Table of Religious Houses of England and Wales
This table lists the religious houses mentioned in the Monasticon Anglicanum, together with whatever information provided by the Monasticon, together with additional reference data obtained from the internet in dedicated websites, local history, religious, city, town, village and specialist sites, and, of course, Wikipedia.
The columns included are:
Country (Ctry): Engl, Wales
County (see below)
Name (of religious house)
Aka, if the religious house has alternative name(s)
Order: religious order (see below)
Residents: Monks, Canons, Nuns, Canonesses, etc.
Type: Abbey, Priory, Hospital, Church
Dedication: if known
Cell: cells, alien, daughters, dependencies
Date Founded
Founder
Notes
County
In order to maximise the space available for browsers to display the table, the county names have been shortened beyond the normal forms. Those (mis-)treated this way are:
Cheshire: Ches.
Cornwall: Corn.
Norfolk: Norf.
Northamptonshire: Northan.
Northumberland: Northum.
Somerset: Somers.
Westmoreland: Westm.
Carmarthenshire: Carms.
Monmouthshire: Monms.
Cardiganshire: Cards.
Anglesey: Angle.
Order
The religious orders used are in almost all cases those quoted in the Monasticon Anglicanum, but in a very few cases variants found on authoritative websites have been added or substituted. Abbreviations are as follows:
Benedictine: Benedict
Augustinian: Austin
Bonhommes: Bonhom
Bridgettine: Bridget
Carthusian: Carthus
Cistercian: Cisterc
Cluniac
Dominican: Domin
Franciscan: Francis
Gilbertine: Gilbert
Grandmontine: Grandm
Premonstratensian: Premonst
Trinitarian: Trinitar
The "order" of certain specialised religious houses is often uncertain or undefinable, so Hospitals are labelled "Hospital", Collegiate Churches are labelled "College", and Cathedral Churches are indicated by the an Aka or Order of "Cathedral".
Some Colleges and Cathedral Churches had secular prebendaries as residents and, in these cases, the Order or Residents of "Secular" is used.
Ctry | County | Name | Aka | Order | Residents | Type | Dedication | Cell | Date Founded | Founder | Notes |
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Engl. | Berks. | Abingdon | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | 675 | Either Cissa, or his nephew Hean | For twelve Benedictine monks. Cissa was viceroy of Centwine, king of the West Saxons. | ||
Engl. | Berks. | Wallingford | Benedict | Monks | Priory | Holy Trinity | Cell: St. Albans | 1097 | Robert D'Oyley | Robert D'Oyley was a Norman chief who came over with the Conqueror, and was the holder of Wallingford Castle. | |
Engl. | Berks. | Wallingford | College | Secular | Church | St. Nicholas | Before 1107 | Miles Crispin | In the south-east corner of the outer bailey of the castle of Wallingford. | ||
Engl. | Berks. | Helenstowe | Benedict | Nuns | Nunnery | Holy Cross and St. Helen | 670-680 | Lady Cilla. | |||
Engl. | Berks. | Hurley | Benedict | Secular | Priory | St. Mary | Cell: Westminster | 1086 | Geoffrey de Mandeville | ||
Engl. | Berks. | Reading | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | Virgin Mary and St. John the Evangelist | 1121 | Henry I. | |||
Engl. | Berks. | Reading | Benedict | Nuns | Nunnery | St. Mary | 979 | Queen Elfrida, second wife of Edgar | In repentance for murdering her stepson, Edward, King and Martyr. | ||
Engl. | Berks. | Sandford | Benedict | Nuns | Nunnery | St. Nicholas | 1135-1154 | Robert de Sandford | Robert de Sandford was one of the knights of the abbot of Abingdon. | ||
Engl. | Berks. | Poughley | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Margaret | About 1160 | Ralph de Chaddleworth | |||
Engl. | Berks. | Donnington | Hospital | Hospital | Queen Elizabeth | 1393 | Sir Richard Abberbury the Elder | ||||
Engl. | Berks. | Windsor | College | Secular | Church | St. George, and St. Edward the Confessor | 1348 | Edward III. | |||
