Regular (Canons Regular of the Lateran) founded 1881; raised to abbey status 1953 | ||
Bodmin Blackfriars | probable mistaken reference to Bodmin Greyfriars | ||
Bodmin Greyfriars # | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Bristol) founded before 1260; dissolved 1538 | Bodmin Greyfriars | |
Bodmin Priory + | Celtic monks abbey? purportedly founded 6th century by St Petroc; Benedictine? monks refounded 936; nuns? dissolved c.1113; monks or secular dissolved c.1124; Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1124; dissolved 27 February 1538; buildings destroyed apart from the parish church, in parochial use as Church of England parish church; church in use for secular and industrial purposes post-dissolution | Bodmin Monastery; Bodmin Abbey | |
Breage Grange | Cistercian monks grange dependent on Hailes, Gloucestershire; founded c.1300 | ||
Cardinham Grange # | purported medieval monastery | ||
Constantyne Monastery | Celtic monks | ||
Crantock Monastery | Celtic monks probably founded by a St Carrock; secular before 1066; recorded extant 1086; secular canons collegiate refounded 1236; dissolved 1549 | St Corontocus ____________________ St Karentoc's Monastery | |
Dingerein Monastery | Celtic monks | Dinurrin Monastery | |
Gulval Monastery | Celtic monks founded by St Gudwall (Wolvela), from Wales | Dinurrin Monastery | |
Kea Monastery, Old Kea | Celtic monks supposed site of monastery recorded extant 1086 | St Cheus Monastery; Old Kea Monastery | |
Lammana Priory, Looe Island | Benedictine monks founded 6th century; Benedictine monks cell dependent on Glastonbury and chapel; founded before 1114; disposed of by Glastonbury between 1239 and 1329; chantry chapel of the Dawnay family before 1329; dissolved 1549 | The Priory Church of St Michael, Lammana ____________________ Lammana Chapel | |
Lansallos Monastery | Celtic monks patronised by St Ildierna | St Salwys (St Alwys)[citation needed] | |
Lannachebran Cell, St Keverne | monks founded c.6th century under the tutelage of St Achebran; secular collegiate refounded before 1086; Cistercian monks grange dependent on Beaulieu, Hampshire; founded before 1263; dissolved 1527; granted to Francis, Earl of Bedford 1559/60 | St Keiran's Monastery; St Keverne's Monastery; Lanachebran Monastery | |
Launcells Priory | Celtic monks secular at Norman Conquest Augustinian Canons Regular | ||
Launceston Friary(?) | Friars | ||
Launceston Priory, earlier site | monks or secular founded before c.830; secular canons to c.1126 | ||
Launceston Priory + | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1127; dissolved 1539; restored 1871; in parochial use as the Church of St Thomas the Apostle | ||
Lanwethinoc Monastery~, Padstow | Celtic monks founded by Bishop Wethinoc; site possibly occupied by the medieval Church of St Petroc at Padstow | Lanuthinoc Monastery; St Petroc's Church; Petroc-stow Monastery; Padstow Monastery | |
Madron Monastery | Celtic monks before 12th century | ||
Manaccan Monastery | Celtic monks | ||
Mawgan in Pydar Franciscan Monastery * | Franciscan monks | The Franciscan Monastery of St Joseph and St Anne, St Mawgan in Pydar | |
Minster Priory + | Celtic monks? founded before 1066; Benedictine monks alien house: daughter house of the Abbey of St. Sergius, Angers founded before 1190 by William de Bottreaux; dissolved before 1407; slight remains of priory near the medieval parochial church | The Priory Church of Saint Materiana, Minster St Mertherian ____________________ Talcarne Priory; Minster Cell | |
Paul Grange | Cistercian monks grange(?) dependent on Hailes, Gloucestershire; founded c.1300(?) | ||
Probus Monastery | Celtic monks or secular founded 924, purportedly by King Athelstan; dissolved 940; secular canons collegiate founded before 1086 (or during the reign of Henry I, who granted the church to Exeter Cathedral 1120); dissolved 1549 | ||
Rialton Grange # | Augustinian Canons Regular chief manor or grange of Bodmin; manor house built 15th century | Rieltone Grange | |
St Anthony's Monastery, St Anthony-in-Meneage | Celtic monks Benedictine monks alien house: grange of St-Serge, Angers; founded from Brittany?; became parochial after 1066; became a grange of Tywardreath before mid-12th century (though referred to as a cell); founded after 1088; dissolved after 1381 | Lantenning Monastery | |
St Anthony-in-Roseland Priory ^ | Augustinian Canons Regular priory cell dependent on Plympton, Devon founded before 1288; dissolved 1538; remains incorporated into house named 'Place House' built on site 16th Century | St Anthony-in-Roseland Cell | |
St Buryan's Monastery, St Buryan | Celtic monks secular collegiate founded c.930, purportedly by King Athelstan; dissolved 1545; parish church (SS Andrew, Thomas the Martyr, Nicholas and Beriana) on site rebuilt 13th century, though mostly now 15th century | ||
St Carrok's Monastery #, St Winnow | Celtic monks dissolved/destroyed before 1086?: seized by Robert, Count of Mortain; Cluniac monks alien house: cell dependent on Montacute, Somerset; founded 1100-40: granted to Montacute by William, son of Robert c.1100; became denizen: independent from 1407; dissolved 1537; granted to Laurence Courtney 1534/5 | St Carroc Monastery; St Syriac's Monastery; St Cyricus and St Julitta's Monastery; St Cadix's Monastery; St Syriac's Cell | |
St German's Priory + | Celtic monks possibly founded 7th century; secular canons episcopal diocesan cathedral founded c.936; see transferred to new site at Crediton, Devon 1042; monks or secular founded 1042; Augustinian Canons Regular refounded 1184 (1161-87); dissolved 2 March 1539; granted to Catherine Champernoun, John Ridgeway and others 1541/2; now in use as parish church; remains of claustral buildings incorporated into Port Eliot House | The Priory Church of Saint German, Saint Germans | |
St Goran's Monastery, St Goran | Celtic monks founded 6th century; patronised by St Goran in the time of St Petroc; dissolved after 1083; church and lands granted to the college of Glasney 1269 | ||
St Kew Cell ~ | monks founded 6th century (in the time of St Samson); purported Augustinian cell secular minster status confirmed by King Edgar, who granted land to the minster 961-3; secular collegiate clerks or secular canons until 1283; Augustinian Secular Canons — from Plympton, Devon until before 1283 church rebuilt 1496 and restored 1883 | St Daw (or St Docco) Saint Kew (from 1440) | |
St Matthew's Monastery | uncertain order and foundation | ||
St Mawgan Monastery + | Celtic monks lands passed to the Bishop before 1085; Cluniac monks; Carmelite convent possibly built on site 16th century | Lanherne Monastery; St Mawgan in Pydar Monastery | |
St Michael's Mount Priory + | Saxon Benedictine? monks 8th century-11th century; Benedictine monks founded 1087-90; church consecrated 1135; alien house: dependent on Mont-St-Michel, Normandy granted by Edward the Confessor to Mont-St-Michel before 1050; seized during wars with the French 1362; dissolved c.1414; granted by Henry VI to King's College, Cambridge; granted by Edward IV to Syon Abbey; used alternately as fortress and monastery and private residence with public access; (NT) | ||
St Neot's Monastery, St Neot | Celtic monks founded 6th century?; dissolved after 1084 | Saint Aniet | |
St Piran's Monastery, Perranzabuloe | Celtic monks founded 6th century?; dissolved before c.1085 | ||
Saltash Monastery | uncertain order and foundation | ||
Scilly Priory | Celtic monks, monastic cells founded before 1066; Benedictine monks cell dependent on Tavistock, Devon; founded before 1114; dissolved c.1538; Tresco Abbey Gardens created by Augustus Smith around the priory remains in 1834 | The Priory Church of St Nicholas, Scilly ____________________ Tresco Cell | |
Sclerder Abbey + | Dames de la Retraite founded c.1843; dissolved 1852; Franciscan Recollects founded 1858; dissolved 1864; Carmelite founded 1864; dissolved 1871; Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary founded 1904; dissolved 1910; Minoresses — from Rennes 1914-1920; Minoresses — from Bullingham 1922-1981; Franciscan c.1925; Carmelite — from Quidenham 1981-2014; Chemin Neuf 2014-; extant | ||
Sele Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on St-Florent-de-Saumur; founded before 1126; dissolved 1396 | ||
Temple property + | Knights Templar Knights Hospitaller | ||
Temple Templars Preceptory # | Knights Templar founded 12th century; dissolved 1308-12; asserted to have become a preceptory of Knights Hospitallers | ||
Tintagel Monastery | remains interpreted as Celtic monastic dependent on Bodmin; founded c.350; popular tradition as medieval Benedictine nunnery: evidence lacking; Norman castle built on site; current academic consensus regards earlier settlement as secular | ||
Trebeigh Preceptory # | Knights Templar (purportedly); Knights Hospitaller founded before 1199 "by the bounty of" Henry de Pomeral and Reginald Marsh; united with Ansty before 1432; dissolved after 1557/8; granted to Henry Wilby and George Blythe 1573/4 | Treleigh Preceptory; Turleigh Preceptory | |
Tregonan Cell, St Ewe | Celtic monks dependent on St Keverne's Monastery founded 6th century; dissolved 11th century | ||
Tregonan Grange | Cistercian monks grange of Beaulieu, Hampshire founded before 1263; dissolved before 1527; "considerable remains" existing 1755 have since disappeared | St Keverne Grange | |
Tregony Priory ~ | Augustinian Canons Regular alien house: priory cell dependent on Le Val, Bayeux; founded before 1125(?); granted to Merton, Surrey 1267 | The Priory Church of St James, Tregony ____________________ Tregoney Priory | |
Truro — Convent of the Epiphany ^ | Community of the Epiphany, Anglican | ||
Truro Blackfriars | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of London) founded before 1259 (during the reign of Henry III) by the Reskimer family; (church consecrated 1259-60); dissolved 1538; granted to Edward Anglianby 1553/4 | ||
Tywardreath Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: daughter house of St-Serge, Angers founded c.1088 by Richard fitz Turold, Lord of Cardinham Castle, chief baron of Cornwall (or 1169 "by some noblemen", or 1135); became denizen: independent c.1400; dissolved 1536; granted to Edward, Earl of Hertford 1542/3 | St Andrew ____________________ Truwardraith Priory |
Cumbria
[edit](For references and location detail see List of monastic houses in Cumbria ) [9][10]
Foundation | Image | Communities & Provenance | Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names | |
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Appleby Whitefriars # | Carmelite Friars founded 1281 (c.1290-3) by Lords Vescy, Percy, and Clifford; dissolved 1539 | |||
Armathwaite Nunnery | Benedictine nuns founded before 1200 (6 January 1089 dubiously purported), endowed by William Rufus; dissolved 1537; granted to William Gryme or Carleil 1552/3 | (church dedicated to Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary) ____________________ Armethwaite Nunnery | ||
Bleatarn Grange | Cistercian monks grange dependent on Byland, Yorkshire; founded during the reign of Henry II | |||
Calder Abbey | Savignac monks — from Furness; founded 10 January 1135-1137 by Ranulf Meschin, first Lord of Cumberland; community released from jurisdiction of Furness to that of Savigny; establishment ruined; transferred to Hood 1138; Savignac monks — from Furness; refounded c.1142-3, rebuilt; Cistercian monks orders merged 17 September 1147; dissolved 1536; granted to Thomas Leigh 1538/9; now in private ownership without public access | Caldre Abbey | ||
Carlisle Cathedral Priory + | purported monastery of monks and nuns founded 686 on land granted by Ecgfrith, King of Northumbria; destroyed in raids by the Danes c.875; rebuilt before 1092 by William Rufus and Walter, a Norman priest; secular canons from before 1092; Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1122 and built by Henry I; Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian(?) 1133; dissolved 1540: last prior appointed as first dean of the cathedral; episcopal diocesan cathedral founded 1133; extant | The Priory Church of the Holy Trinity, Carlisle The Cathedral Church of The Holy and Undivided Trinity, Carlisle (1133) ____________________ Carlilse Priory | ||
Carlisle Blackfriars | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of York) founded (before?) 1233 outside the city walls, but ordered to be demolished for a highway; moved 1237; dissolved 1539 | |||
Carlisle Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Newcastle) founded 1233; church destroyed by fire in 1292 and rebuilt; dissolved 1539 | |||
Cartmel Priory + | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1189/94 by William Marshall, Baron of Cartmel and Earl of Pembroke; dissolved 1536/7; granted to John Holcroft 1540/1; church now in parochial use | Kertmel Priory | ||
Chapel-le-Wood Cell | Premonstratensian Canons cell dependent on Cockersand | |||
Conishead Priory ^, Ulverston | originally a hospital founded 1160 (after 1154); Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1188 (before 1181) by Gamel de Pennington (or William de Lancaster II); still occupied by canons at 16 October 1536; country house named 'Conishead Priory' built on site: and currently the home of the Buddhist Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre | The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Conishead ____________________ Conisheved Priory | ||
Dacre Abbey | monks founded before 731; destroyed c.875 by Vikings; refounded before 926; Parish Church of St Andrew built to the south of the site | |||
Furness Abbey | Savignac monks — from Tulketh (Lancashire) dependent on Savigny; (founded 4 July 1124 at Tulketh by Stephen, Count of Boulogne); transferred from Tulketh 1126 (1124-7); Cistercian monks orders merged 17 September 1147; dissolved 1537; granted to Thomas Cromwell; (EH) | Furnes Abbey | ||
Hawkshead Grange | Cistercian monks grange of Furness; founded c.1160; 17th century Hawkshead Old Hall incorporates remains of grange; currently in use as a farmhouse | |||
Holmcultram Abbey +, Abbeytown | Cistercian monks — from Melrose, Scotland founded 30 December 1150 by Henry, son of David, King of Scotland; dissolved 1538; church in parochial use until destroyed in an arson incident 9 June 2006; roof and plasterwork replaced; restoration ongoing, church in use again (2012) | Holm Cultram Abbey; Holme Cultram Abbey | ||
Holme Eden Abbey | Benedictine nuns removed from Fort Augustus, Invernessshire 1921; dissolved 1983; formerly Holme Eden Hall; altered for use as a nursing home | Priory of Saint Scholastica | ||
Kirkby Lonsdale | Benedictine monks manor of St Mary's Abbey, York — incorrectly asserted to have been a cell | |||
Kirkby Stephen | Benedictine monks estate of St Mary's Abbey, York — incorrectly asserted to have been a cell | |||
Lanercost Priory + | Augustinian Canons Regular — possibly from Pentney, Norfolk founded c.1166 (or 1169) by Robert de Villibus, Lord of Gilleisland; dissolved 1537; granted to Thomas Lord Dacre part converted into private house named 'Dacre Hall' church now in parochial use; (EH) | The Priory Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Lanercost | ||
Nunnery near Kirkoswald | Benedictine nuns house named 'Nunnery House' built on site | |||
Penrith Friary | Augustinian Friars (under the Limit of York) founded c.1291; dissolved 1539; house named 'The Friarage' built on site 1717 | |||
Preston Patrick (?)Abbey | Premonstratensian Canons daughter house of Cockersand; founded after 1192(?); transferred to Shap before 1201; house named 'Challons Hall' built on or near site | The Abbey Church of Saint Mary Magdelene, Preston Patrick ____________________ Preston Abbey | ||
Ravenstonedale Priory | Gilbertine Canons founded before c.1200; dissolved 1539(?); Parish Church of St Oswald built immediately to the south of the site | Ravenstonedale Cell | ||
St Bees Priory + | nuns cell? founded before c.640?, during the reign of King Oswald by Bega; brief existence; transferred to Hartlepool, Northumbria (County Durham); or founded after 850 (c.900) by Bega — possible brief existence, though more likely an anchorites cell; Benedictine monks daughter house of St Mary's, York; founded not before c.1120 by William Meschin, on site of earlier church (c.900?); dissolved 16 October 1539; granted to Sir Thomas Challoner 1553/4; church now in parochial use | The Priory Church of SS Mary and Bega, Saint Bees, Saint Bees Priory ____________________ St Bee's Priory | ||
St Constantine's Cells | Benedictine monks three cells, hermitage dependent on Wetheral; founded before 1112; | |||
Seaton Priory | Benedictine nuns daughter house of Nunburnholme, Yorkshire; founded c.1190-1200 by Henry Kirby; independent from after 1313; dissolved 1540; granted to Hugh Askue 1541/2; site now occupied by farmhouse named 'Seaton Hall' | Nunnery of Leakly, in Seaton; Seton Priory; Lekeley Priory | ||
Shap Abbey | Premonstratensian Canons daughter house of Cockersand; (community founded at Preston Patrick before 1192(?)); transferred 1201 (1199), built (during the reign of Henry II) by Thomas Fitz Gospatrick; dissolved 1540; granted to Thomas Lord Wharton 1544/5; (EH) | Hepp Abbey | ||
Wetheral Priory | Benedictine monks — from St Mary's, York dependent on York; founded 1106 by Ranulph Meschin, Earl of Cumberland; dissolved 20 October 1538; granted 1541/2 | The Priory Church of Saint Constantine, Wetheral The Priory Church of the Holy Trinity, Saint Mary and Saint Constantine, Wetheral ____________________ Wetherall Priory |
Derbyshire
[edit](For references and location detail see List of monastic houses in Derbyshire ) [11]
Foundation | Image | Communities & Provenance | Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names | |
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Barrow Camera ^? | Knights Hospitaller founded before 1189: church granted by Robert de Bakepuze; probably not inhabited by brothers for long periods; annexed to Yeaveley before 1433; remains possibly incorporated into Arleston House built on site 16th/17th century | |||
Beauchief Abbey | Historical county location. See entry under South Yorkshire | |||
Bradbourne Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular cell? dependent on Dunstable, Bedfordshire founded 1238: granted by Geoffrey de Cauceis; dissolved ? | Church of All Saints, Bradbourne | ||