Engl. | Berks. | Eton | College | Secular | Church | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1441 | Henry VI. | |||
Engl. | Berks. | Bisham | Austin | Canons | Priory | Jesus Christ. and St. Mary | 1337 | William Montacute earl of Salisbury | |||
Engl. | Berks. | Sandelford | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. John the Baptist | 1193-1202 | Geoffrey, 4th count of Perch, and Richenza-Matilda his wife | |||
Engl. | Beds. | Beaulieu | Bellus Locus | Benedict | Monks | Priory | Unknown | Cell: St. Albans | 1140-1146 | Ralf the hermit | On the site of a hermitage at Moddry in the parish of Clophill, granted by Henry d'Albini, and afterwards by his son, Robert d'Albini. |
Engl. | Beds. | Markyate | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | Holy Trinity | Cell: St. Albans | 1145 | Ralf de Langford | Ralf de Langford was Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. | |
Engl. | Beds. | Warden | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | 1136 | Walter Espec | It was Walter Espec who invited the monks to settle here. | ||
Engl. | Beds. | Woburn | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1145 | Hugh de Bolebec | |||
Engl. | Beds. | Dunstable | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Peter | About 1132 | King Henry I. | |||
Engl. | Beds. | Bushmead | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | 1195 | Hugh de Beauchamp | |||
Engl. | Beds. | Harrold | Austin | Canonesses | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Peter | Alien house: daughter of Arrouaise, Normandy | 1138 | Sampson le Forte | ||
Engl. | Beds. | Newnham | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Paul | About 1165 | Simon de Beauchamp, son of Payn | Founded originally at Bedford about 1165, and transferred here about 1180. | ||
Engl. | Beds. | Caldewell | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. John the Baptist | About 1154 | Simon Basket, or Barescote, Alderman of Bedford | |||
Engl. | Beds. | Toddington | Hospital | Hospital | St. John the Baptist | 1433 | Sir John Broughton | ||||
Engl. | Beds. | Chicksand | Gilbert | Canons and Canonesses | Priory | St. Mary | About 1150 | Roais and her husband Payn de Beauchamp, baron of Bedford | |||
Engl. | Beds. | Northill | College | Church | St. Mary | 1405 | The executors of Sir John Trailly and his son Reynold | ||||
Engl. | Bucks. | Ankerwick | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary Magdalen | About 1160 | Gilbert de Muntfichet, lord of Wyrardisbury | |||
Engl. | Bucks. | Snelshall | Premonst | Canons | Priory | St. Leonard | Before 1166 | Sybil de Aungervill (Dangerville) | |||
Engl. | Bucks. | Snelshall | Benedict | Canons | Priory | St. Leonard | 1219 | Ralph Mortel (grandson of Sybil de Aungervill) | |||
Engl. | Bucks. | Ivinghoe | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Margaret in the Wood | Before 1129 | Thomas Becket | |||
Engl. | Bucks. | Burnham | Austin | Canonesses | Abbey | St. Mary the Virgin | 1266 | Richard, Earl of Cornwall, and King of the Romans | |||
Engl. | Bucks. | Missenden | Austin | Canons | Abbey | St. Mary the Virgin | Alien house: daughter of St. Mary de Bosco, or de Nemore, Ruisseauville, France | 1133 | William of Missenden | ||
Engl. | Bucks. | Tickford | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary | Alien house: cell of the Abbey of Marmoutier at Tours | 1140 | Fulk Paynell | ||
Engl. | Bucks. | Biddlesden | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | 1147 | Arnold de Bois (or de Bosco) | Arnold de Bois (or de Bosco), was steward to the Earl of Leicester. | ||
Engl. | Bucks. | Medmenham | Austin | Canons | Abbey | St. Mary | Cell: Woburn | 1204 | Isabel de Bolebec, Countess of Oxford | ||
Engl. | Bucks. | Notley | Sancta Maria de Parcho | Austin | Canons | Abbey | St. Mary and St. John Baptist | Before 1162 | Walter Giffard, Earl of Buckingham, and Ermgard his wife | ||