Breadsall Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded between 1220 and 1266; (erroneous ref. to Friars Eremites (Austin Friars) in records of 1266); dissolved 1536; granted to Henry, Duke of Suffolk 1552; 13th-century arch retained in the basement of Elizabethan mansion built on site, became hotel and golf club 'Marriott Breadsall Priory Hotel' 1980 | The Priory Church of the Holy Trinity, Breadsall ____________________ Brisoll Priory; Bredsall Park | ||
Calke Priory # | Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1131/before 1129-39 or 1130-6/before 1161 by Maud, widow of the Earl of Chester; transferred to Repton 1153–1172; dissolved 1538; granted to John, Earl of Warwick 1547; mansion named 'Calke Abbey' built on site | The Priory Church of Saint Giles, Calke ____________________ Calke Cell | ||
Dale (Stanley Park) Abbey, Deepdale | hermitage 12th century Augustinian Canons Regular dependent on Calke; cell founded 1153-8 by Serlo de Grendon; canons recalled to Calke c.1184; Premonstratensian Canons from Tupholme, Lincolnshire; founded ?c.1185; canons recalled to Tupholme c.1192; canons transferred from Welbeck, Nottinghamshire c.1196; canons transferred from Newsham (Newhouse), Lincolnshire c.1200; avoided suppression 1536 by payment of substantial fine; dissolved 24 October 1538 | The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Dale ____________________ Stanley Park Abbey; (De Parco Stanley); Le Dale Abbey | ||
Darley Priory ^ | Augustinian Canons Regular daughter house of St Helen's, Derby; founded c.1146 by Robert de Ferraris (Ferrers), Earl of Derby: transferred from St Helen's; dissolved 22 October 1538; granted to Sir William West 1540/1; house named 'Darley Park' built on site 18th century, demolished 1962; a monastic building (probably the priory guest house) is now 15th century Darley Abbey public house — 'Old Abbey Inn'; partly 15th-century cottage at 7 Abbey Lane may incorporate monastic remains | The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Darley ____________________ Darley Abbey; Little Derby Friary; Little Dirby Friary | ||
Derby Blackfriars | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Oxford) founded before 1239; dissolved 3 January 1539; occupied by an 18th-century Friary Hotel built on site; converted into a public house 1996; currently in use as a nightclub | The Annunciation | ||
Derby — King's Mead Priory | Benedictine nuns founded 1149-59 (c.1160) by the abbess of Derby; dissolved 1536; granted to Francis, Earl of Shrewsbury 1543/4; site now occupied by a 16th/17th-century building | St Mary ____________________ De Pratis Priory | ||
Derby Priory (Augustinian) | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1137 by Towyne, a burgess of Derby; most of the monks transferred to Darley c.1146; reduced to cell 1154; became a hospital 1160; ceased before 1360 | The Priory Church of Saint Helen, Derby | ||
Derby Priory (Cluniac) | Cluniac monks alien house: priory cell dependent on Bermondsey, Surrey (Greater London); founded before 1140; granted to Bermondsey by Waltheof, son of Sweyn; accidentally destroyed by fire; rebuilt c.1335; became denizen: independent from 1395; dissolved 1536; | The Priory Church of Saint James, Derby | ||
Gresley Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1135-40 by William de Greisley (or Fitz-Nigel); dissolved 1536; granted to Henry Cruche 1543/4; nave of the priory church in use as parochial church of Church Gresley | The Priory Church of Saint Mary and Saint George, Gresley ____________________ Church Gresley Priory; Greisley Priory | ||
Lees Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular ?cell dependent on Rocester, Staffordshire; founded before c.1160?; dissolved after 1517? | Leyes Priory | ||
Locko Preceptory | St. Lazarus Hospitallers and Leper Hospital founded c.1297; dissolved 1375 | The Hospital of Saint Mary Magdalene ____________________ Lockhay Preceptory | ||
Repton Priory ^+ | Anglo-Saxon monks and nuns — double monastery founded before 660 traditionally by St David; destroyed in raids by the Danes 874; Augustinian Canons Regular — from Calke founded c.1153-9; rebuilt 1172 by Maud, widow of Ranulph, Earl of Chester; dissolved 25 October 1538; remains incorporated into Repton School buildings (founded 1557); St Wystan's Church on site incorporates substantial remains of the Anglo-Saxon foundation | St Wystan The Priory Church of the Holy Trinity, Repton ____________________ Repingdon Priory | ||
Yeaveley Preceptory, Stydd | Knights Hospitaller founded c.1136 (or c.1190 or 1268?) by Ralph de Fun and Sir William Meynill; dissolved 1535 (1540); granted to Charles, Lord Montjoy 1543/4; remains incorporated into farmhouse; the Church of St Saviour was part of the Hospitallers' possessions | St Mary and St John the Baptist ____________________ Yeaveley and Barrow Preceptory; Stydd Preceptory; Stede Preceptory; Yeveley Preceptory; Yeaveley and Stydd Preceptory |
Devon
[edit](For references and location detail see List of monastic houses in Devon )
Foundation | Image | Communities & Provenance | Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names | |
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Allerton Cell | Benedictine hermits cell dependent on Tavistock | |||
Axminster Monastery ~ | Saxon monks or secular canons collegiate founded before 757 when Cyneheard the atheling was interred in the minster; secular canons collegiate founded c.936 by King Athelstan; made dependent on York, Yorkshire 1060 by Edward the Confessor; dissolved 1535; collegiate and parochial church of St Mary possibly built on site during the Norman period | |||
Axmouth Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: possible monastic grange, dependent on Montebourg; founded before 1387 (during the reign of Henry II) by Richard de Rivers, Earl of Devonshire; dissolved 1414; granted to Walter Erle (Earl) 1552 | |||
Barnstaple Priory | Cluniac monks alien house: daughter house of St-Martin-des-Champs, Paris founded c.1107 (before 1199) by Johel of Totness; became denizen: independent from 1403; dissolved 1535; granted to William, Lord Howard 1537/8 | The Priory Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Barnstaple The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin | ||
Barnstaple Austin Friary (?) | Augustinian Friars licensed 1348 and 1353 — apparently never established due to objection by the prior of the Cluniac house | |||
Burlescombe Priory ≈ | Augustinian Canons Regular recorded in the time of Richard I, (probably Canonsleigh Priory, in the parish of Burlescombe) | Burdlescombe; possibly Canonsleigh | ||
Bodmiscombe Preceptory | Knights Hospitaller founded after 1200(?) (possibly during the reign of Henry III); dissolved before 15th century?; apparently absorbed by Buckland 14th/15th century | Bothemescomb Preceptory | ||
Braunton Monastery | traditionally site of monastery purportedly founded 5th century by St Branock (Brynach of Nevern) | |||
Brightley Priory # | Cistercian monks — from Waverley, Surrey founded 3 May 1136 (or 1132, 1133 or 1138) by Richard fitz Baldwin de Brioniis, Lord of Okehampton and Sheriff of Devon; abandoned 1141; transferred to Forde, Dorset; site now occupied by Brightley Farm, where a building is possibly a monastic chapel | |||
Buckfast Monastery | Benedictine monks founded 1018 by Aylward, Duk; Buckfast Abbey (see immediately below) built on site | |||
Buckfast Abbey * | Savignac monks — from Savigny founded 27 April 1136 by Ethelwerd, son of William Pomerei; built on site of Benedictine monastery (see immediately above); Cistercian monks orders merged 17 September 1147; dissolved 1539; granted to Sir Thomas Dennys 1539/40; became ruinous Benedictine monks priory founded 1882, rebuilt 1884 to 1938 (church 1906 to 1938); raised to abbey status 1902; affiliated to the English Congregation 1960; extant | The Abbey Church of Our Lady, Buckfast ____________________ Buckfastre Abbey | ||
Buckland Abbey | Cistercian monks — from Quarr, Isle of Wight founded 1278 by Amicia, Countess of Devonshire; dissolved 1539; granted to Sir Richard Greynfeld (Grenville) 1541/2; converted into a mansion named the 'Cider House' by 1576; sold to Sir Francis Drake 1581; remained with that family to 1946; house granted to NT 1949 currently principally in use as a museum; (NT) | The Abbey Church of Saint Benedict, Buckland | ||
Canonsleigh Abbey ^ | On site of Leigh, in the parish of Burlescombe;[12] Augustinian Canons Regular — from Plympton? priory founded c.1161-1173 by Walter II de Claville,[12] (a descendant of the Domesday Book tenant Walter I de Claville), lord of the manor of Burlescombe; dissolved before 1285; Augustinian Canonesses abbey founded before 1285 by Maud, Countess of Devon; dissolved 1539; remains now incorporated into farm buildings | The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint John the Evangelist, Leigh (1161–1285) The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Etheldreda, Leigh (1285–1539) ____________________ Leigh Abbey; Canon's Leigh; Burlescombe Priory? (see above) | ||
Chudleigh Abbey | Brigittine nuns transferred from Spettisbury, Dorset 1887; transferred to Marley House, Rattery (now Syon Abbey) 1925 | The Abbey Church of Saint Bridget of Syon, Chudleigh | ||
Churchill Monastery | uncertain order and foundation | |||
Cornworthy Priory | Augustinian Canonesses founded 1205/1238 by the Edgecomb family; dissolved 1539; granted to Edward Harris and John Williams 1560 | Court Prior | ||
Cove | Knights Hospitaller member of Bodmiscombe Preceptory | |||
Cowick Priory # | Benedictine monks alien house: cell dependent on Bec-Hellouin; founded 1144: granted as cell to Bec-Hellouin by William Fitz-Baldwin; became denizen: granted to Eton College 1451; granted to Tavistock after 1464; dissolved 1538 | The Priory Church of Saint Andrew, Cowick ____________________ Cowick Priory | ||
Crediton Monastery | monks founded 739; secular episcopal diocesan cathedral founded 909: see reputedly transferred from Bishops Tawton; see transferred to Exeter 1050; secular collegiate refounded 1050; dissolved 1548 | St Gregory (possibly) | ||
Dartmouth Austin Friars | Augustinian Friars (under the Limit of Oxford) (founded at Clifton in Dartmouth 1331); dissolved before 1348; church of St Petrox built on site 16th century | |||
Dartmouth Monastery | monks? uncertain order and foundation chapel of St Patrick in the Castle annexed as a cell to a "great abbey" | |||
Denbury Priory | Benedictine monks dependent on Tavistock; founded 1086; dissolved 1539; site now on Wrenwell Farm | Denbury Cell; Denbury Grange | ||
Dunkeswell Abbey | Cistercian monks daughter house of Forde, Dorset; founded 16 November 1201 by William Briwere; dissolved 1539; granted to John, Lord Russell 1534/5; site in multiple ownership, with the Holy Trinity parish chapel built on site 1842 | |||
Exeter Cathedral Priory + | founded ?before c.690; Benedictine? monks 932 (see immediately below) secular canons founded 1050; episcopal diocesan cathedral founded 1050: see transferred from Crediton; extant | The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Peter The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter | ||
Exeter Monastery | Saxon founded 868 by King Etheldred | |||
Exeter Monastery | Benedictine monks founded 932 by King Athelstan; monks repeatedly fled through Danish raids but recalled by Canute 1019 | |||
Exeter Nunnery (?) | Augustinian Canonesses supposedly founded c.968; purportedly rebuilt as the Deanery 15th century[13] Later sources deny its existence.[14] | |||
Exeter Priory (?) | Carthusian monks licence granted to Richard Stapleton 1331/2 to build and endow a monastery — apparently never established | |||
Exeter Blackfriars # | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of London) founded before 1232; dissolved 1538; house named 'Bedford House' built on site, demolished 1773 | Exeter Blackfriars | ||
Exeter Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars (under the Custody of Bristol) founded before 1240; transferred by Thomas Bitton (Bytten), Bishop of Exeter, to new site south of the South City Gate c.1292-1303 (see immediately below); dissolved 1538 | |||
Franciscan Friars (under the Custody of Bristol) transferred by Bishop Bytten from behind the North and West Gates c.1292-1303 (see immediately above) | ||||
Exeter — Polsloe Priory | Benedictine nuns founded before/c.1160: transferred from Oldbury, Warwickshire; dissolved 1536 (1538); granted to John, Earl of Warwick during the reign of Edward VI; largely demolished, remaining range converted into country house | The Priory Church of Saint Katherine, Polsloe ____________________ Polleshoo Priory | ||
Exeter — St James Priory # | Cluniac monks daughter house of the abbey of St Martin-in-the-fields, Paris; founded before 1143 (1141) by Baldwin de Redverus (Redvers/Rivers), Earl of Devon; dissolved; house built on site called 'The Old Abbey' | St James | ||
Exeter — St Nicholas Priory ^ | Benedictine monks — from Battle, Sussex founded 1087 by William the Conqueror; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir Thomas Denys 1540/1; private houses built on site 1820; monastic architecture restored; in ownership of Exeter Corporation 1913; open to public as a museum 1916; (closed for repair until 2008) | The Priory Church of Saint Nicolas, Exeter ____________________ Benedictine Priory of St Nicholas | ||
Exminster Monastery # | pre-conquest monastic or secular community founded 8th century | |||
Frithelstock Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded c.1220 by Sir Robert Beauchamp, Kt.; dissolved 1536; granted to Arthur Viscount Lisle 1537/8 | The Abbey Church of Saint Mary and Saint Gregory, Frithlestock ____________________ Frethelstoke Priory; Fristoke Priory | ||
Hartland Abbey | secular college founded before 1066 by Gytha, wife of Earl Godwin Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded 1161-9 (secular collegiate church of St Nectan and its endowments granted to Richard, Archdeacon of Poictiers by Geoffrey of Dinam; approved by Henry II and Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter); dissolved 21 February 1539; granted to William Abbot 1545/6; remains (cloisters) incorporated into house named 'Hartland Abbey' built on site | Hertland Abbey
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Indio Monastery | uncertain order and foundation | |||
Ipplepen Priory # | Augustinian Canons Regular alien house: cell, daughter house of St Pierre-Rille founded c.1143(?): church granted by the Fougères family to the priory, transferred from Notre-Dame-de-Fougères; dissolved c.1414; granted to Ottery St Mary 1438; house called 'The Priory' possibly built on site | |||
Ivybridge Priory + | Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary — from St. Quay 1910 Augustinian (Augustinian Recollect) founded 1932; closed 2016 with building now in parochial use;[15] originally 'Cadleigh House' | St Austin's Priory | ||
Kerswell Priory | Cluniac monks alien house: cell dependent on Montacute, Somerset; founded 1119–1129; became denizen: independent from 1407; dissolved 1538 or 1539; granted to John Etherege (Atherege) 1546/7; 16th century house built on site | Careswell Cell | ||
Leigh Cell | Sauvignac monks grange(?) dependent on Buckfast(?) founded c.1137(?); Cistercian monks orders merged 17 September 1147 | Leigh Grange | ||
Marsh Barton Priory # | Augustinian Canons Regular dependent on Plympton founded 1142; dissolved 1539 | St Mary St Mary de Marsh | ||
Modbury Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on St-Pierre-sur-Dives founded c.1140 by Sir Peter-sur-Dive, sic., or (purportedly) by a member of the Chambernoun family; extant 1430; dissolved c.1441; granted to Eton College by Edward VI; nominally reverted to Tavistock c.1461-67 | St George | ||
Newenham Abbey | Cistercian monks daughter house of Beaulieu, Hampshire founded 6 January 1246 or 1247 by Reginald de Mohun, Earl of Somerset; dissolved 1539; leased to the Duke of Suffolk; granted to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk 1562/3 | The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Newenham ____________________ Neuham Abbey | ||
Otterton Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: cell dependent on Mont-St-Michel, Normandy; founded before 1087 by the monks of Mont-St-Michel; dissolved 1414; subsequently granted to Syon Abbey; granted to Richard Duke at the dissolution of Syon 1539; part of claustral building converted into mansion | Otterington Priory | ||
Ottery St Mary Monastery | supposed pre-Conquest monastery ("disproved") | |||
Pilton Priory + | Benedictine monks founded ?before 12th century purportedly by King Athelstan (evidence lacking and disputed); dissolved 1539 | The Priory Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Pilton | ||
Plymouth — St Dunstan's Abbey | Sisters of the Most Holy Trinity founded by Priscilla Lydia Sellon with the support of the Henry Phillpott, Bishop of Exeter;[16] transferred to Berkshire 1906; property transferred to St Mary the Virgin at Wantage, who continued in use as St Dunstan Abbey School for Girls | The Abbey Church of Saint Dunstan, Plymouth; St Dunstan of Glastonbury | ||
Plymouth Blackfriars(?) | purported Dominican Friars founded 1431; site now occupied by the Black Friars Distillery; possible confusion with Greyfriars | |||
Plymouth Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars (under the Custody of Bristol) founded 1383; in private ownership 1513; dissolved 1538 | Plymouth Friary | ||
Plymouth Whitefriars # | Carmelite Friars founded before 1296–7; dissolved 1538 | |||
Plympton Priory | secular collegiate founded 904 (before 909); Augustinian Canons Regular church built on site 1121 by William Warlewas (Bishop of Exeter 1150-9); dissolved 1539 | The Priory Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Plympton | ||
St Michael's Monastery | Benedictine monks purported cell dependent on Malmesbury | St Michael | ||
Sidmouth Priory (Augustinian) (?) | purported foundation of Augustinian Canons Regular probable confusion with Benedictine founded (see immediately below) | |||
Sidmouth Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: cell or grange dependent on Mont St Michel founded 11th century: manor granted by William the Conqueror; dissolved 1414(?); Bridgettine monks grange of Syon Abbey c.1431; dissolved; remains incorporated in Marlborough Hotel | |||
Tavistock Abbey | Benedictine monks founded 961/974 (or 975-80) (begun by Ordgar, Earl of Devonshire and completed by his son); dissolved 1539; granted to John, Lord Russell 1539/40; mansion built on site, now 'The Bedford Hotel' | The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Rumon, Tavistock ____________________ Tavestock Abbey | ||
Teignmouth Abbey ^ | Benedictine nuns (founded at Dunkirk, Flanders 1662, daughter of Ghent) transferred from Hammersmith, London 1862; now divided up as private housing[17] | The Abbey Church of Saint Scholastica, Teignmouth | ||
Torre Abbey | Premonstratensian Canons — from Welbeck, Nottinghamshire founded 1196 by William Briwere; dissolved 1539; granted to Sir John St.Leger 1543/4; country house built on site, now in ownership of Torbay Corporation | Torr Abbey | ||
Totnes Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: cell dependent on St-Serge, Angers founded c.1088 by John Aluredi; became denizen: independent from before 1416; dissolved 1536; granted to Catherine Champernoun and others 1543/4; rebuilt priory church in parochial use, municipal buildings built on claustral site | |||
Totnes Trinitarian Priory | Trinitarian monks founded 1271; dissolved 1509 (suppressed to 1519); granted to the vicars of Exeter Cathedral 1519; seized by the Crown; returned to the vicars 16th century until 1801 | Little Totnes Priory; Werland Priory; Warland Priory | ||
Townstall Monastery, Dartmouth | supposed alien cell | |||
Yodby Monastery | uncertain order and foundation |
Dorset
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Foundation | Image | Communities & Provenance | Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names |
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Abbotsbury Abbey + | secular canons collegiate founded c.1026 by Orcus, steward to Canute; Benedictine monks — from Cerne; founded 1044 (during the reign of Edward the Confessor) by Orcius or by his widow Tola; dissolved 12 March 1539; granted to Sir Giles Strangwaies 1543/4; much in private ownership, partly in parochial use | The Abbey Church of Saint Peter ____________________ Abbotesbury Abbey; Abbodesbirig Abbey | |
Beaminster | pre-conquest monastic or secular community founded before 862 | Bebingmynster | |
Bindon Abbey | Cistercian monks — from Little Bindon dependent on Forde; founded 22 or 27 September 1172 by Robert de Burgo and his wife Maud; dissolved 1539; granted to Sir Richard Poynings 1540/1; now in private ownership | ||
Blackmoor Priory Hermitage | order and foundation uncertain hermitage in existence by 1300, with brothers apparently following a rule similar to Augustinian Friars; dissolved/abandoned, becoming a free chapel after 1424 | Hermitage | |
Bridport Whitefriars (?) | purported foundation for Carmelite Friars founded 1261; probably ceased to exist before 1365 | ||
Bridport Priory | order uncertain 13th century; converted into a residence named 'St Jones' | ||
Cerne Abbey ^, Cerne Abbas | monastic before 604 founded by St Augustine hermitage; secular ? 9th century; Benedictine monks founded before 987 by Engleward (Egelward); purportedly destroyed by Canute; dissolved 1539; granted to John Dudley and ___ Ascough 1574/5; remains now incorporated into private house | St Peter St Mary, St Peter and St Benedict St Edwold (St Athelwold) ____________________ Cernell Abbey | |
Charminster | pre-conquest monastic or secular community; parish church of St Mary (dating from 11th century) possible successor of minster on site | ||
Chilcombe Camera | Knights Hospitaller dissolved before 1308 | ||
Christchurch Priory + | tradition of very early monastery; secular canons collegiate founded before/c.1060; manor and church granted by Henry I to Richard de Redvers and Baldwin de Redvers, Earl of Devon; Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1150, by petition of Hilary, Bishop of Chichester, and the bishop of Winchester to Richard de Redvers; dissolved 28 November 1539; granted to Joseph Kirton 1545/6; on site of earlier church demolished 1094; priory church 1540, now in parochial use | The Priory Church of Christ, Christchurch Church of the Holy Trinity, Twyneham ____________________ Twyneham Priory; Twinham Priory | |
Cranborne Priory | tradition of early monastery Benedictine monks founded c.(?)980 by Haylward Snew (Aylward Sneaw (Snow)); becoming dependent on Tewkesbury (of which Cranborne was previously the mother house) in 11th century; abbot and 57 monks removed to Tewkesbury 1102, Cranborne reduced to priory status, becoming a cell dependent on Tewkesbury; dissolved 31 January 1540; granted to Thomas Francis 1559/60 | The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Bartholomew The Priory Church of The Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Bartholomew, Cranborne ____________________ Cranbourne Priory; Cranburn Cell | |
Dorchester Greyfriars # | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Bristol) founded before 1267 by "the ancestors of Sir John Chidiock"; dissolved 1538 (1536); granted to Sir Edmund Peckham 1543/4 | ||
Forde Abbey ^ | Cistercian monks daughter house of Waverley, Surrey; (community founded at Brightley, Devon 1136 or 1138) transferred from Brightley 1146/8?; dissolved 1539; claustral remains now incorporated a mansion with public access | ||
Frampton Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: daughter house of St-Etienne, Caen, Normandy; founded before 1077 by William the Conqueror; dissolved before 1414; granted to St Stephen's College, Westminster 1437; granted to Sir Christopher Hatton 1571/2, who sold it to John Brown, Esq. | ||
Fryer Mayne Preceptory | Knights Hospitaller founded before 1275; shared single preceptor with Baddesley 15th century; formally merged with Baddesley 1471; dissolved; granted to William Pole and Edward Downing 1563/4 | Friary Mayne Preceptory; Friar Mayne Preceptory; Freyer Mayne Preceptory; Mayne Preceptory; Mayne Ospitalis | |
Gillingham Friary | possible Dominican Friars founded c.1267: Henry II granted oak for repair of the Dominicans' church; no other reference | ||
Gillingham Minster | Saxon minster 19th century St Mary's Parish Church possibly on site | ||
Hilfield Friary * | Franciscan Friars founded 1921 in farm buildings; extant | The Friary of Saint Francis, Hilfield | |
Holme Priory | Cluniac monks alien house: dependent on Montacute founded 1142 (mid 12th century or c.1107) by Robert de Lincoln; became denizen: independent from 1407; dissolved 1539; granted to John Hannon 1547; parish church until 1746; mansion named 'Holme Priory House' built on site of remains | The Blessed Virgin Mary ____________________ East Holme Priory; Holne Priory; Holme Cell | |
Horton Priory | Benedictine monks abbey founded 961 (960 or (c.)970) by Ordgar, Earl of Devonshire or his son Ordulph (Edulph); probably destroyed in raids by the Danes 997; refounded c.1050; reduced to priory cell status 1122 under Henry I, dependent on Sherborne; dissolved 1539; granted to Edward, Duke of Somerset 1547; then to William, Earl of Pembroke; 18th-century church built on site of ruins of previous parochial church on the site of the priory | St Wolfrida ____________________ Horton Abbey; Horton Cell | |
Iwerne Minster | pre-conquest monastic or secular community; parish church of St Mary possible successor of minster on site | ||
Kingston Camera | Knights Hospitaller member of Fryer Mayne, with Stinsford church | ||
Little Bindon Abbey | Cistercian monks — from Forde founded 1149 by William de Glastonia; transferred to Bindon 1172; much of the masonry used in the construction of Lulworth Castle | ||
Loders Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: daughter house of St-Mary-de-Montebourg, Normandy founded c.1107 (during the reign of Henry I) by Richard Re Redveriis; Carthusian monks under the monastery of St Anne at Coventry 1399-1414; Priory Church now in parochial use; Brigetine nuns (under Syon, Isleworth) 1414 | St Mary Magdalen ____________________ Lodres Priory | |
Lulworth Abbey | Trappist monks — from Val Sainte, Switzerland founded 1795 by Mr Thomas Weld; raised to abbey status 1813; forced to leave England and returned to Melleray 1817 | The Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity, Lulworth | |
Lyme Friary (?) | Carmelite Friars — to be licensed to William Darre, chaplain — apparently never established | Lyme Regis Friary | |
Lytchett Minster | pre-conquest monastic or secular community | ||
Melcombe Priory, Melcombe Regis | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of London) founded 1418 by Rogers Esq. of Brianston; dissolved 1538; granted to Sir John Rogers 1543/4 | Milton Friary; Melcombe Regis Friary | |
Milton Abbey ^, Milton Abbas | secular college founded 938 (or 933) by King Athelstan; Benedictine monks founded 964; destroyed by fire 1309; rebuilt 1322; dissolved 1539; granted to Sir John Tregonwall 1539/40; restored 1789 and 1865; domestic remains incorporated into a mansion 1771; Abbey Church is owned by the Diocese of Salisbury but used by Milton Abbey School in term time as its chapel. The Abbey Church is open to the public and accessed through the school grounds. | The Priory Church of Saint Michael and Saint Mary, Milton The Abbey Church of The Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Samson and Saint Branwalader, Milton ____________________ Middleton Abbey | |
Muckleford Grange | possible Tironensian monks alien house: cell (grange?) dependent on Tiron; estate granted to Tiron Abbey, Normandy, de facto controlled by Andwell, Hampshire | ||
Piddletrenthide Priory | Benedictine monks cell dependent on Hyde Abbey, Hampshire founded unknown; dissolved 1354 (1345?); chapel demolished after 1382 | Piddletrenthide Cell | |
Poole — St George's Friary | Friars of St George — apparently a guild property | ||
Povington Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: grange: dependent on Bec-Hellouin; foundation date unknown, manor granted to Bec-Hellouin by Robert Fitz Gerold; dissolved 1230; reckoned to be a parcel of Ogbourne by 1291 | Povington Grange | |
Shaftesbury Abbey | Benedictine nuns founded c.888 by Alfred (or before 860 by Alfred, his father Æthelbald and brothers Æthelbert and Ethelred), possibly on site of 7th century Saxon minster (see immediately below); Benedictine nuns refounded during the reign of Edgar; dissolved 2 March 1539; granted to William, Earl of Southampton 1547/8; remains now within a walled garden | The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Shaftesbury The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Saint Edward, King and Martyr, Shaftesbury | |
Shaftesbury Minster | Saxon nuns possibly founded before c.670; destroyed? in raids by the Danes before 888; Benedictine nunnery possibly built on site (see immediately above) | ||
Shapwick Grange | purported priory order and foundation uncertain; acquired by the Carthusians at Sheen, Surrey (Greater London) after 1414; (limited corroboration for existence and status) | Shapwick Priory | |
Sherborne Abbey ^ | founded before 672: granted by Cenwealh, King of Wessex; Saxon minster and bishop's see secular episcopal diocesan cathedral priory founded 705; Benedictine monks cathedral priory refounded c.993; see transferred to Old Sarum between 1075 and 1078; raised to abbey status 1172; dissolved 18 March 1539; granted to Sir John Horsey 1546/7; church now in parochial use monastic buildings now incorporated into a public school | The Blessed Virgin Mary ____________________ Shireburn Abbey | |
Spettisbury Priory | Benedictine nuns alien house: cell dependent on St-Pierre-de-Préaux; founded before 1100 (during the reign of William II) by Robert de Bellomonte, Earl of Mallent (Count of Meulan) and Earl of Leicester; annexed to Toft Monks 1324; privately leased 1390; granted to Witham Priory by Henry V; dissolved 1535; granted to Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy 1543/4 | dedication unknown ____________________ Spetisbury Priory; Spectesbury Priory | |
St Monica's Priory, Spetisbury | Augustinian Canonesses Regular of the Windesheim Congregation 1800; Bridgettine Nuns 1861; Canons Regular of the Lateran 1887; Ursuline Nuns 1907-1926; sold at auction to Thomas Oakley 9 June 1927 | The Priory of Saint Monica, Spetisbury | |
Stour Provost Grange | Benedictine monks alien house: grange dependent on St-Leger, Preaux; founded c.1070; dissolved c.1471 | ||
Sturminster Marshall | pre-conquest monastic or secular community | ||
Sturminster Newton | pre-conquest monastic or secular community | ||
Tarrant Abbey | Anchoresses of "no order" founded c.1186; Cistercian nuns founded c.1100 by Richard Power, Bishop of Chichester (Richard le Poor of Salisbury), built by Ralph de Kahaynes; raised to abbey status before 1228; dissolved 13 March 1539; granted to Sir Thomas Wyat 1541/2; site now occupied by Abbey Farm; Tarrant Abbey House possibly incorporates remains of the abbey | St Mary and All Saints ____________________ Tarrant Crawford Abbey; Tarrant Kains Abbey; Tarrent Abbey; Tarrant Cell; possibly 'Camesterne' ('Camestrum') (St Mary Magdalene) | |
Wareham Nunnery | Benedictine? nuns alien house: daughter house of Lira, Normandy reputedly founded c.672 (late7th/early8th century); said to have been destroyed in raids by the Danes 876; traditionally refounded 915 by Elfleda; dissolved 997-8: again destroyed by the Danes; destroyed again 1015; monastic property in possession of St Wandrille Abbey (which held the minster) 1086; Benedictine priory built on site (see immediately below) | The Blessed Virgin Mary ____________________ monasterium of holy virgins | |
Wareham Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: cell dependent on Lyre Abbey, Normandy founded 12th century (during the reign of Henry I) by Robert, Earl of Leicester on site of earlier nunnery (see immediately above); ownership passed to Mount Grace, Yorkshire 1398; dissolved 1414; Carthusian monks granted to the Carthusians at Sheen, Surrey (Greater London) after 1414; dissolved 1536; granted to Thomas Reve and George Cotton; house named 'The Priory of Lady St Mary House' ('The Priory') built on site 16th century, possibly incorporates remains of the priory | Lady St Mary Priory ____________________ Warham Priory | |
West Lulworth Priory | Cistercian monks — from Forde founded 1149 (or 1171(?) by William de Glastonia); transferred to Bindon 1172; site close to 13th century Little Bindon chapel | ||
Wilcheswood Monastery | order uncertain founded 1373 by Roger le Walleys, lord of the manor of Langton Wallis; earliest dated charter 1295 (speculated to have followed Augustinian and Premonstratensian rules, or a small collegiate church); apparently dissolved 1536 | St Leonard ____________________ Wilcheswood Priory; Wilkswood Priory | |
Wimborne Minster | Benedictine? nuns and monks founded before 705 by Cuthburh; destroyed ? 998; converted into a college of secular canons before 1066; dissolved 1547; granted to Edward, Duke of Somerset 1547; then to Giles Keylway and William Leonard; then to Edward, Lord Clinton | St Cuthburga ____________________ Winburn Priory; Twinborn Priory | |
Winterborn Monkton Grange | Cluniac monks alien house: grange dependent on Cluny founded before 1214; dissolved c.1450 | Winterborn Grange; Winterborn Monckton | |
Yetminster | Saxon minster |
County Durham
[edit](For references and location detail see List of monastic houses in County Durham ) [20]
Foundation | Image | Communities & Provenance | Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names | |
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Barnard Castle Friary (?) | Augustinian Friars (under the Limit of York) founded 1381: licensed by Neville, Archbishop of York, land granted by Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick; possibly not established, but if so failed before 1387? | |||
Baxterwood Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular — possibly from Gisborough, Yorkshire via Haswell founded 1180; transferred from Haswell after 1180 (possibly before Haswell was built); dissolved 1196; lands appropriated by Finchale Priory | Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Baxterwood ____________________ Bactanesford Priory | ||
Bradbury Cell | Benedictine monks chapel and cell dependent on Nun Monkton, Yorkshire founded 12th century | |||
Clare Abbey, Darlington | Franciscan nuns — from Scorton Hall founded 1857, property granted by Sir Caranby Haggerston; transferred to Herefordshire, amalgamating with the house at Much Birch; Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God | The Abbey Church of Saint Clare, Darlington | ||
Durham Cathedral Priory + | secular canons episcopal diocesan cathedral founded 997 (995); extant; founded 995 (997), built by Bishop Aldhun; Benedictine monks founded 1093 (or 1083) by Bishop William of St Carileph, who expelled the seculars; dissolved 1539 | The Abbey Church of Saint Mary and Saint Cuthbert at Durham The Cathedral Church of Christ and Blessed Mary the Virgin, Durham | ||
Durham Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Newcastle) founded before 1239; dissolved before 1240(?), friars apparently settled at the chapel of St Mary, but on meeting with opposition transferred to Hartlepool | Hartlepool Friary | ||
Durham — St Anthony's Priory * | Minoresses founded at the former vicarage of St Nicholas Parish Church; Society of the Sacred Mission; extant | St Antony's Priory, Durham | ||
Ebchester Nunnery | nuns founded before 660 by St Ebba (purportedly daughter of King Ethelfrid); destroyed in raids by the Danes c.875; reference to hermitage or chapel mid-12th century and 1241 (Chapel of St Mary, Yareshale (Yareshaugh)) possibly on site, private chapel of Bishops of Durham before mid-15th century | St Ebbas Nunnery | ||
Egglestone Abbey | Premonstratensian Canons — from Easby, Yorkshire daughter house of Easby; founded between c.1190 and c.1195, probably by Ralph Moulton: land granted by Ralph de Moulton, sub-tenant of Ralph de Lenham, who ratified the grant 1198; refounded 1537; dissolved 5 January 1540; granted to Robert Shelley 1548/9; converted into a house 1548, then labourers cottages; (EH) | The Blessed Virgin Mary and St John the Baptist ____________________ Egleston Abbey | ||