Engl. | Bucks. | Chetwode | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary and St. Nicholas | 1245 | Ralf de Norwich | This Priory was annexed with all its Possessions to the Abbey of Nutley, in 1460. | ||
Engl. | Bucks. | Ashridge | Bonhom | Canons | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1283 | Edmund son of Richard, Earl of Cornwall | |||
Engl. | Bucks. | St. John Baptist, Aylesbury | Hospital | Hospital | St. John Baptist | 1100-1135 | Robert Ilhale, William atte Hide, William son of Robert and John Palnok | For the maintenance of lepers and sick persons. | |||
Engl. | Bucks. | St. Leonard, Aylesbury | Hospital | Hospital | St. Leonard | 1100-1135 | Samson son of William, Reginald Wauncy, and others | Founded apparently at about the same time as the Hospital of St. John Baptist, and was intended also to receive lepers. | |||
Engl. | Bucks. | Lavendon | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | St. John Baptist | 1154/5-1158 | John de Bidun, sheriff of Buckinghamshire | |||
Engl. | Bucks. | Newton Longville | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | St. Faith | Alien house: daughter of Ste Foi Abbey, Longueville near Rouen in Normandy | About 1150 | Walter Giffard, Earl of Buckingham | ||
Engl. | Bucks. | Ravenstone | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | 1255 | Peter de Chaseport (Chaceport), Archdeacon of Wells and Keeper of the Royal Wardrobe | |||
Engl. | Cambs. | Ely | Benedict | Monks | Priory | Holy and Undivided Trinity and St. Etheldreda | 970 | Etheldreda | Founded originally in 673, with both Nuns and Monks by Etheldreda but destroyed by the Danes in 870, and re-founded in 970. | ||
Engl. | Cambs. | Thorney | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary and St. Botulph | 972 | St. Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester | St. Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester, was the first abbot of Peterborough. | ||
Engl. | Cambs. | Chatteris | Benedict | Nuns | Abbey | Blessed Vurgin Mary | 1006-1016 | AElfwen, wife of Athelstan, ruler of East Anglia, and her brother, Ednoth, Abbot of Ramsey | |||
Engl. | Cambs. | St. Radegund, Cambridge | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary and St. Radegund | 1133-1138 | John de Cranden, Prior of Ely | |||
Engl. | Cambs. | Denny | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. James and St. Leonard | Cell: Ely | 1159 | Robert, Chamberlain of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany | Denny later became a Preceptory of the Knights of the Temple | |
Engl. | Cambs. | Waterbeach | Benedict | Minoresses | Priory | Virgin Mary and St. Clare | 1293 | Denise, daughter and heir of Nicholas Anesty, and widow of Warin Munchensey, or Mountchesny | |||
Engl. | Cambs. | Swavesey | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Andrew | Alien house: dependent on St. Serge Abbey, Angers | Count Alan Rufus, of Brittany | |||
Engl. | Cambs. | Barnwell | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Giles, and St. Andrew | About 1092 | Picot, lord of Bourn and Madingley, and sheriff of Cambridgeshire | |||
Engl. | Cambs. | Angle. | Austin | Canons | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Nicholas | 1135 | Henry I. | Established initially as a hospital, and became a priory about 1212. | ||
Engl. | Cambs. | Royston | Hospital | Canons | Hospital | St. Nicholas | About 1200 | Amphelise, wife of Theobald son of Fulk and one of the daughters of Robert the Chamberlain | |||
Engl. | Cambs. | Spinney | Austin | Canons | Abbey | St. Mary and the Holy Cross | 1216-1228 | Hugh de Malebisse and Beatrix his wife | |||
Engl. | Cambs. | Marmont | Wells | Gilbert | Nuns and Canons | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary | Before 1204 | Ralph de Hauvill | Monasticon has Marmont in Lincolnshire. | |