Finchale Priory | Benedictine monks cell dependent on Durham; 1115 (or 1128) by Ranulf, Bishop of Durham who permitted St Godrick to establish his hermitage before 1170; becoming priory dependent on Durham 1196; confirmed to Durham by Hugh Pudsey, Bishop of Durham; dissolved 1538; granted to the Dean and Chapter of Durham 1534/5; (EH) | The Blessed Virgin Mary and St John the Baptist St John the Baptist and St Godric | ||
Gateshead House | monks founded before 653; apparently abandoned when monks left for Ireland | |||
Hartlepool — St Hilda's Monastery | probably monks and nuns founded c.640 by Hieu, an Irishwoman (possibly St Bega) placed in charge by St Aidan destroyed 800? | St Hilda's Monastery | ||
Hartlepool Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Newcastle) transferred from Durham, before 1240; dissolved 1538 | |||
Hartlepool Friary? | Dominican Friars probably copyist's error ref. to Franciscan Friary (see immediately above) | |||
Haswell Grange | Benedictine monks endowment — possibly from Gisborough, Yorkshire; transferred to Baxterwood after 1180, probably prior to any buildings being erected; becoming a grange under Finchale | |||
Jarrow Priory | Historical county location. See entry under Tyne and Wear | |||
Jarrow Friar? | Historical county location. See entry under Tyne and Wear | |||
Neasham Priory | Benedictine nuns founded before 1156 (before 1163) purportedly by Lord Dacres; dissolved 1539–40; granted to James Lawson 1540/1; house named 'Neasham Abbey' built near site 19th century | St Mary ____________________ Nesham Priory; Nesseham Priory | ||
Norton Monastery? | St Mary's Church incorporates remnants of a church built c.1000 — no reference of pre-Conquest community, but size suggests more than a parochial church; granted to St Cuthbert's, then to Chester-le-Street Cathedral | |||
Owton Priory | Gilbertine Canons charter confirming founded 1204 by Alan de Wilton, probably never established (though possibly a grange at Owton Grange nr Brierton) | St Mary ____________________ Oveton in Hartness Priory;Owton in Harness Priory | ||
Samford Priory? | Benedictine monks probably confused for Stamford Priory, Lincolnshire | |||
South Shields Monastery | Saxon monks and nuns founded 648 by St Aidan for St Hilda; Benedictine? nuns refounded? c.686; destroyed ? 865–75 | Wherhale Monastery?; Wyrale Monastery | ||
Wearmouth Abbey | Historical county location until Tune and Wear created in 1974. See List of monastic houses in Tyne and Wear |
Essex
[edit](For references and location detail see List of monastic houses in Essex ) [21]
Foundation | Image | Communities & Provenance | Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names |
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Assandun Minster ~(/+) | monastic or secular community founded 1020 by Canute; usually identified as Ashingdon, but also Hadstock | Ashingdon Minster?; possibly Hadstock Minster (Ashdon beside Hadstock) | |
Bedemans Berg Priory | hermitage founded before 1135 (during the reign of Henry I); Benedictine monks cell dependent on Colchester founded before 1135; dissolved 1536 | dedication unknown | |
Beeleigh Abbey ^ | Premonstratensian Canons transferred from Neasham via Parndon 1180; founded before 1172 at Parndon by Robert Mantell; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir John Gate 1540/1; remains now incorporated into private house without public access | Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Nicholas, Beeleigh ____________________ Bileigh Abbey (originally Maldon Abbey) | |
Berden Priory # | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 12th century, probably by a member of the Rocheford family; apparently initially a hospital; dependent on Walden 1343; dissolved 1536; granted to Henry Parker 1537 (1538/9); site now occupied by mansion named 'Berden Priory' | The Priory Church of Saint John the Evangelist, Berden | |
Bicknacre Priory | hermitage of Jordan founded before 1175; Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1175 by Maurice Fitz Jeffery and Tiretai, Sheriff of Essex (or Maurice FitzGeoffrey of Tiltey, former Sheriff of Essex): converted to priory late 1175; dissolved 1507 on the death of the last prior, at which time no canons remained; granted to Henry Polsted 1539/40; granted to St Mary's Hospital without Bishopsgate, London | The Priory Church of Saint Mary and Saint John the Baptist, Bicknacre ____________________ Woodham Ferrers Priory; Woodham Priory; Wudeham Priory | |
Blackmore Priory + | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1152-62 by Adam and Jordan de Samford; dissolved 1525 for Wolsey's college at Oxford; granted to John Smith 1540/1; priory church now in parochial use as the Parish Church of St Laurence | The Priory Church of Saint Lawrence, Blackmore ____________________ Jericho Priory | |
Bradwell Minster + | Roman Saxon Shore fort of Othona reused as monastery Celtic-style community founded c.654 by St Cedd; St Peter's Cathedral built at fort gatehouse; becoming a minster within Diocese of London shortly after October 664 (when Cedd died); believed destroyed in raids by the Danes 9th century; dependent on St Valery on the Somme 1068; sold to William of Wykeham 1391; in use as a barn 1750; restored as a chapel 1920; continuing as ecumenical place of worship and pilgrimage | St Cedd's Monastery; St Peter-on-the-Wall; Ithancester Monastery; Ythancester Monastery | |
Burstead Grange # | Cistercian Monks grange or cell dependent on Stratford; during the flooding of Stratford the community transferred here until the re-edification of the abbey | ||
Castle Hedingham Priory | Benedictine nuns founded ?before 1190 by Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford (or by his wife Countess Lucia (Lucy), later the first prioress); dissolved 1536; granted to John, Earl of Oxford 1536/7 | The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint James and the Holy Cross ____________________ Castlehedinhgam Priory; Heningham Priory | |
Chelmsford Blackfriars | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of London) founded before 1277 (either at Chelmsford or originally at Fulsham); dissolved 1538; granted to Antony Bonvixi 1542/3 | Chelmesford Friary | |
Coggeshall Abbey + | Savignac monks — from Savigny founded 3 August 1140 by King Stephen; Cistercian monks orders merged 17 September 1147; dissolved 5 February 1538; granted to Sir Thomas Seymour 1537/8; Little Coggeshall Abbey called 'Grange Barn'; site now occupied by a private house (re)built 1581 with limited public access; (NT) | The Abbey Church of Saint Mary and Saint John at Coggeshall ____________________ Coxhall Abbey; Coggeshale Abbey | |
Colchester Crutched Friary # | Crutched Friars founded before 1230-35 by William de Lanvelli; by 1392 became a secular hospital or free chapel; Crutched Friars refounded 1496; dissolved 1538; granted to Thomas, Lord Audley 1543/4; location established during excavation 1928 | Hospital of the Holy Cross and Saint Helen | |
Colchester Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Cambridge) founded before 1237 by Robert, Lord FitzWalter (who became a friar); dissolved 1538; granted to Francis Jobson and Andrew Audley 1544/5 | Colchester Greyfriars | |
Colchester — St Botolph's Priory | secular founded c.1093 by Ernulphus (later first prior); Augustinian Canons Regular refounded c.1100-6; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir Thomas Audley 1536/7; (EH) | The Priory Church of Saint Julian and Saint Botolph, Colchester (from before 1106) | |
Colchester — St John's Abbey ^ | Benedictine monks founded 1096/7 by Eudo, courtier of William the Conqueror; dissolved 1539; granted to John, Earl of Warwick 1547/8; (EH) | The Abbey Church of Saint John the Baptist, Colchester ____________________ Colchester Abbey; Colchester Priory | |
Colne Minster | founded before 1045; subsequently site of Earl's Colne Priory | ||
Cressing Preceptory | Knights Templar founded 1136 (1150) by King Stephen: donor, Maud (Matilda), queen of Stephen; Knights Hospitaller after 1312; dissolved after 1381: plundered during peasants' revolt; private farm 1515; granted to Sir W. Hughes, Kt. 1543/4; passed to Sir John Smyth and his family; 'The Granary' built 1623 | Cressing Temple | |
Earl's Colne Priory | Benedictine monks dependent on Abingdon, Berkshire (Oxfordshire) founded before/c.1107 by Albericus de Vere (later a monk there) with consent of Henry I and Maurice, Bishop of London; on or near the site of an earlier minster extant 1045; practically independent from 1311; dissolved 1536; granted to John, Earl of Oxford 1536/7; 17th-century house built on site, incorporated into 1865 house currently on site | Earls Colne Priory; Monks Colne Priory; Colne Priory; Colum Priory; Colun Priory | |
Frating Abbey | |||
Hadstock Minster? | Church of St Botolph, site of important late-Anglo-Saxon church, belonging to Ely, identified by some as Assunden Minster built c.1020 by Canute | ||
Halstead Cell | Benedictine monks founded late 11th century (during the reign of William the Conqueror) by Ingelrica, wife of Ranulf Peverell; dissolved; granted to Giles Leigh 1537/8 | Halstede Cell | |
Hatfield Broad Oak Priory + | Benedictine monks alien house: cell dependent on St-Melaine, Rennes; founded c.1135 by Aubrey de Vere, father of the 1st Earl of Oxford; dissolved 1534; granted to Sir Edward North 1543 | The Priory Church of Saint Mary and Saint Melaine, Hatfield Broad Oak ____________________ Hatfield Regis Priory; Hatfield Broadoak Priory | |
Hatfield Peverel Priory + | Benedictine monks secular college founded before 1087; converted into priory as a cell of St Albans by William Peverel before 1100; dissolved 1536; priory church in parochial use as the Parish Church of St Andrew | The Priory Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Hatfield Peverel | |
Hockley | alternative possible location of Assandun Minster | ||
Latton Priory ^ | Augustinian Canons Regular founded before 1292; abandoned 1534; granted to Sir Henry Parker 1536/7 remains now incorporated into farm buildings | The Priory Church of Saint John the Baptist, Latton | |
Leez Priory # | Augustinian Canons Regular founded before 1200 (13th century) by Sir Ralph Gernoun; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir Richard Rich 1536; site now occupied by 16th-century mansion named 'Leez Priory' | Leighs Priory; Leigh Priory; Little Leighs Priory | |
Little Dunmow Priory + | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1106 (1104) by Lady Juga; dissolved 1536; granted to Robert, Earl of Sussex 1536/7; part of conventual church now in parochial use as the Parish Church of St Mary | Dunmow Parva Priory | |
Little Horkesley Priory | Cluniac monks alien house: daughter house of Thetford, Norfolk (dependent on Lewes, Sussex) founded before 1127 by Robert Fitz Godebald (Robert of Horkesley) and his wife Beatrice; became denizen: independent from 1376; dissolved 1525; church destroyed by bombing in 1940 | The Priory Church of Saint Peter, Horkesley ____________________ Horkesley Priory; Horkesley Parva Priory | |
Little Maplestead Preceptory | Knights Hospitaller probably founded ?before 1186 by Juliana, daughter and heiress of Robert Dorsnell; dissolved c.1463; granted to George Harper | The Church of Saint John the Baptist, Maplestead ____________________ Maplestead Preceptory; Maplestead Commandery | |
Maldon Whitefriars | Carmelite Friars founded 1293 (14th century) by Richard Gravesend, Bishop of London, and Richard Isleham, rector of South Hanningfield; dissolved 1538; granted to George Duke and John Sterr 1544/5 | ||
Panfield Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular alien house: dependent on St-Etienne, Caen; founded 1069/70 (1070–77) by Waleran Fitz Ranulph; dissolved 1413 (1414); granted to Sir Giles Caple 1538/9 | Paunsfield Priory | |
Parndon Abbey # | Premonstratensian Canons Regular — from Newhouse founded before 1172 by Robert Mantell; transferred to Beeleigh 1180; traditional site now occupied by buildings of Harlow Newton Golf Club | Abbey Church of Saint Mary and Saint Nicholas, Great Parndon ____________________ Great Parndon Abbey | |
Prittlewell Priory ^, Southend-on-Sea | Cluniac monks alien house: dependent on Lewes, Sussex; founded between 1086 and 1121 by Robert Fitz Swain; became denizen: independent from sometime between 1351 and 1374; dissolved 1536; granted to Thomas Audley 1537/8; granted to Sir Richard Rich 1551; acquired by the Earl of Nottingham 1678; then the Scratton family; sold by Daniel Scratton 19th century; bought by Robert Jones 1917; given to Southend Borough 1920; site now within public Priory Park, now in ownership of Southend Corporation | The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Prittlewell | |
St Osyth's Abbey ^ | Augustinian Canons Regular founded before 1118 by Richard de Belmeis, Bishop of London and St Osyth, on the site of an earlier Saxon nunnery, established as Priory raised to Abbey status; dissolved; granted to Thomas, Lord Cromwell 1539/40 then to Sir Thomas Darey 1551/2; after reformation incorporated into a mansion; now in private ownership with public access | The Abbey Church of Saint Osyth, Saint Osyths ____________________ St Osyth's Priory; Chich Abbey | |
Southminster | Saxon minster | ||
Stansgate Priory | Cluniac monks alien house: cell dependent on Lewes, Sussex; founded 1122 by the predecessors of Lewes Priory; became denizen: independent from sometime between 1351 and 1374; in parochial use as the parish church for Steeple until closure 9 February 1525; dissolved 1525; granted to Cardinal's College Oxford; granted to the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem 1531; sold to Edmund Mordaut 1544 | St Mary Magalen ____________________ Stanesgate Priory | |
Takeley Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on St Valery, Picardy; founded 1066–86; dissolved c.1391; now in grounds of Warish Hall | The Priory Church of Saint Valery, Takeley | |
Thoby Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1141-51 by Michael Capra, his wife and son; dissolved 1525; granted to Sir Richard Page, Kt. 1530/1; granted to Wolsey's college at Oxford | Thobey Priory; Ginges Priory | |
Thremhall Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1150 (11th century or mid-12th century) by Gilbert de Monefixo; dissolved 1536; granted to John Carey 1536/7; site now occupied by a modern house | The Priory Church of Saint James the Apostle, Thremhall | |
Tilbury Monastery | Saxon monastery founded c.654 (630) by St Cedd; probably destroyed in raids by the Danes 9th century | ||
Tilty Abbey + | Cistercian monks founded 1153 by Robert Ferrers, Earl of Derby and Maurice FitzJeffery; dissolved 1536; granted to Thomas Lord Audley 1543/4; church now in parochial use | Tiltey Abbey | |
Tiptree Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 12th century by Ralph de Munchensi dissolved; 16th-century house built on site | The Priory Church of Saint Mary and Saint Nicholas, Tiptree | |
Tolleshunt Major Grange | |||
Tolleshunt Knights — St John's Monastery * | Orthodox monks and nuns founded 1959; extant | Monastery of John the Baptist (1959) Patriarchal Monastery of St John the Baptist (1965) Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St John the Baptist | |
Walden Abbey ^ | Benedictine monks founded 1136 by Jeffrey (Geoffrey de) Mandevil[le], Earl of Essex; raised to abbey status 1190; dissolved 1538; granted to Sir Thomas Audley 1538; site now occupied by Audley End House and St. Mark's College | The Priory Church of Saint Mary and Saint James the Apostle, Walden The Abbey Church of Saint Mary and Saint James the Apostle, Walden ____________________ Saffron Walden Abbey; Little Walden Abbey; Walden Priory | |
Waltham Abbey + | secular canons founded ?1016-1035 (during the reign of Canute); refounded before c.1060 by Earl Harold; Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1177 by Henry II; dissolved 23 March 1540; granted to Sir Antony Deny part of church now in use as parish church | Holy Cross | |
West Mersea Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on St Ouen, Rouen; founded c.1046(?) by Edward the Confessor; dissolved 1400; granted to Higham Ferrer's collegiate church 1426; granted to Robert Dacres, Esq. 1542/3; conventual church now in parochial use as parish church of SS Peter & Paul | The Priory Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Mersea ____________________ Mercy Priory; West Meresey Priory | |
Witham Preceptory | founded 1138–48, manor granted by King Stephen, his wife Matilda and son Eustace of Boulogne; dissolved before 1200(?), apparently united with Cressing and retained as a manor | ||
Wix Priory + | Benedictine nuns founded 1123-33 by Walter and Alexander Mascherell; dissolved 1525; site now occupied by Abbey Farmhouse blocked arches of priory church form north wall of the church of St Mary The Virgin | The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Wix ____________________ Wickes Priory; Wikes Priory; Sopwick Priory |
Gloucestershire
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Foundation | Image | Communities & Provenance | Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names | |
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Beckford Priory | Historical county location. See entry under Worcestershire | |||
Berkeley Abbey | nuns founded before 807; destroyed before 1051 secular collegiate founded before 1066 (1019–1053) by Earl Godwin; dissolved c.1135 or later (after 1338); granted to Reading, Berkshire; current parochial church of St Mary possibly on site of minster or a property of the minster | Berkeley Minster ____________________ possibly Oldminster | ||
Bishop's Cleeve | minster and church of St Michael granted by Offa and Ealdred 768–79; apparently annexed to the bishop or church of Worcester before 888 | |||
Blockley Monastery | Saxon monastery founded before?855; granted to Ealhun, Bishop of Worcester by Burhred, King of Mercia 855 | |||
Boxwell Priory | Benedictine nuns possibly destroyed in raids by the Danes | |||
Brimpsfield Priory | Benedictine monks founded before 1100; alien house: (non-conventual: grange?), dependent on St Wandrille, Fontenay; dissolved 1414 (before 1441); granted to Eton College, then to Windsor | Brimpsfield Grange