Engl. | Ches. | Chester | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1092 | Hugh I., Earl of Chester | Previously the Abbey Church of St. Werburgh, founded after 907, traditionally by Æthelflæd, daughter of King Alfred. | ||
Engl. | Ches. | Birkenhead | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. James the Great | About 1150 | Hamon de Masci, Baron of Dunham Massey | |||
Engl. | Ches. | Chester | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | About 1140 | Ranulph II. De Gurnon, Earl of Chester | |||
Engl. | Ches. | Combermere | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary and St. Michael | 1133 | Hugh Malbane, Lord of Nantwich | Originally Savignac monks, but Cistercian when the orders merged in 1147. | ||
Engl. | Ches. | Poulton | Dieulacres | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary and St. Benedict | 1153 | Robert, butler to Ranulf, Earl of Chester | Transferred to new site at Dieulacres, Staffordshire, in 1214, due to incursions by the Welsh. | |
Engl. | Ches. | Stanlow | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1172 | John Fitz-Richard, the sixth Baron of Halton | |||
Engl. | Ches. | Vale Royal | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary the Virgin, St. Nicholas and St. Nicasius | 1270 | Edward I. | Founded originally at Darnhall, and transferred to Vale Royal in 1281. | ||
Engl. | Ches. | Norton | Austin | Canons | Abbey | St. Mary | 1115 | William Fitz-Neal, constable of Chester and baron of Halton | Founded originally at Runcorn and transferred here in 1134 by William Fitz-William, the founder's son | ||
Engl. | Ches. | Mobberley | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary and St. Wilfrid | Cell: Rocester | About 1203-4 | Patrick of Mobberley | Annexed as a cell dependent on Rocester, Staffordshire 1228-40. | |
Engl. | Ches. | Bunbury | College | Church | St. Boniface | 1385-1386 | Sir Hugh Calveley | ||||
Engl. | Corn. | St. Petroc, Bodmin | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Petroc | 936 | King Athelstan | Supposedly re-founded by King Athelstan in 936, for Benedictine monks, and dissolved in 1113, then re-founded in 1124, for Augustinian Canons. | ||
Engl. | Corn. | St. Mary, Bodmin | Austin | Canons | Abbey | St. Mary | 1124 | Re-founded in 1124, for Augustinian Canons. | |||
Engl. | Corn. | St. Germans | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. German | 1184 | King Athelstan | King Athelstan founded a cathedral here in 926, but the Augustinian priory was reorganized by the Bishop of Exeter before 1184. | ||
Engl. | Corn. | Tresco, Scilly Isles | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Nicholas | 1114 | Monks from Tavistock Abbey | A former monastic settlement on Tresco, Scilly, founded in 946, it was re-founded as the Priory of St. Nicholas. | ||
Engl. | Corn. | St. Michaels Mount | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Michael | Alien house: dependent on Mont-St-Michel, Normandy | 1135-1150 | Robert Earl of Morton gave St. Michaels Mount, in Cornwall, to God and the Monks of the Church of St. Michael de Periculo Maris, in Normandy, in 1085. | ||
Engl. | Corn. | Tywardreath | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Andrew | Alien house: daughter of St-Serge, Angers | About 1088 | Richard fitz Turold, Lord of Cardinham Castle, chief baron of Cornwall | ||
Engl. | Corn. | Launceston | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Stephen | 1127 | Bishop William Warelwast | |||
Engl. | Corn. | Glasney | College | Church | St. Thomas the Martyr | 1265 | Bishop Bronescombe, Bishop of Exeter | At Penryn. | |||
Engl. | Cumb. | Armathwaite | Benedict | Nuns | Nunnery | Virgin Mary | Before 1200 | Supposedly King William II. | |||
Engl. | Cumb. | St. Bees | St. Beges | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary, and St. Bega | Daughter: St. Mary's, York | After 1120 | William Meschin and his wife Cecily | |
Engl. | Cumb. | Wetheral | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Constantine | Cell: St. Mary's, at York. | 1106 | Ranulf Meschin, the first Norman lord of Cumberland | Founded in the valley of the Eden a few miles above Carlisle. | |
Engl. | Cumb. | Seaton | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | Blessed Virgin | Daughter: Nunburnholme, Yorkshire | 1190-1200 | Henry Kirby, son of Arthur, son of Godard, lord of Millom | ||
Engl. | Cumb. | Calder | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Unknown | 1135 | Ranulf Meschin, the first Norman lord of Cumberland | Originally Savignac monks from Furness, but the orders merged in 1147. | ||
Engl. | Cumb. | Holmcultram | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | 1150 | Prince Henry, son of David, King of Scotland | Founded originally by Cistercian monks from Melrose Abbey on land given by Allen of Allendale | ||
Engl. | Cumb. | Carlisle | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | 1122 | Henry I. | |||
Engl. | Cumb. | Lanercost | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary Magdalen | 1169 | Robert de Vaux, son of Hubert de Vaux, lord of Gillesland | |||
Engl. | Derbys. | Derby | St. Mary de Pratis, or King's Mead, Priory | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | 1149-1159 | Abbot Albinus | Founded by Abbot Albinus of nearby Darley Abbey, and located a mile from Darley Abbey, West of Derby. | |
Engl. | Derbys. | Derby | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Helen | 1137 | Towyne, burgess of Derby | This house stood just outside the walls on the north-west side of the town, near the church of St. Alkmund | ||
Engl. | Derbys. | Darley | Austin | Canons | Abbey | St. Mary | Daughter: St. Helen's, Derby | 1154 | Robert Ferrers, second earl of Derby | ||
Engl. | Derbys. | Repton | Austin | Canons | Priory | Holy Trinity | 1153 | Maud of Gloucester, Countess of Cheste | Originally a cell to Calke Priory but when the canons of Calke transferred to Repton in 1172, the two priories' roles reversed and Calke became a cell to Repton. | ||
Engl. | Derbys. | Beauchief | De Bello Capite | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | Blessed Virgin, and St. Thomas the Martyr | Daughter: Welbeck | About 1175 | Robert Fitz-Ranulph, lord of Alfreton and Norton | |
Engl. | Derbys. | Dale | De parco Stanley, or Stanley Park | Austin | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | Cell: Calke Abbey | 1153-1158 | Serlo de Grendon, lord of Bradley | Dale later became a Premonstratensian Abbey with canons from Tupholme, Lincolnshire. founded ?c.1185; |
Engl. | Derbys. | Calke | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Giles | About 1100 | Gregory de Diva | See Repton. | ||
Engl. | Devon | Tavistock | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary and St. Rumon | 961 | Ordgar, Ealdorman of Devon | Completed by his son Ordwulf, in 981. | ||
Engl. | Devon | St. Peter, Exeter | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary and St. Peter | 932 | King Athelstan | The early monastery became Exeter Cathedral Priory. | ||
Engl. | Devon | St. Nicholas, Exeter | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Nicholas | Cell: Battle Abbey | 1087 | William the Conquerer | ||
Engl. | Devon | St. Katherine, Exeter | Polsloe | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Katherine | Before 1160 | |||
Engl. | Devon | St. James, Exeter | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | St. James | Daughter: Abbey of St. Martin-in-the-fields, Paris | 1146 | Baldwin de Redvers, the 1St. Earl of Devon | ||
Engl. | Devon | Modbury | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. George | Alien house: dependent on St-Pierre-sur-Dives | About 1140 | Sir Peter-sur-Dive | ||