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Cheltenham Minster | Anglo-Saxon minster here from 8th century onwards which was a monasterium or collegiate church as opposed to a monastery. Not to be confused with the more recent Cheltenham Minster, where St Mary's Parish Church was redesignated a Minster by the Bishop of Gloucester on Sunday 3 February 2013. Reference to minster 803 founded before 803 (c.770: apparently extant for 30 years); | |||
Cirencester Abbey | Saxon minster — secular college founded before 839 (during the reign of Egbert, King of Wessex) by Alwin; Augustinian Canons Regular founded (1117-)1131 by Henry I; dissolved 19 December 1539; granted to Sir Thomas Seymour 1547; granted to Richard Masters 1563/4; site now within a public park; house named 'Abbey House' built on site | The Blessed Virgin Mary | ||
Daylesford Monastery | founded 718 (? 727) by Begia (Baegia), land granted by Æthelbald, King of Mercia; granted to Worcester by Beorhtwulf 841; later claimed by Evesham dissolved | Daeglesford Priory | ||
Deerhurst Abbey + | Saxon minster founded late-7th century; Benedictine? monks founded after 715 purportedly by Dodo (co-founder of Tewkesbury); destroyed? c.878; Benedictine monks rebuilt/(re)founded c.970 by St Oswald; destroyed c.975; alien house: dependent on St-Denis rebuilt before 1056, purportedly by Edward the Confessor, who granted it to St-Denis c.1059 — alien priory; became denizen: independent from 1443; granted to Eton College c.1447; restored to St Denis, for English monks 1461; secular chaplain without monks 1467; granted as cell to Tewkesbury; dissolved 1540; conventual church in parochial use as the Parish Church of St Mary | St Mary the Virgin St Mary the Virgin and St Denis ____________________ Derehures Abbey | ||
Farmcote Grange | Cistercian monks grange of Hailes Abbey | |||
Flaxley Abbey + | Cistercian monks daughter house of Bordesley, Worcestershire founded 30 September 1151 by Roger, Earl of Hereford; dissolved 1536–7; granted to Sir Anthony Kingston 1544/5; remains now incorporated into a private house without public access | The Blessed Virgin Mary ____________________ Flexley Abbey; Dene Abbey | ||
Gloucester Blackfriars | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Oxford) founded 1239 (before 1241) by Sir Stephen de Hermshall (or by Henry III) and consecrated 1284; dissolved 1538; granted to Thomas Bell 1539/40, who made it a drapering house | |||
Gloucester Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Bristol) founded before 1230 (1231), granted by Lord Berkley, under the guidance of Agnellus of Pisa, with timber provided by Henry III; dissolved 1538; granted to John Jennings 1543/4; church converted into a brewery | |||
Gloucester Whitefriars # | Carmelite Friars founded before 1268 (during the reign of Henry III) purportedly by Queen Eleanor, Sir Thomas Gifford and Sir Thomas Berkley; dissolved c.25 July 1538; granted to Richard Andrews and Nicholas Temple 1543/4 | |||
Gloucester Cathedral Abbey + | Benedictine monks and nuns — double house founded before 679 (c.681) by Wulfhere, King of Mercia and his brother and successor Æthelred; destroyed in raids by the Danes after 767; secular canons minster founded before 823 (c.823-5); Benedictine monks founded c1022; Benedictine monks refounded c.1058; dissolved 2 January 1540; granted to the Bishop and officers of Gloucester; conventual church becoming an episcopal diocesan cathedral founded 1541; extant | The Abbey Church of Saint Peter, Gloucester The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity in Gloucester (1541) | ||
St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester | church of secular canons traditionally founded 660 by a son of Penda of Mercia; Augustinian Canons Regular founded 890s/refounded 909 by Æthelflæd/Æthelflæda and her husband Æthelred, ealdorman of Mercia; founded before 1153 as a priory by Henry Murdac, Archbishop of York; granted to John Jennings 1539/40; subsequently in parochial use as the Parish Church of St Catherine; destroyed 1643 | St Oswald, King and Martyr | ||
Hailes Abbey | Cistercian monks — from Beaulieu, Hampshire founded 17 July 1246 (1245) by Richard, Earl of Cornwall; dissolved 24 December 1539; granted to Sir Thomas Seymour 1547; granted to William, Marquis of Northampton 1550; (NT) | The Blessed Virgin Mary ____________________ Hayles Abbey; Tray Abbey | ||
Hatherop Priory | Carthusian Monks founded 1222 transferred to Hinton 1227–32 | |||
Hazleton Abbey | Cistercian monks daughter house of Tintern, Monmouthshire; (community founded at Kingswood earlier site 7 September 1139); transferred from Kingswood c.1149-50; dissolved c.1150-4; transferred to Tetbury; (EH) | The Blessed Virgin Mary | ||
Horsley Priory ^ | Benedictine monks alien house: cell dependent on Troarn; founded between 1066 and 1087 (during the reign of William the Conqueror) by Roger, Earl of Shrewsbury; Augustinian Canons Regular became denizen: cell granted to Bruton 1260; vicarage 1380; dissolved; granted to Sir Walter Denys of Dyrham 1553; a prison late-18th century; 19th century parish church of St Mary now occupies the site or an area to the north; other monastic buildings possibly currently in use as a hotel | dedication unknown ____________________ Horkeslegh Priory | ||
Kingswood Abbey, earlier site | Cistercian Monks — from Tintern, Monmouthshire daughter house of Tintern; founded 7 September 1139 by William de Berkeley; refounded 1164-70 on new site; transferred to Hazleton 1149–50; this site retained as a grange; dissolved 1 February 1538 and demolished; gatehouse remains; (EH) | Kingswood Grange | ||
Kingswood Abbey | Cistercian Monks — from Tintern, Monmouthshire (community founded at Kingswood earlier site 7 September 1139); transferred from Tetbury c.1164-70; dissolved 1 February 1538 | |||
Kinley Priory | purportedly an ancient priory, lands seized by William the Conqueror | Kinline Priory | ||
Lechlade Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 13th century by Richard, Earl of Cornwall | The Priory Church of Saint John the Baptist, Lechlade ____________________ Lechelade Priory | ||
Leonard Stanley Priory + | Benedictine monks founded c.1130 by Roger de Berkeley II; Augustinian Canons Regular confirmed to Gloucester Abbey 1146; dissolved 1538; granted to Sir Anthony Kingston church now in parochial use | The Priory Church of Saint Leonard of Stanley ____________________ Stanley St Leonard Priory; Stanley Priory | ||
Llanthony Secunda Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular — from Llanthony, Wales daughter house of Llanthony founded 1136 at the instance of Robert, Bishop of Gloucester on a site granted by Miles (Milo) of Gloucester, Earl of Hereford; built by the prior and canons at Llanthony Priory; dissolved 1538; granted to Sir Arthur Porter 1540/1 | The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary Lantony Priory; Lanthony Priory | ||
Minchinhampton Priory | Benedictine nuns alien house: dependent on Holy Trinity, Caen; probably a grange: no evidence of nuns resident; granted to the nuns (or minchins) of Holy Trinity, Caen 1082 by William the Conqueror; leased before 1192; forfeit 14th century; reverted to the Crown 1414; granted to Syon Abbey 1424; granted to Andrews, Lord Windsor 1542/3; | Minchin Hampton Priory | ||
Minsterworth | Saxon minster | |||
Newent Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on Cormeilles Priory, Normandy; founded before 1086 by William fitz Osbern; dissolved 1411 by Henry IV; granted to Fotheringay College; granted to Sir Richard Lee 1547; St Mary's Parish church possibly the Priory Church | The Blessed Virgin Mary ____________________ Noent Priory; Newenton Priory | ||
Poulton Priory | chantry chapel founded 1348 by Sir Thomas Seymour; Gilbertine Canons founded 1350; dissolved 1539; conventual church becoming the parish church demolished and replaced 1873; monastic remains incorporated into a wall at Priory Farm on site | The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Poulton | ||
Prinknash Abbey * | Benedictine monks founded 1928 at St Peter's Grange; transferred to new abbey 1972 (see immediately below); transferred back to St Peter's Grange 29 June 2008; extant | |||
Prinknash Abbey — former site | Benedictine monks (community founded 1928 at St Peter's Grange); transferred here 1972; transferred back to St Peter's Grange 29 June 2008 (see immediately above) | |||
Quenington Preceptory | Knights Hospitaller founded between 1144 and 1162 by Walter, the first Prior of the Order in England by the bounty of Agnes de Lacy and her daughter; dissolved 1540; granted to Sir Richard Morisine and Sir Anthony Kingston 1545/6; demolished 17th century; site now occupied by Quenington House | Queinington Preceptory | ||
St Briavels Chantry | hermitage Cistercian monks chantry dependent on Grace Dieu; founded c.1361, granted to Grace Dieu; dissolution unknown | |||
Temple Guiting Preceptory | Knights Templar founded c.1150, lands granted by Gilbert de Lacy and Roger de Waterville; benefactors included Roger, Earl of Hereford, and Roger d'Oilly; dissolved 1308–1311; possibly in ownership of Knights Hospitallers after 1338, but neither used as preceptory or camera | Guiting Preceptory | ||
Temple Guiting Grange | possible Knights Templars grange of Temple Guiting Preceptory | |||
Tetbury Monastery | Saxon monastery founded before 680; land granted by King Æthelred of Mercia; site possibly near current after-medieval parish church of St Mary Magdalene (built on the site of a medieval church) | Tettan Monastery | ||
Tetbury Abbey | Cistercian monks (community founded at Kingswood earlier site 7 September 1139); transferred from Hazleton c.1150-4 (1148–54); site found to be unsuitable; transferred to Kingswood c.1164-70; monastic remains apparently incorporated into current residences in Tetbury | The Blessed Virgin Mary | ||
Tewkesbury Abbey + | hermitage of Theokus Benedictine? monks cell dependent on Cranborne; founded c.715 by Dodo, Saxon lord; destroyed? in raids by the Danes 9th century; cell refounded c.980; enlarged by Robert RitzHaimon 1102; transferred from Cranborne 1102; raised to abbey status 1102; dissolved 9 January 1540; granted to Thomas Strowde, Walter Erie and James Paget 1544/5; now in parochial use | The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Tewkesbury ____________________ Theokesbury Abbey | ||
Twyinging Monastery | Saxon monastery founded before c.770 (during(?) the tenure of Mildred, Bishop of Worcester); granted to Worcester c.800 or 814 | Bituinaeum Monastery; Ad Tuueoneaam | ||
Winchcombe Nunnery | nuns founded 787 by Offa; Benedictine foundation built on site (see immediately below) | |||
Winchcombe Abbey | Benedictine monks founded 798 by King Ranulph on site of a nunnery (see immediately above); secular founded 9th century?; raised to abbey status c.969; destroyed by fire 1151; rebuilt and rededicated 1239; dissolved 1540; granted to Sir Thomas Seymour 1547/8; abbot's house used as parish workhouse; demolished 1815 | The Abbey Church of St Mary and St Kenelm, Winchcombe ____________________ Winchcombe Priory Winchelcombe Abbey | ||
Withington Monastery | Saxon monastery founded between 674 and 704?: site granted to Abbess Dunna and her daughter Bucga for monastery by viceroy Oshere, with the consent of King Æthelred of Mercia dissolved after early-9th century | |||
Woodchester Monastery | religious house purportedly built by Gueta, wife of Earl Godwin | |||
Wotton under Edge Friary | Crutched Friars founded 1349(?) (1347): licence for foundation granted by Edward III 1349; dissolution unknown, probably after only a few years | |||
Yate Monastery | Saxon monastery founded 777-9?: land granted to St Mary's, Worcester between 777 and 779; dissolved after early-9th century; absorbed by Worcester c.888? |
Greater London
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Foundation | Image | Communities & Provenance | Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names |
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Aldgate Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1107-8 by Queen Maud; conventual church rebuilt 1339 onwards; dilapidated since 1532; dissolved 1534; granted to Sir Thomas Audley, Speaker of the House of Commons 1531/2; largely demolished thereafter | Christchurch, Aldgate | |
Aldgate Abbey | Franciscan nuns founded 1293-4 by Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, confirmed by his brother Edward I; dissolved March 1539; | The Abbey Church of the Grace of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Francis, without Aldgate ____________________ The Minories, London; Holy Trinity, Minories | |
Barking Abbey | Benedictine? nuns and monks — double house founded c.666 by St Erkenwald son of Anna, King of the East Angles; destroyed in raids by the Danes 870; refounded 946-951 Benedictine nuns refounded 965-75 by King Edgar and St Dunstan dissolved 14 November 1539; granted to Edward, Lord Clinton 1551/2 | St Mary St Mary and St Ethelburgha ____________________ Berking Abbey; Bedenham Abbey | |
Bentley Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1171 by Ranulf de Glanville; dissolved before 1532; house named 'The Priory' possibly built on site: formerly in use as a girls' school, then a hotel; now in ownership of R.A.F. Bentley Priory | The Priory Church of Saint Mary Magdalen, Bentley | |
Bermondsey Minster | Saxon monastery founded not earlier than under Pope Constantine I (708-715) nothing further known about its history — possibly destroyed in raids by the Danes 9th century and succeeded by a new minster at Southwark | ||
Bermondsey Abbey | Cluniac monks alien house: dependent on La Charité; priory founded 1082 by Alvin (Aylwin) Child, citizen of London (first monks arrived 1089); became denizen: independent from 1381; raised to abbey status 1399 by order of the Pope; dissolved 1 January 1538; granted to Sir Richard Southwell 1541/2; and demolished soon after | St Saviour | |
Brockley Abbey | Premonstratensian Canons daughter house of Sulby, Northamptonshire; founded before 1182 by Countess Juliana and her seneschal Michael of Thornham; dissolved 1199–1208; transferred to Bayham, (East) Sussex c.1180 | The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Brockley | |
Bromley-by-Bow Priory | Benedictine nuns founded before 1122; dissolved 1536 | Bromley Priory; Stratford-at-Bow Priory; Stratford-by-Bow Priory | |
Clerkenwell Priory | Knights Hospitaller founded c.1144 (or c.1100 by Jordan Briset, Baron, and his wife Muriel); dissolved 1540; the tower was blown up by Protector Somerset, much of the material used to build Somerset House | St John's Clerkenwell
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Clerkenwell Priory (Augustinian) | Augustinian Canonesses founded 1100 by Robert, Priest, or c.1144 by Jordan FitzRalph (Briset); also given as Benedictine nuns dissolved c.1539; granted to Walter Hanley and John Williams, Knight 1545/6 | The Priory Church of Saint Mary de Fonte The Priory Church of Saint Mary of the Assumption | |
Ealing Abbey * | Benedictine monks — from Downside, Somerset founded 1897; priory 1916; raised to abbey status 1955; extant | The Abbey Church of Saint Benedict, Ealing | |
Eastminster Abbey | Cistercian monks daughter house of Beaulieu, Hampshire; founded 20 March 1350 by Edward III; dissolved 1538; granted to Sir Arthur Darcy 1542/3 | New Abbey; The Abbey of St Mary de Graciis; St Mary Graces Abbey | |
Elsing Spital Priory | secular college (community founded at London within Cripplegate before 1329) transferred here: founded 1329 by William Elsing; nuns conventual hospital founded 1331; chapel for priory and hospital built 1332; Augustinian Canons Regular conventual hospital; founded 1340; granted to John Williams, Master of the King's Jewels 1539/40; destroyed by fire 24 December 1539/40; priory church in parochial use from dissolution; demolished 1923 | Elsing Spittle Priory; Priory and Hospital of St Mary-within-Cripplegate Church of St Alphage, London Wall | |
Feltham Priory | Anglican Benedictine nuns founded 24 June 1868 by Father Ignatius; transferred to Twickenham | SS Mary and Scholastica ____________________ Feltham Nunnery | |
Greenwich Blackfriars | Dominican Friars founded 1376 by Edward III and Sir John Norbury; dissolved; refounded by Queen Mary; dissolved by Elizabeth I | ||
Greenwich Greyfriars # | Observant Franciscan Friars founded 1482: permission granted by the Pope to Edward IV, established 1485; suppressed for rejection of papal authority 1534; Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of London) refounded 1534; dissolved 1538; Observant Franciscan Friars refounded 1555; dissolved 1559; demolished; north-west wing of hospital currently stands on site | ||
Haliwell Priory | Augustinian Canonesses founded before 1127 (before 1150(?)) by Robert fitz Gelran (Fitzmore), canon of St Paul's; benefacted by Richard Belmeis, Bishop of London; also given as Benedictine nuns dissolved c.1539; granted to William Webb 1544/5 | The Priory Church of Saint John the Baptist, Holywell ____________________ Holywell Priory; Holywell Nunnery, Shorditch | |
Hampton Cell then, later, Hampton Preceptory | Sisters of St John of Jerusalem founded before 1180; transferred to Sisters of St John Priory, Buckland, Somerset c.1180 | ||
Knights Hospitaller founded before 1180(?); manor procured by Hospitallers 1237; referred to as a camera 1338; later guest house; leased out 1505; dissolved 1338; lands were leased to the royal courtier Giles Daubeney 1494, who built private house; demolished 1514; 99-year lease obtained from the Hospitallers by Wolsey June 1514; Hampton Court built on site | |||
Harmondsworth Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: cell(?) dependent on St-Catherine-du-Mont, Rouen; founded between 1066 and 1087 (during the reign of William the Conqueror); dissolved ?before 1391; granted to Winchester College; granted to Sir William Paget 1547/8 | ||
Hornchurch Priory + | Augustinian Canons alien house: cell dependent on the Hospital of St Nicholas and St Bernard in Montjoux, Savoy; founded 1158/9 by Henry II; dissolved November 1390; granted to New College, Oxford 1391; | Saint Nicholas and Saint Bernard | |
Hounslow Priory | hospital founded before 1200; Trinitarians founded after 1224 (possibly 1252); dissolved 1538; granted to William, Lord Windsor; Parish Church of the Holy Trinity built on site 1828 | The Holy Trinity ____________________ Hounslow Friary | |