Engl. | Devon | St. Mary, Ottery | College | Church | St. Mary | 1338 | John Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter | ||||
Engl. | Devon | Barnestaple | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | St. Mary Magdalen | Alien house: daughter of St-Martin-des-Champs, Paris | About 1107 | Juhel de Totnes, feudal baron of Barnstaple | ||
Engl. | Devon | Buckfast | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | 1136 | Ethelwerd, son of William Pomerei | Originally Savignac monks, but the orders merged in 1147 and became Cisterician. | ||
Engl. | Devon | Dunkeswell | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Holy Trinity | Daughter: Forde, Dorset | 1201 | William Briwere | ||
Engl. | Devon | Newenham | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Virgin Mary | Daughter: Beaulieu, Hampshire | 1247 | Reginald II. de Mohun, Earl of Somerset | Founded on land within his manor of Axminster in Devon. | |
Engl. | Devon | Buckland | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Benedict | Daughter: Quarr Abbey, on the Isle of Wight | 1278 | Amicia, Countess of Devon | ||
Engl. | Devon | Totnes | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Sergius, and St. Bachus | Alien house: cell dependent on St-Serge, Angers | 1087 | Juhel de Totnes, feudal baron of Totnes | ||
Engl. | Devon | Plympton | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Peter and St. Paul | 1121 | William Warelwast, then Bishop of Exeter and a nephew of William the Conqueror | |||
Engl. | Devon | Hartland | Austin | Canons | Abbey | St. Nectan | 1157 | Probably the Botreaux family of Boscastle | |||
Engl. | Devon | Frithelstock | Austin | Monks | Priory | The blessed Mary and St. George | About 1220 | Sir Robert de Beauchamp, Knt. | |||
Engl. | Devon | Torre | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | St. Saviour and Holy Trinity | 1196 | William Briwere | |||
Engl. | Devon | Cloveley | College | Church | All Saints | 1387 | William Cary, lord of Clovelly | It is doubted whether Cary's plans were ever implemented. | |||
Engl. | Dorset | Sherborne | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | 705 | Bishop Aldhelm | Founded originally, at the time of the establishment of the episcopal see at Sherborne in 705 by King Ine of Wessex. | ||
Engl. | Dorset | Wimborne | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Cuthburga | Before 705 | St. Cuthburga | Destroyed by the Danes about 1013, and, in 1043, converted into a college of secular canons. | ||
Engl. | Dorset | Milton | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary, St. Sampson, and St. Branwalader | 933 | King Athelstan | |||
Engl. | Dorset | Shaftesbury | Benedict | Nuns | Abbey | St. Mary, and St. Edward | 888 | Elgiva Wife of Edmund, great Grandson of King Elfred | |||
Engl. | Dorset | Horton | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Wolfrida | Before 971 | Orgar, Earl of Devon | |||
Engl. | Dorset | Cerne | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Edwold | Before 987 | St. Augustine | |||
Engl. | Dorset | Abbotsbury | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Peter the Apostle | 1044 | Ore, Orcus, Orcy or Urce, steward of the palace of King Canute | |||
Engl. | Dorset | Loders | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary Magdalen | Alien house: daughter of St-Mary-de-Montebourg, Normandy | About 1107 | Richard de Redvers | ||
Engl. | Dorset | Frampton | Benedict | Monks | Unknown | Alien house: daughter of St-Etienne, Caen, Normandy | Before 1077 | William the Conqueror | |||
Engl. | Dorset | Tarrant Kaines | Cisterc | Nuns | Abbey | St. Mary and All Saints | About 1100 | Richard Power, Bishop of Chichester (Richard le Poor of Salisbury) | Built by by Ralph de Kahaynes. | ||