Kilburn Priory | anchoresses cell founded before/c.1130; Benedictine nuns founded 1139 (during the reign of Henry I) by the Convent of Westminster; possibly Augustinian Canonesses during existence — but began and ended as Benedictine; dissolved 1537 (1536); granted to John, Earl of Warwick 1547/8 | Kylburn Nunnery | |
Lesnes Abbey | Augustinian Canons Regular — Arrouasian founded June 1178 by Richard de Luci, Justiciar of England; dissolved 1525; granted to Cardinal Wolsey's college at Oxford; granted to Sir Ralph Sadler 1536/7 | The Abbey Church of Saint Thomas the Martyr, Lesnes ____________________ Westwood Abbey | |
Lewisham Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: cell dependent on St Peter, Gent; founded 11 September 918: granted by Elstrudis, Countess of Flanders and her sons Arnulf and Adelulf, confirmed by King Edgar August 964; confiscated and destroyed; restored 1044 by Edward the Confessor; dissolved 1414; granted to the Carthusians at Sheen by Henry V 1415 | ||
London Areno Friars | Friars of St Mary de Areno founded 1267 by William Arnand, a knight of Henry III; ceased 1317 with the death of the last brother, Hugh of York (appears to be the same establishment as the London Pied Friars and Westminster Pied Friars) | ||
London Austin Friars | Augustinian Friars founded 1253 by Humphrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex; dissolved 1538; granted to John a Losco 1550, who founded preaching house for congregation of Walloon refugees; nave used as church, quire, transepts and tower demolished 1600; church destroyed by fire 1862; rebuilt 1863; bombed in 1940 during World War II; rebuilt 1950-6 as the Dutch Church, Austin Friars | ||
London Charterhouse ^, Charterhouse Square | secular college intended 1348; chapel built; founded by Sir Walter de Manny; Carthusian monks founded 1371; dissolved 1537; granted to Sir Thomas Audley 1544/5; almshouse and Charterhouse School founded by Thomas Sutton on the site 1622; which transferred to Godalming 1872; and that part of the site is now research facilities for the Barts and The London medical school | House of the Salutation of the Mother of God | |
London, Cornhill Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of London) founded 1224: hired a house here after living for a number of days with the Dominicans at Holborn upon arriving in London; transferred to Newgate 1225 | ||
London Crutched Friars | Crutched Friars founded before 1269; dissolved 1538 | ||
London, Friars of the Sack, Aldersgate | Friars of the Sack founded 1257; transferred to Lothbury (see immediately below) before 1271–2 | ||
London, Friars of the Sack, Lothbury | Friars of the Sack (community founded at Aldersgate (see immediately above) 1257); transferred here before 1271–1; abandoned 1305; chapel became a chantry | ||
London, Holborn Blackfriars | Dominican Friars founded before 1224 (probably 1221); transferred to Ludgate (see immediately below) after 1275 | Monumenta Conventus Londinensis | |
London, Ludgate Blackfriars | Dominican Friars (community founded at Holborn (see immediately above) before 1224 (probably 1221)) transferred here after 1275; dissolved 12 November 1538; briefly refounded under Queen Mary at Smithfield | ||
London, Newgate Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars (under the Custody of London) (community founded at Cornhill 1224); transferred here 1225: John Iwyn, citizen of London, allowed them the use of land and property; school founded church completed 1327; dissolved 12 November 1538; granted to the City of London 1546/7; reused as Christ Hospital | ||
New Temple, London + | Knights Templar (community founded at earlier site (see immediately below) 1121); transferred here 1161; dissolved 1308–12; Knights Hospitaller transferred 1324; part leased to lawyers for use as a hostel; dissolved after 1540; leased to the Benches of the Inner and Middle Temple by James I 1609; restorations 19th century; church severely damaged in World War II in 1941; restored 1947–57 | ||
London, Old Temple | Knights Templar founded 1121; transferred to new site (see immediately above) 1161 | Camden Preceptory | |
London Pied Friars | Pied Friars (appears to be the same as London Areno Friars, and Westminster Pied Friars) | ||
London — St Dominic's Priory | Dominican Friars opened 1867, church completed 1882 | The Priory of Our Holy Father St Dominic Our Lady of the Rosary and Saint Dominic | |
London — St Helen's, Bishopsgate + | Benedictine nuns founded before 1216 by William fitz William(s), goldsmith; dissolved 25 November 1538; granted to Sir Richard Cromwell 1541/2; conventual buildings were acquired by the Leathersellers' Company 1543; conventual church now in parochial use as the Parish Church of St Helen, Bishopsgate; church restored 18th, 19th, 20th century; damaged by IRA bomb 10 April 1992; restored 1995–7 | St Helen | |
London — St James Monkswell Chantry | Carthusian monks house or cell of the Abbot of Garendon; chantry(?), daughter house of Garendon, Leicestershire; founded 1341 | ||
London, St Mary Spital | Augustinian Canons Regular conventual hospital or priory founded 1197 by Walter Fitz Ealdred land granted by Walter Brunus, citizen of London, and his wife Roisia; granted to Stephen Vaughan who made his home in the precinct | St Mary the Virgin ____________________ St Mary Spittle, without Bishopsgate; Domus Dei | |
London, St Mary of Bethlehem Friary | Augustinian Canons Regular — Order of Bethlehem conventual hospital; St Mary of Bethlehem Sisters founded 1247, land granted by Simon Fitz Mary to Godfrey, bishop of Bethlehem to founded a house of canons, brothers and sisters; hospital became attached to the founded before 1329; dissolved; hospital but was moved to Moorfields 1675-6 and then to the South side of the Thames in 1814 (see Bethlem Royal Hospital) | The Bethlehem Hospital; Bedlam | |
London, St Thomas of Acon Hospital | Augustinian Canons Regular conventual hospital | ||
London, Smithfield Blackfriars | Dominican Friars briefly founded under Queen Mary | ||
London Whitefriars | Carmelite Friars founded 1247 by Sir Richard Grey; church built 1253; rebuilt mid-14th century dissolved 1538; granted to Richard Moresyne and William Butts 1540/1; frater, library and kitchen granted to the King's Armourer; Michael Drayton and Thomas Woodford, nephew of the playwright Thomas Lodge, converted the former refectory for use as The Whitefriars Theatre 1608 (or possibly 1606); theatre closed 1629 | ||
London within Cripplegate (?)Priory | nuns(?)/conventual hospital founded before 1329; became dilapidated; abandoned 1329; transferred to Elsing | ||
Merton Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1114 (1117) by Gilbert Norman, Sheriff of Surrey; dissolved 1538; Merton Abbey Station built on site 19th century; site now occupied by shopping centre with purpose-built basement from which remains are visible | The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Merton The Priory Church of Saint Mary of Merton ____________________ Merton Abbey St Mary's Priory; St Mary of Merton | |
Moor Hall Preceptory | Knights Hospitaller founded apparently c.1176, granted by Beatrice de Bollers, widdow; apparently became a camera by 1338; dissolved 1338; chapel demolished 1960 | Harefield Preceptory; Harefield Camera; Moor Hall Camera | |
Richmond Greyfriars # | Observant Franciscan Friars founded 1499 or 1500; dissolved 1534; probably passed to the Austin Friars; probably Augustinian Friars refounded 1534; dissolved 1536? | Richmond Austin Friars (1534-6) Sheen Friary | |
Ruislip Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: dependent Bec-Hellouin; founded (during the reign of William the Conqueror) land granted by Ernulph de Heding; conventual until after? c.1250; parcel of Ogbourne, Wiltshire 1291; dissolved 1404; granted to Ralph Sadler 1540/1; Manor Farm House built 16th century | Riselipp Priory | |
St Bartholomew's Priory + | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1123, land obtained from Henry I by Roahere, formerly a minstrel at court; became a priory with a separate hospital; dissolved October 1539; granted to Lord Rich 1558/9; now St Bartholomew's Hospital, and priory church in parochial use | The Priory Church of St Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield | |
Sheen Priory | Carthusian monks founded c.1414 by Henry V; dissolved 1539; granted to Edward, Earl of Hertford 1540/1; restored 26 January 1557 by Queen Mary, under Maurice Chauncy of London (who became prior) dissolved by Elizabeth I | The Priory Church of Jesus of Bethlehem ____________________ Richmond Priory; Shene Priory | |
Sheen Whitefriars | Carmelite Friars founded c.1315; dissolved c.1318; community transferred by Edward II to his manor called the 'Palace of Beaufort' at Oxford 1317–8 | ||
Southwark Cathedral Priory + | Saxon minster church pre-1066, allegedly built on the remains of an earlier nunnery; probably founded as a burghal minster either late in the reign of Alfred or earlier in the reign of Edward the Elder; probably succeeded the minster at Bermondsey; Augustinian Canons Regular (re)founded 1106; largely destroyed by fire 1212; subsequently rebuilt; dissolved 27 October 1539; granted to Sir Antony Brown 1544/5; episcopal diocesan cathedral founded 1 May 1905: see created for new diocese separated from Rochester; extant | The Priory Church of Saint Mary Overie, Southwark | |
Stratford Langthorne Abbey | Savignac monks founded 25 July 1135; Cistercian monks orders merged 17 September 1147; dissolved 1538 | The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Stratford Langthorne ____________________ West Ham Abbey | |
Stratford Friary * | Franciscan Friars Minor extant | ||
Syon Abbey | Bridgetine nuns founded 1431; dissolved 1539; 18th century house acquired | Charterhouse at Sheen | |
Tooting Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on Bec-Hellouin; manor held by Bec-Hellouin at the Domesday Survey; founded before 1086: granted by Richard de Tonbridge, Lord of Clare; dissolved before 1315(?); parcel of Ogbourne 1315; dissolved by Henry V 1414 and granted to his brother John, Duke of Bedford; on his death 14 September 1436, it passed to Henry VI who granted to John Ardern for ten years; granted to Eton College 1440 | Tooting Bec Priory | |
Twickenham Abbey | Bridgetine nuns founded 1415 by Henry V (who laid the first stone 22 February and signed charter 3 March); transferred to Syon 1431 | ||
Twickenham Priory | Anglican Benedictine nuns transferred from Feltham; transferred to West Malling, Kent | ||
Upminster | Saxon 'minster'; possibly on site now occupied by the Parish Church of St Laurence | ||
Westminster Abbey + | legendary very early foundation; possibly monastery founded c.616 (probably just a chapel or church) by Sebert on instruction by Bishop Mellitus; some evidence of monastery, possibly secular, founded before 785, destroyed? in raids by the Danes 871-2?, restored Benedictine monks founded c.960 (959); dissolved 16 January 1540; episcopal cathedral 1540–1550; restored 1556; dissolved 1559; collegiate church 1560; now in use as a royal peculiar | The Abbey Church of Saint Peter in Westminster | |
Westminster Pied Friars | Pied Friars (appears to be the same establishment as the London Areno Friars and London Pied Friars) | ||
Woodford Green Friary * | Franciscan Friars Minor extant | Friary and Parish of St Thomas of Canterbury |
Greater Manchester
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Foundation | Image | Communities & Provenance | Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names |
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Gorton Monastery * | Franciscan Friars; extant | The Church and Friary of St Francis | |
Kersal Priory | hermitage Cluniac monks alien house: cell, dependent on Lenton, Nottinghamshire; founded 1145-53: granted after 1143 by Ranulph 'de Gernon', Earl of Chester; became denizen: independent from 1392; dissolved 1538 | St Leonard ____________________ Kershall Priory | |
Marland Grange ~ | Cistercian monks grange of Stanlow, Cheshire, then of Whalley; founded before 1212 | ||
Warburton Priory # | Premonstratensian Canons cell, daughter house of Cockersand, Lancashire; founded c.1200 church of St Mary and St Werburgh granted to Cockersand by Adam of Dutton; abandoned before 1271 | Warburton Cell |
Hampshire
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Foundation | Image | Communities and provenance | Formal name or dedication and alternative names | |
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Alton Abbey * | Anglican Benedictine monks founded 1895; extant | The Abbey of Our Lady and Saint John | ||
Andover Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on St-Florent-de-Saumur; founded before 1087, church of St Mary granted to St-Florent by William the Conqueror, confirmed by the Pope 1146; dissolved c.1414; alienated to Winchester College | St Peter Blessed Virgin Mary | ||
Andwell Priory | Tironensian monks alien house: daughter of Tiron founded between 1100 and 1135 (during the reign of Henry I) by Adam de Port of Maplederwell; dedicated 1215/38 by John, Bishop of Ardfert (officiating for Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester); dissolved 1391; granted to Winchester College | The Blessed Virgin Mary (or St John the Baptist?) | ||
Baddesley Preceptory # | Knights Hospitaller transferred from Godsfield Preceptory; Hospitallers manor and estate of Godsfield here before 1167; transferred here before/c.1355; dissolved 1540; granted to Sir Nicolas Trockmorton 1539/40; house named 'Baddesley Manor' built on site | North Baddesley Preceptory; South Badeisley Preceptory | ||
Beaulieu Abbey ^ | Cistercian monks transferred from Faringdon Abbey, Berkshire daughter of Citeaux; founded 2 November 1203 (1204) by John; dissolved 1538; granted to Thomas Wriothesley Esq. 1538/9; now part of Beaulieu Palace House, in private ownership with public access | The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Beaulieu ____________________ Bellus Locus Regis; De Bello Loco Regis; (Royal Beaulieu); abbatia quae vocitatur Bellus Locus | ||
Breamore Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1128-33 by Baldwin de Reveriis and his uncle Hugh; dissolved 1536; granted to Henry, Marquis of Exeter 1536/7; Elizabethan manor house (1536) on site | The Priory Church of the Holy Trinity, Saint Mary and Saint Michael, Breamore ____________________ Bromere Priory | ||
Breamore Minster ? | large pre-Conquest church suggested to have been a minster 10th century — evidence lacking | St Mary | ||
Damerham Monastery | Saxon monastery founded before 880–5; community mentioned in Alfred the Great's will; land granted to Glastonbury, Wessex (Somerset) after 944–6 | |||
Eling Monastery ? | possible site of ancient monastery under Abbot Cimberth (Cynebert), (alternatively at Redbridge); founded c.680; strong evidence that the current Parish Church of St Mary, substantially restored 1863, was the pre-conquest minster, possibly Reodford/Redbridge | possibly Reodford Monastery; possibly Nursling Monastery | ||
Ellingham Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: cell, dependent on St-Sauveur-le-Vicomte founded 1160, church of St Mary and land granted by William de Solariis to build a cell; dissolved 1414; granted to Eton College 1462 | Church of Saint Mary Church of All Saints | ||
Farnborough Abbey * | Premonstratensian Canons cell founded 1887; French Benedictine 1895; raised to abbey status 1903; English Benedictine cell of Prinknash Abbey, Gloucestershire 1947; priory 1969; independent community 1980; extant | The Abbey Church of Saint Michael the Archangel, Farnborough | ||
Fordingbridge Preceptory ? | Knights Templar built 12th century on site of Saxon church; church owned by Templars, possible preceptory — lacking positive identification; transferred to Knights Hospitallers 1308–12; intact non-parochial chapel incorporated into present parochial church | |||
Godsfield Preceptory | Knights Hospitaller founded before/c.1171; transferred to North Baddesley 1355; chapel on site c.1360-70 | |||
Hamble Priory | Tironensian monks alien house: daughter of Tiron founded between 1109 and 1140 by William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester; dissolved 1391; granted to Winchester College | Priory of St Andrew, Hamble ____________________ Hamble-en-le-rys; Hamblerice; Hamble-le-Rice | ||
Hayling Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: daughter of Jumièges founded after/c.1067 ("by King William, and afterwards by King Henry I"), land granted by William the Conqueror; part of estate (possibly including church and conventual buildings) inundated by the sea 1324-5 and 1340; dissolved 1413; granted to Arundel College 1541/2; granted to the Carthusians at Sheen, Surrey (Greater London); site is now beneath the sea — a number of locations suggested as being the main site | Halling Priory; Hailing Priory | ||
Marwell 'Priory' | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 13th century by Henry de Blois, Bishop of Winchester; secular college for four priests, of whom one was titled 'prior'; dissolved after 1540; granted to Sir Henry Seymore 1551 | SS Stephen, Laurence, Vincent and Quintin, Martyrs ____________________ Merewell Priory; Merewelle Priory | ||
Mottisfont Abbey ^ | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1201 (13th century) by William Brimere dissolved 1536; granted to William, Lord Sandys 1536/7; remains now incorporated into a mansion named 'Mottisfont Abbey' built 1538–40 | The Priory Church of the Holy Trinity, Mottisfont ____________________ Mottisfont Priory; Motisfont Priory | ||
Netley Abbey | Cistercian monks daughter of Beaulieu founded 25 July 1239, projected by Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester on land granted by him before 1238; co-founder with Henry III; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir William Paulet 1536/7; (EH) | The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Edward the Confessor, Netley ____________________ Locus Sancti Edwardi (Lieu-Saint-Edward); Nettely Abbey | ||
Nursling Monastery ? | Benedictine monks founded 8th century by St Boniface; destroyed in raids by the Danes c.878; 'The Walls' reputedly the site of monastery; although argued that the monastery was at Romsey; inconclusive evidence of pre-Conquest foundation from excavations during 1982 | possibly Redford Monastery; Reodford Monastery | ||