Engl. | Dorset | Bindon | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | 1172 | Roger de Newburgh and Maud his wife | Transferred to Great Bindon from the earlier monastery which William de Glastonia and Maud his wife had begun to build at Little Bindon. | ||
Engl. | Dorset | Forde | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Virgin Mary | 1136 | Richard, son of Baldwin de Brioniis | |||
Engl. | Durham | Durham | Benedict | Monks | Priory | Blessed Mary, and St. Cuthbert | 1083 | Bishop William of St. Carileph | |||
Engl. | Durham | Wearmouth | Wirmouth | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Peter | 674 | Benedict Biscop | Wearmouth is on the north side of the River Wear, and in 681 Benedict Biscop built the partner monastery of St. Paul at Yarrow on the south side of the River Tyne. | |
Engl. | Durham | Yarrow | Gyrwy | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Paul | 681 | Benedict Biscop | ||
Engl. | Durham | Finchale | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. John Baptist. and St. Godric | Cell: dependent on Durham | 1115 | St. Godric | Founded originally by St. Godric in about 1115, and became a priory in 1196. | |
Engl. | Durham | Egglestone | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | St. Mary, and St. John | Easby, Yorkshire Daughter: Easby in Yorkshire | 1195-1198 | Ralph de Moulton | ||
Engl. | Durham | Sherburn | Hospital | Hospital | Blessed Virgin, Lazarus, Martha, and Mary | About 1181 | Bishop Pudsey | For the reception and entertainment of sixty-five poor lepers, men and women. | |||
Engl. | Durham | Greatham | Hospital | Hospital | St. Mary, and St. Cuthbert | 1272 | Robert Stichill, bishop of Durham | For forty poor men born on one or other of the bishop's manors. | |||
Engl. | Durham | Owton | Oveton | Gilbert | Nuns and Canons | Priory | Unknown | 1204 | Alan de Wilton | Probably never established, though possibly a grange at Owton Grange near Brierton. | |
Engl. | Durham | Kepier | Kypier | Hospital | Hospital | St. Giles | 1112 | Bishop Flambard | |||
Engl. | Durham | Lanchester | College | Church | All Saints | 1283 | Bishop Bek | ||||
Engl. | Durham | Auckland | Bishop Auckland | College | Church | St. Andrew | 1292 | Bishop Bek | Founded a little earlier, but having fallen into decay, it was reconstituted and endowed in 1292 by Bishop Bek. | ||
Engl. | Durham | Chester le Street | College | Church | St. Mary and St. Cuthbert | 1286 | Bishop Bek | ||||
Engl. | Durham | Staindrop | College | Church | Unknown | 1408 | Ralf de Nevill Earl of Westmorland | ||||
Engl. | Durham | Barnard Castle | College | Church | Blessed Virgin, St. Margaret, and St. Ninian | 1477-1478 | Richard Duke of Gloucester | Richard Duke of Gloucester was brother to King Edward the IV. | |||
Engl. | Essex | Barking | Benedict | Nuns | Abbey | St. Ethelburga, and St. Mary | About 666 | Erkenwald | Founded by Erkenwald, for his sister Etheburga, before he became bishop of London. | ||
Engl. | Essex | Earl's Colne | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary and St. John the Evangelist | Dependent: Abingdon, Berkshire | Before 1107 | Aubrey de Vere | Founded in memory of Godfrey de Vere, the eldest son of Aubrey de Vere and Beatrice his wife, by his parents. | |
Engl. | Essex | Walden | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Mary, and St. James the Apostle. | 1136 | Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex | |||
Engl. | Essex | West Mersea | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Peter and St. Paul | Alien house: dependent on St. Ouen, Rouen | 1046 | Edward the Confessor | ||
Engl. | Essex | Prittlewell | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Alien house: dependent on Lewes, Sussex | 1086-1121 | Robert Fitz-Swain, son of Sweyn of Prittlewell | ||
Engl. | Essex | Stansgate | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | St. Mary Magdalen | Alien house: cell dependent on Lewes, Sussex | 1121 | Ralph, son of Brian | ||