Pamber Priory + | Benedictine monks alien house: daughter of St Vigor, Cerisy (Cerisy-le-Forêt); founded 1100 (c.1120-30); dissolved 1135; dissolved 1414; granted to St Julian's Hospital, Southampton; granted to Queen's College, Oxford 1446 and continues in that ownership; priory church extant | St Mary and St John the Baptist ____________________ Monk Sherborne Priory; Sherborne Priory | ||
Portchester Priory + | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1128-9(1133), by William de Pont de l'Arche(d'Arch), chamberlain and sheriff of Hampshire, with the assistance of Henry I within the walls of the castle; site soon proved unsuitable; transferred to Southwick c.1145; dissolved 7 April 1538; granted to John White 1538/9; priory church in parochial use as the Parish Church of St Mary | St Mary ____________________ Porchester Priory | ||
Portsmouth Blackfriars | projected house for Dominican Friars (1225) establishment never implemented | |||
Redbridge Monastery | founded c.680; possible site of ancient monastery under Abbot Cimberth (Cynebert), though more likely at Eling | Reodford Monastery | ||
Romsey Abbey + | nuns probably founded c.907 by Edward the Elder or by Ethelwold, Saxon nobleman Benedictine nuns refounded 967 by King Edgar; dissolved 1539; granted to John Bellow and R. Pigot 1546/7; church now in parochial use | The Abbey Church of Saint Mary and Saint Elfleda, Romsey ____________________ Rumesey Abbey | ||
Sapalanda Monastery | possible monastery, possibly from Winchester Cathedral Priory | |||
Selborne Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1233–34 by Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester (charter dated 20 January 1233/4, confirmed by Pope Gregory IX September 1235); dissolved 1484: house financially and physically dilapidated; annexed by Magdalen College, Oxford 11 September 1484 (confirmed 1485) | Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary | ||
Southampton — Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars founded before 1235; Observant Franciscan Friars refounded 1498; dissolved 1534; Augustinian Friars founded 1534; dissolved 1538; granted to John Pollard 1544/5; granted to Arthur Darcy 1551 | Southampton Austin Friars | ||
Southampton — St Denys's Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1127 (1124) by Henry I; dissolved 1536; granted to Francis Dawtrey 1538/9 | St Denis Priory; St Denys by Southampton Priory | ||
St Leonard's Grange | Cistercian monks grange and chapel dependent on Beaulieu; founded 13th century | |||
Southwick Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular (community founded at Portchester c.1128-9 (or 1133)); transferred here 1145, built 1145-53 (indulgences granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to establish the canons at Southwick); dissolved 7 April 1538 | Our Lady of Southwick | ||
Temple Southington Preceptory | Knights Templar founded before 1240; dissolved before 1308 | Temple Preceptory; Sotherington Preceptory | ||
Titchfield Abbey | Premonstratensian Canons — from Halesowen, Worcestershire (West Midlands) daughter of Halesowen; founded 1232-3 by Peter des Roches (Peter de Rupibis), Bishop of Winchester; dissolved December 1537; granted to Thomas Wriothesley 1537; converted into a mansion named 'Palace House' by 1542, much of which demolished 1781; (EH) | The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint John the Evangelist, Titchfield ____________________ Tychfield Abbey | ||
Ventnor Priory | Historical county location. See entry under Isle of Wight | |||
Wherwell Abbey # | Benedictine nuns founded c.986 by Elfrida, widow of King Edgar, probably on site of Saxon minster; dissolved 21 November 1539; country house named 'The Priory' built on site mid-18th century, immediately to the south-east of the abbey church | The Abbey Church of the Holy Cross and Saint Peter, Wherwell ____________________ Whrewell Abbey | ||
Winchester — St Augustine's Friary, possible earlier site ~ | Augustinian Friars (under the Limit of Oxford) founded before 1300 possibly on a site outside the city wall; in 1342 the Pope instructed the Bishop of Winchester to allow the friars to move from their premises to a site they had procured within the city wall 1341; the Pope sanctioned the move in 1346 (see immediately below) | |||
Austin Friary, Winchester ~ | Augustinian Friars (under the Limit of Oxford) (community founded before 1300 possibly on a site outside the city wall (see immediately above)) transfer sanctioned by the Pope 1346; dissolved 1538; house named 'The Friary' built in the vicinity of the site | |||
Winchester Blackfriars | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of London) founded c.1231 (before 1235); dissolved 1538 | |||
Winchester Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars (under the Custody of London) founded 1237; dissolved 1538; granted 1543/4 | St Francis | ||
Carmelite Friary, Winchester | Carmelite Friars founded before 1268 (1278) by Peter, rector of St Helen's, Winchester; dissolved 1538 | |||
Hyde Abbey | Benedictine monks (community founded at New Minster 901); transferred from New Minster, (see immediately below), 1110 (1109); dissolved 30 April 1539; granted to Richard Bethel 1545/6 | New Minster | ||
New Minster, Winchester | secular canons founded 901 by Edward the Elder, site granted by Alfred the Great; Benedictine monks refounded 964; transferred to new site at Hyde (see immediately above) 1110 (1109) | The New Minster | ||
St. Mary's Abbey, Winchester # | Benedictine nuns founded c.902 (c.900 / 9th century) by Alfred the Great and his queen Ealhswith; completed before 908 by Edward the Elder refounded and rededicated 963 by Bishop Ethelwold; rededicated 1108; destroyed in the siege of Winchester; rebuilt 1141; dissolved 15 November 1539; granted to John Bello and John Broxholme 1546/7 | St Mary ____________________ Nunnaminster Abbey; St Mary's Abbey | ||
Priory of Saint Swithun | fictitious accounts of very early foundation; Saxon monastery built before 642-3 by King Cenwealh; Benedictine monks founded 648; episcopal diocesan cathedral founded c.662/3: see split from Dorchester; damaged in raids by the Danes 860 and 879; repaired; demolished 1093-4 when the East end of the new cathedral church was completed (see immediately below) | The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Winchester The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Swithun in Winchester ____________________ Old Minster | ||
Winchester Cathedral Priory + | secular canons founded c.942–1064: built 1079-1094 by Wakelin, Bishop of Winchester; Benedictine monks founded 964; dissolved 1539; episcopal diocesan cathedral founded 8 April 1093; extant | The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Swithun in Winchester | ||
Wintney Priory | Cistercian nuns founded before 1200 (during the reign of William the Conqueror) by the son of Peter Jeffrey; dissolved 1536; granted to Richard Hill, Esq., Sergeant of the King's Cellar 1538/9; 18th-century Wintney Farmhouse on site | Priory of the Blessed Virgin and St Mary Magdalene, Wintney ____________________ Winteney Priory |
Herefordshire
[edit](For references and location detail see List of monastic houses in Herefordshire )
Foundation | Image | Communities & provenance | Formal name or dedication & Alternative names |
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Aconbury Priory | Sisters of St John of Jerusalem with brethren founded 13th century (c.1200) by Margery (Margaret), wife of Walter de Lacy on a site granted by King John; with a hospital, and attached to the preceptory of Dinmore; Augustinian Canonesses refounded 1237 with Papal permission; dissolved 1539 (?); granted to Hugh de Harry 1541/2; priory church (restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott 1863) in parochial use as the Parish Church of Saint John until 1967 | The Priory Church of the Holy Cross, Aconbury St John the Baptist ____________________ Acornbury Priory | |
Acton Beauchamp Monastery | grant of land 718 (727?) as "perpetual dwelling of servants of God", otherwise unknown | ||
Archenfield Monastery | founded before 914–917, when Cyfeiliog, 'Bishop of Archenfield' was captured by Norsemen | ||
Aymestrey Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine transferred from Shobdon; founded c.1150(?); dissolution unknown: transferred to Wigmore | ||
Barton Priory? | Benedictine monks founded before 1199 (recorded by Gervase of Canterbury — possibly Brockbury (Colwall)) | ||
Belmont Abbey * | Benedictine monks founded 1859; extant Roman Catholic priory-cathedral founded 1859 status raised to abbey-cathedral 1917; dissolved 1920; see transferred to St David's Cathedral, Cardiff | The Abbey Church of Saint Michael and All Angels, Belmont | |
Beodune Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine transferred from Wigmore c.1155; founded c.1155(?); dissolution unknown; transferred to Shobdon after 1155? | Byton Priory? | |
Bosbury Preceptory | Knights Templar founded c.1217–1219 by William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke; dissolved 1308–12; Knights Hospitaller founded 1312; dissolved 1410; merged with Dinmore and Garway 1410; house named 'Temple Court' possibly built on site 18th century | Upleadon Preceptory | |
Cheleburne Priory? | Augustinian Canons Regular (possibly Chirbury Priory, Shropshire) | Chalborn Priory; possibly Pynkney Priory possibly Chirbury Priory | |
Clifford Priory ^ | Cluniac monks alien house: dependent on Lewes, Sussex founded 1129-30 by Simon fitz Richard; became denizen: independent from sometime between 1351 and 1374; dissolved 1536; granted to William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke 1553; site occupied by Priory Farm, which probably incorporates monastic remains | The Blessed Virgin Mary | |
Colwall Priory | Benedictine monks cell dependent on Great Malvern, Worcestershire; founded before 1199; dissolved ? | Brockbury Priory | |
Craswall Priory | Grandmontine monks alien house: dependent on Grandmont; founded c.1225 by Walter de Lacy; dissolved 1462; granted to God's House College, Cambridge 1462 | St Mary's Priory | |
Dinmore Monastery (?) | order and foundation unknown; small monastic community apparently existed prior to the arrival of the Knights (see immediately below) | ||
Dinmore Preceptory | Knights Hospitaller founded before 1189; chapel 14th century; dissolved before 1535: privately leased; granted to Sir Thomas Palmer in 1548; chapel restored 1886 by H F St John | Chapel of St John of Jerusalem; Dynmore Preceptory | |
Dore Abbey +, Abbey Dore | Cistercian monks — from Morimond founded 26 April 1147 by Robert Ewyas; dissolved 1537; granted to John Scudamore 1539/40; church restored 1633 and now in parochial use | Abbey Dore | |
Dulas Monastery | Benedictine monks purportedly founded here; transferred to Ewyas Harold | ||
Ewyas Harold Priory | Benedictine monks cell dependent on Gloucester; founded after 1100 by Harold son of Ralph of the Vexin: church of St Michael granted by Harold, Lord of Ewyas, purportedly first established at Dulas; dissolved 1358 monks withdrawn due to lack of revenue | St James and St Bartholomew | |
Flanesford Priory ^ | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1346/47 by Richard Talbot, 2nd Baron Talbot; dissolved 1537; granted to George, Earl of Shrewsbury 1538/39; converted into a farm; remains now incorporated into a private house | The Priory Church of Saint Mary the Virgin and Saint John the Baptist, Flanesford | |
Garway Preceptory | Knights Templar founded 1185-88: grant made by Henry II; dissolved 1308–12; Knights Hospitaller refounded after 1312; merged with Dinmore before 1489; dissolved before 1535 with Dinmore | ||
Garway Clas | Celtic monks — clas to 11th century? | ||
Hentland Monastery | Celtic monks purportedly founded 6th century by St Dubricius | ||
Hereford Cathedral Priory | secular episcopal diocesan cathedral founded 669 (680); extant; Benedictine monks — abbey? founded c.1025 built early 11th century; destroyed 1055; dissolved before 1066; rebuilt 12th century by Bishop Renhelm | The Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Ethelbert in Hereford | |
Saint Guthlac's Priory, Hereford | probable Saxon minster secular collegiate: St Guthlac's Collegiate Church founded before 1066; Benedictine monks — monastic church or chapel founded c.1101; united with Hereford priory; badly damaged in the Baron's War c.1143; and amalgamated with Hereford Priory 1143; transferred to new site outside the town (see immediately below) | St Guthlac's in the Castle | |
Hereford Priory | secular collegiate: St Peter's Collegiate Church founded before 1084; Benedictine monks transferred from earlier site (see immediately above); dependent on Gloucester; granted to Gloucester Abbey by Hugh de Lacy 1100; dissolved 1538; granted to John ap Rice 1542/43 | St Guthlac St Peter, St Paul and St Guthlac | |
Hereford Blackfriars — earlier site | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Oxford) founded 1246 by Sir John Daniel; transferred to new site 1322 (see immediately below) | ||
Hereford Blackfriars | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Oxford) founded 1246 at earlier site (see immediately above); transferred to new site 1322; dissolved; granted to Elizabeth Wynne 1562/63 | ||
Hereford Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars Minor (under the Custody of Bristol) founded before 1228; dissolved 1538 | ||
Hereford Preceptory | Knights Hospitaller | ||
Holme Lacy | projected house of Premonstratensian Canons c.1235; daughter house of Lavendon; establishment never implemented | St Mary and St Thomas Martyr | |
Kilpeck Priory # | Benedictine monks founded c.1134 by Hugh, son of William the Norman who granted the church to Gloucester; dissolved 1428 when the cell was united to Gloucester; granted to the Bishop of Gloucester | Kilpecke Priory | |
Kinsham Grange | Benedictine monks alien house; | ||
Leominster nunnery | |||
Leominster Priory + | Saxon nuns (possibly also monks) purportedly built c.660 by Merwald, King of West Mercia; destroyed in raids by the Danes 9th century; secular canons collegiate refounded 9th century; nuns 9th century; destroyed 1046; Benedictine monks founded after 1123: ruined monastery granted to Reading by Henry I, confirmed by Richard, Bishop of Hereford; rebuilt 12th century, fully conventual by 1139; dissolved 1539and granted to the bailiffs and burgesses of Leominster | St Peter (660); The Priory Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Leominster (12th century) | |
Leominster Priory | Cluniac monks | ||
Limebrook Priory | Augustinian Canonesses (or Benedictine nuns?) founded c.1189 (during or before the reign of Richard I) by Robert de Lingen or a member of the Mortimer family; Augustinian Canonesses 1516 (in the time of Bishop Booth); dissolved 28 December 1539; granted to John West and Robert Gratwick 1553 | St Mary ____________________ Lymbroke Priory | |
Moccas Clas | Celtic monks reputedly founded 6th century by St Dubricius from Hennland on Wye; dissolved before 1066? | Mochros | |
Monkland Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: cell dependent on Conches founded before 1100; dissolved c.1414 | ||
Much Dewchurch Clas | monks of St David founded 6th century; parochial? before 1066 | ||
Ocle Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: cell dependent on Lyre; founded c.1100 by the ancestors of Robert Chandos; granted to the Carthusians at Sheen, Surrey c.1414; granted to Sir Philip Hobby 1541/42; site now occupied by Livers Ocle farmhouse | Acley Priory; Livers Ocle Priory | |
Shobdon Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine dependent on Bristol; founded between 1131 and 1135 (during the reign of Henry I and tenure of Robert de Bethune, Bishop of Hereford) by Oliver de Merlimound, steward for (and on behalf of) Hugh Mortimer; transferred to [Eye, nr.] Aymestrey c.1150; transferred from Beodune (?Byton) after 1155; transferred to north of Wigmore | ||
Sutton Camera | Knights Hospitaller under Dinmore | ||
Titley Priory # | Tironensian monks apparent alien house: cell dependent on Tiron; founded 1120–21; dissolved 1391; granted to Winchester College c.1535; church rebuilt 1865; house named "Priory Cottage" built on site 16th century | St Peter | |
Welsh Bicknor Clas | dissolved before 1100 | ||
Wigmore Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine (community founded at Shobdon 1131-35); transferred from [Eye, nr.] Aymestry; transferred to Beodune (? Byton) | ||
Wigmore Abbey ^ | Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine — from Shobdon; (community founded at Shobdon between 1131 and 1135); transferred here 1172-79 by Hugh Mortimer, Baron Wigmore; dissolved 1538; granted to Sir Thomas Palmer 1548/49; remains now incorporated into farm and buildings | St James | |
Wormsley Priory | possibly originally a hermitage; Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine founded after 1200 (13th century) (late in the reign of John or early in the reign of Henry III) by Gilbert Talbot; dissolved 1539; granted to Edward Lord Clinton 1545/46 | The Priory Church of Saint Mary and Saint Leonard, Wormsley ____________________ Priory of St Leonard de Pyon; Wormeley Abbey |
Hertfordshire
[edit](For references and location detail see List of monastic houses in Hertfordshire ) [1][27]
Foundation | Image | Communities & Provenance | Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names |
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Ashridge Priory | monastery or college of the Precious Blood; Bonshommes monks founded 1283 by Edmund, Earl of Cornwall; dissolved 16 November 1539 | the Precious Blood | |
Barden Priory? | Augustinian Canons Regular possibly Berden, Essex or the hospital at Bigging (Berdene in Anstey) | St Mary | |
Cathale Priory | Benedictine nuns founded before 1189(?) (c.1200) probably by William de Mandeville; dissolved before 1240; granted to the nuns of Cheshunt by Henry de Bohun; canons removed; chapel survived to 1613 when land acquired by James I; chapel remains extant 1830s | ||
Cheshunt Priory | Benedictine nuns founded before 1183; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir Anthony Deny 1536/7 | Cestrehunt Priory; Chesthunt Priory | |
Flamstead Priory | Benedictine nuns founded c.1150 (during the reign of Stephen) by Roger de Toney; dissolved 1537; granted to Sir Richard Page 1539/40; site now occupied by Beechwood Park School | Flamsted Priory | |
Hertford Priory # | Benedictine monks founded before 1093 (during the incumbency of Abbot Paul and during the reign of William the Conqueror[note 1]) by Ralph de Limesy and granted to St Albans, Hertfordshire after 1077; dissolved 1538; granted to Sir Antony Denny and his wife 1537/8; conventual church demolished after 1540; passed to Sir Thomas Wiley who built the private chapel of St John, demolished 1680 on the orders of the Bishop of Lincoln; site now occupied by parish church | St Mary | |
Hertford Trinitarian Priory | lepers' hospital of St Mary Magdelene (founded before 1199) taken over by Trinitarians; Trinitarian monks founded c.1261; apparently under Easton, Wiltshire until 1448 as a hospital; later under Moatenden; apparently abandoned before 1535(?) | St Mary Magdalene (before 1199) Holy Trinity and St Thomas Martyr c.1261 | |
Hitchin Whitefriars | Carmelite Friars founded c.1317; dissolved 17 October 1538; granted to Edward Watson and H. Henderson 1546/7; site now occupied by Hitchin Priory Hotel, part of cloister arches still visible; 17th/18th century country house built on site | St Mary ____________________ Hitchin 'Priory' | |
Hitchin Priory | Gilbertine Canons[note 2] founded 1361-2 by Edward de Kendale; dissolved 1538 | St Saviour | |
Hitchin Minster | Saxon minster founded before 11th century (references 10th & 11th century); parochial church before 1086 | ||
Muresley Priory, nr Ivinghoe | Benedictine nuns founded between 1107 and 1129, reputedly by Walter Giffard, bishop of Winchester (who died 1129), (or c.1160 or 1133); community evicted; granted to Sir John Dance c.1537 | St Margaret ____________________ Meursley Priory; Mursley Nunnery; St Margaret's Priory; St Margaret's in the Wood, Meuresley; St Margaret's de Bosco; Ivinghoe Nunnery; Ivinghoe Priory; Ivanhoe Monastery | |
King's Langley Priory | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Cambridge) founded before 1308; dissolved 1538; Dominican nuns — from Dartford refounded 1557; dissolved 1558: nuns transferred to Dartford | King's Langley Blackfriars | |
Lannock | Knights Templar founded before 1148 (manor granted to Templars but no preceptory founded); Knights Hospitaller let privately 1338 | ||
Markyate Priory # | hermitage before 1145; Benedictine nuns founded 1145 by Ralph de Langford, Dean and Chapter of St Paul's, through the influence of Geoffrey, Abbot of St Albans; apparently soon destroyed by fire; dissolved 1537; granted to George Ferrers; site now occupied by a manor house named 'Markyate Cell' built on priory remains; parochial church of St John the Baptist built at the south corner of the site | Holy Trinity ____________________ Mergate Priory; Market-Street Priory | |
Mirdial Priory? | purported Augustinian Canons Regular (evidence lacking) | St Mary | |
New Biggin Priory # | Gilbertine Priory priory cell founded 1361-2 by Sir Edward de Kendale; dissolved 1538; granted to John Cokke 1544/5; residence built on site 1585; converted to almshouses c.1812 | St Saviour ____________________ Hitchin Nunnery | |
Redbourn Priory | Benedictine monks cell dependent on St Albans; founded 1178 by Abbot Simon or Abbot Warin built by John, Bishop of Ardfert; plundered by the French 1217; apparently abandoned before 1535; granted to John Cock 1539/40 | St Amphibalus ____________________ St Amphibalus Priory; Redburn Priory | |
Rowney Priory ^(?) | Benedictine nuns founded c.1164 by Conan, Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond; plundered early 15th century; dissolved 11 September 1457; granted to the patron, John Fray, chief baron of the Exchequer, who established a chantry; confiscated by the Crown 1548; 19th century house built on site, said to incorporate fabric from the priory | St John the Baptist ____________________ Rowheing Priory; Rownay Priory | |
Royston Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1173-9 by Ralph de Rochester (on the site of a chapel built by his uncle Eustace de Merk) built in the time of Walter Walensis, Abbot of Colchester; dissolved 9 April 1537; granted to Robert Slete, Esq. 1540/1 priory church converted for parochial use as the Parish Church of St John the Baptist; a Georgian House also built on the site | The Priory Church of St John the Baptist and St Thomas the Martyr | |
St Albans Abbey + | Benedictine? monks founded c.793; lax? c.820; secular collegiate and nuns from before 940; Benedictine monks and nuns c.970 (976) to 1140; Benedictine monks from 1140; dissolved 5 December 1539; parochial thereafter; episcopal diocesan cathedral founded 1877; extant | The Cathedral and Abbey Church of Saint Alban, St Albans | |
St Albans Nunnery | Benedictine nuns — with regular priests or brethren; attached to the abbey, living near the almonry; founded before 940; transferred to Sopwell 1140 | ||
St Mary de Pre Priory | leper hospital founded 1194 by Warin (Garinus), Abbot of St Albans; Benedictine nuns with regular priests or brethren c.1328; Benedictine nuns founded after 1352; abandoned 1528; annexed to St Albans; granted to Ralph Rawlet, Esq. 1540/1 | St Mary de Pré Priory; St Mary de Pre Nunnery; De La Praye Nunnery | |
St Margaret's Priory | Benedictine nuns founded before 1129, possibly by William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester, grants confirmed after his death 1129; dissolved 1536 | Ivinghoe Priory | |
Sawbridgeworth Priory | Benedictine monks probable cell dependent on Westminster Abbey founded c.1135 (late in the reign of Henry I or during that of Stephen); conventual church now in parochial use as the Parish Church of St Mary the Great | ||
Sopwell Priory | purportedly a hermitage prior to Benedictine foundation; Benedictine nuns founded 1140 by Geoffrey, Abbott of St Albans; subject to the abbess of St Albans c.1330; dissolved 1537 | St Mary ____________________ Sopewell Priory | |
Standon Cell | Sisters of the Order of St John of Jerusalem dissolved c.1180: transferred to Sisters of St John Priory, Buckland, Somerset | ||
Standon Preceptory | Knights Hospitaller founded 1147 (before 1154) (during the reign of Stephen) by Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hereford; dissolved before 1443–4; leased out 1330; revived; under a preceptor 1360; leased out before 1443–4 | ||
Standon Priory | hermitage built by William the Anchorite Benedictine monks alien house: cell dependent on Stoke by Clare, Suffolk founded 1173 and 1178 when Richard de Clare Earl of Hertford granted to his monks of Stoke the hermitage; dissolved c.1306; apparently reverted to a hermitage or chapel 1306; granted to Stoke College 1415 | The Priory Church of St Michael of Salburn in Standon ____________________ Salburn Priory in Standon; Salburn Priory | |
Temple Dinsley Preceptory # | Knights Templar founded 1147 (during the reign of Stephen): granted by Bernard de Balliol, preceptory established later; dissolved 1308–12; Knights Hospitaller refounded 1324; let privately 1338; preceptory founded after 1338; leased to the preceptor of Ribstone and Mount St John 1498; let out privately 1507; granted by Henry VIII to Sir Ralph Sadler demolished 1712; site now occupied by The Princess Helena College built 1714 | Temple Dynnesley Preceptory | |
Ware Priory #+ | Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on St-Evroul; founded before 1081, with endowment by Hugo de Grentemaisnil; dissolved 1414; granted to the Carthusians at Sheen, Surrey (Greater London); granted by Henry VIII; The old rectory or manor house built on the site early-17th century, altered 18th and 19th century; conventual church much altered, now in parochial use as parish church of St Mary the Virgin;— little, if any, remaining monastic fabric | ||
Ware Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars Minor (under the Custody of Cambridge) founded 1338 by Thomas second Lord Wake of Liddell, who received the king's permission in February 1338 to give to the Friars Minors property and land; dissolved 1538;; private residence 1544; incorporated into a house named 'The Priory' | ||
Wormley Priory + | Augustinian Canons Regular cell, dependent on Waltham, Essex; founded after 1177 (when church and manor granted to Waltham) and before c.1260; dissolved c.1510(?): alienated from Waltham; church restored 19th century; now in use of parish church of St Laurence | St Lawrence ____________________ Prior Sancti Laurentii de Worem | |
Wymondley Priory, Little Wymondley | hospital founded before 1218 by Richard [de] Argentein; Augustinian Canons Regular founded soon after; hospital continued until 1290; dissolved 6 April 1537; granted to James Nedeham, surveyor of the king's works, 1541/2; site now occupied by a Tudor Tithe barn | St Mary ____________________ Little Wymondley Priory; Wymondesley Parva Priory |
Isle of Wight
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Appuldurcombe House, Wroxall | Benedictine monks alien house dependent on Montebourg; founded c.1100: manor granted by Richard de Redvers to Montebourg Abbey before 1090; dissolved 1414; 16th century Elizabethan house built on site; hotel 1859; leased for use as a college for young gentlemen 1867-1890s; Benedictine monks founded 1901–1908; virtually abandoned 1909; used to accommodate troops in the two World Wars; damaged by a mine 1943; currently a shell internally in ruins; (EH) | St Mary | |
Barton Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular — from Cambridge priory(?) founded 1275 by John Insula, Rector of Shalfleet and Thomas de Winton, Rector of Godshill; dissolved 1439; granted to Winchester College | The Holy Trinity Barton Oratory; Burton College | |
St Mary's Priory, Carisbrooke# | Cistercian monks alien house: priory cell dependent on Lire Abbey; founded c.1156 by Baldwin de Redvers: granted to Lire by William fitz Osbern, Marshall of William the Conqueror; granted to Mount Grace, Yorkshire, by Richard II; Benedictine monks restored by Henry IV; dissolved 1414; granted to the Carthusians at Sheen, Surrey by Henry V | The Priory Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Carisbrooke | |
Carisbrooke Priory * | Dominican nuns currently owned by the Carisbrooke Priory Trust, a registered charity;[28] extant | The Open Door | |
Newport Whitefriars? | Carmelite Friars | ||
Quarr Abbey | Savignac monks founded 27 April 1132 by Baldwin de Redvers (Redveriis); Cistercian monks orders merged 17 September 1147; dissolved 1536; granted to John and George Mills 1544/5 | The Abbey Church of Our Lady of the Quarry Quarrer Abbey | |
Quarr Abbey *, Binsted | Benedictine monks founded 24 May 1907 from Appuldurcombe House current house constructed from the ruined masonry of the former abbey; extant | ||
St Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde * Appley House, Ryde | Solesmes nuns returned to France from exile Benedictine nuns daughter of Liege Abbey; founded at Ventnor 1882; transferred to Appley House 1922; priory attained abbey status 1926; aggregated into the Solesmes Community 1950; extant | Priory of the Peace of the Heart of Jesus Abbey of the Peace of the Heart of Jesus (1926) | |
St Cross Priory | Tironensian monks alien house: cell dependent Tiron; founded before 1132 (c.1120): church founded (in the tenure of Gervase, Abbot de Insula (Quarr)) by Robert Colaws; dissolved 1391; granted to Winchester College; site apparently occupied by a viaduct and railway | ||
St Helen's Priory | Cluniac monks alien house: dependent on Wenlock, Shropshire; founded c.1090 (before 1155); dissolved 1414 | ||
Ventnor Priory, Steephill View | Benedictine nuns daughter of Liege Abbey, Belgium, founded 1882; transferred to Appley House, Ryde 1922; Steephill View house now demolished; Priory Lodge, built 1970, now occupies the site | Pax Cordis Jesu |
Kent
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Aylesford Priory * | Carmelite Friars founded 1242 by Richard de Grey, Lord of Cudnor (Richard, Lord Grey); conventual church built 1242–1248; rebuilt 1348–1417; dissolved 1538; granted to Sir Thomas Wyat 1541/2; church demolished, conventual buildings converted for private residence; rebuilt after fire 1930; Carmelite Friars from 1949 | 'The Friars' | ||
Badlesmere Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 8th century | |||
Badmonden Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular (?)alien house: cell dependent on Beaulieu, Normandy dissolved 1414; granted to St Andrew's Priory, Rochester; dissolved 1540; granted to the dean and chapter of Rochester | |||
Bilsington Priory ^ | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1253 by John Mansell (Maunsel), Lord Chief Justice of England; dissolved 28 February 1536; granted to the Archbishop of Canterbury 1538/9; used as a farmhouse through post-medieval period; remains now incorporated into a house | |||
Blakwose Priory | Premonstratensian Canons cell of Lavendon, Buckinghamshire founded before 1158; transferred to St Radegund's after 1203–4; retained as a grange of the abbey; dissolved c.1377 | Blackwose Priory | ||
Boxley Abbey ^ | Cistercian monks daughter house of Clairvaux; founded 23 October 1143 (1143/46) by William de Ipre, Earl of Kent; dissolved 21 January 1538; granted to Sir Thomas Wyat 1540/1; part of remains now incorporated into a private house | The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Bilsington | ||
Brockley Abbey | Historical county location. See entry under London | |||
Canterbury Austin Friars, earlier site | Augustinian Friars founded 1318 by Richard French, baker (licence granted to Walter Reynolds, Archbishop of Canterbury by Edward II to alienate part of the former Friars of the Sack site to the Austin Friars); transferred to new site (see immediately below) 1324 | |||
Canterbury Austin Friars | Augustinian Friars (community founded at earlier site (see immediately above) 1318); transferred here 1324; rebuilt 1408; dissolved December 1538; granted to G. Harper 1541/2 | |||
Canterbury Blackfriars ^ | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of London) founded c.1236 (c.1221) by Henry III; church built 1237 to after 1244; dissolved 1538; granted to Thomas Wiseman 1559/60; frater currently in use as a church of the Church of the First Church of Christ Scientist | |||
Canterbury Cathedral Priory + | secular canons possibly collegiate founded c.600 (598): Roman church restored by St Augustine with the aid of Æthelberht, King of Kent; episcopal diocesan cathedral founded c.600; extant; Benedictine monks founded 997; rebuilt 1070 under Archbishop Lanfranc; dissolved 1539; | The Cathedral and Abbey Church of Christ, Canterbury, The Cathedral Church of Christ, Canterbury | ||
Canterbury Friars of the Sack | Friars of the Sack founded before 1274; some friars apparently transferred to new site at Cambridge before 1289; dissolved after 1314 | |||
Canterbury Greyfriars, earlier site | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of London) founded 1224; transferred to new site (see immediately below) c.1268 | |||
Canterbury Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of London) (community founded apparently on a site north of the hospital (see immediately above) 1224); transferred here c.1268: founded 1270 by John Diggs, an Alderman of the city; Observant Franciscan Friars transferred 1489; dissolved 1534; Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual transferred from Observants 1534; dissolved 1538; granted to Thomas Spilman 1539/40 | |||
Canterbury — St Augustine's Abbey | Benedictine monks (assumed) founded (598-605) 598 by Æthelberht, King of Kent on the advice of St Augustine; Benedictine monks (re)founded c.960; dissolved 30 July 1538; (EH) | St Peter and St Paul St Peter, St Paul and St Augustine (978) The Abbey Church of Saint Augustine, Canterbury | ||
Canterbury — St Gregory's Priory | secular monastery founded by 1087 (before 1086) by Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury; Augustinian Canons Regular refounded c.1123; church destroyed by fire 1145, rebuilt; dissolved 1536 (1537); granted to the Archbishop of Canterbury 1536/7 | St Gregory's Hospital | ||
Canterbury — St Mildred's Monastery | purported early Saxon monastery; probable minster 8th century | |||
Canterbury — Priory of St Sepulchre | Benedictine nuns founded c.1100 by Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury; dissolved 1536; granted to James Hale 1546/7 | St Sepulchre's Nunnery | ||
Canterbury — St Mary of the Angels Friary * | Franciscan Friars Minor involved in running the Franciscan International Study Centre; extant | Friary of St Mary of the Angels | ||
Cliffe Cell | Cluniac monks | |||
Combwell Priory # | Augustinian Canons Regular abbey founded c.1220 by Robert de Turneham; reduced to priory status c.1220 due to endowment shortfall; disputed between Augustinian and Premonstratensian — found in favour of Augustinians c.1230; dissolved 1536; granted to Thomas Culpepper 1537/8; granted to Sir John Gage 1542/3 | Cumbwell Priory; Combwell Abbey | ||
Darenth Priory | Benedictine monks cell, apparently dependent on Rochester founded after 971: Archbishop Hubert granted the manor of Darent; dissolution unknown | |||
Dartford Blackfriars | Dominican Friars (under the visitation of London) founded 1356; attached to the nunnery (see immediately below); prior and friars recorded 1373; dissolved 1539 | |||
Dartford Priory | Dominican nuns (or Augustinian Canonesses) subject to King's Langley, Hertfordshire founded 1346 by Edward III in the buildings of a former royal palace; dissolved after Elizabeth Cressener[29] died and after 1 April 1539; Henry VIII built a manor house on the site; granted to Edmund Mervyn 1540/1, afterwards becoming the property of the Earl of Salisbury; Dominican nuns — from King's Langley refounded 1558; dissolved after 1559; granted to Anne of Cleves by Edward VI; later used by Queen Elizabeth; alienated by James I; J & E Hall's engineering works built on part of site | St Mary and St Margaret ____________________ Dertford Priory; Dartford Nunnery | ||
Davington Priory +^ | Benedictine nuns founded 1153 by Fulk de Newenham; dissolved 1535; granted to Sir Th |