Engl. | Essex | Coggeshall | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary and St. John the Baptist | 1142 | King Stephen and Maud his Queen | Originally Savigniac. | ||
Engl. | Essex | Stratford Langthorne | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | 1135 | William de Montefichet | Originally Savigniac. | ||
Engl. | Essex | Tilty | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | 1152 | Maurice Fitz Geoffrey and his overlord Robert de Ferrers, earl of Derby | |||
Engl. | Essex | Castle Hedingham | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary, St. James, and the Holy Cross | Before 1190 | Aubrey de Vere, first earl of Oxford, and Lucy his wife | |||
Engl. | Essex | Thremhall | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. James the Apostle | About 1150 | Gilbert de Mountfitchet | |||
Engl. | Essex | St. Julian, and St. Botolph, Colchester | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Julian, and St. Botolph | 1108 | The Augustinian settlement at St. Botolph's was not a new foundation, but a voluntary transformation of a secular into a religious establishment in 1108. | |||
Engl. | Essex | Holy Cross, Waltham | Austin | Canons | Abbey | Holy Cross | 1060 | Earl Harold, son of Godwin | Augustinian Canons Regular. Re-founded in 1177 by Henry II. | ||
Engl. | Essex | Little Dunmow | Austin | Canons | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1104 | Juga Baynard, Lady of Little Dunmow | |||
Engl. | Essex | St. Osyth | Chich | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Osyth the Virgin and Martyr | Before 1118 | Richard de Belmeis, bishop of London. | ||
Engl. | Essex | Wix | Wickes | Austin | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | 1123-1133 | Walter and Alexander Mascherell | ||
Engl. | Essex | Woodham | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary and St. John the Baptist | 1175 | Maurice Fitz-Geoffrey of Tiltey, former Sheriff of Essex | Formerly a Hermitage of St. John Baptist. | ||
Engl. | Essex | Ilford | Hospital | Hospital | St. Mary the Virgin, and St. Thomas of Canterbury | About 1140 | Adeliza the sister of Payn Fitz John, and Abbess of Barking | ||||
Engl. | Essex | St. Mary Magdalen, Colchester | Hospital | Hospital | St. Mary Magdalen | 1070 | Eudo Dapifer, Seneschal of King Henry I. | ||||
Engl. | Essex | Hornchurch | Havering | Hospital | Hospital | St. John and St. Bernard | Alien house: Cell to the Hospice of St. Nicholas and St. Bernard, Montjoux, in Savoy | 1159 | Henry II. | ||
Engl. | Essex | Bocking | Maison Dieu | Hospital | Hospital | Unknown | 1440 | John Doreward Esq. | |||
Engl. | Essex | Maldon | Beeleigh | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | St. Mary and St. Nicholas | 1180 | Robert Mantell | The Canons of Great Parndon, founded before 1172, removed to Maldon, in 1180. | |
Engl. | Essex | Little Maldon | Hospital | Hospital | St. Giles | 1164 | Henry II. | ||||
Engl. | Essex | Gaines | Hospital | Hospital | St. Mary and St. Leonard | 1195 | Michael de Capra, and Rose his Wife, and William his Son and Heir | The founders gave land to God and the Church of St. Mary and St. Leonard in their Wood of Ginges. | |||
Engl. | Essex | Pleshey | College | Church | Holy Trinity | 1394 | Thomas Duke of Gloucester | ||||
Engl. | Glos. | St. Peter, Gloucester | Cathedral | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Peter | 681 | Osric | Osric a petty King, or Subregulus, first founded the Church of St. Peter in Gloucester in 680 or 681, it was re-founded about 1058 for Benedictine monks | |
Engl. | Glos. | Tewkesbury | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | 715 | Dodo | |||
Engl. | Glos. | Winchcombe | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Kenelm | 798 | Cenwulf, king of Mercia | The church was dedicated in 811 by Wulfred, archbishop of Canterbury. | ||
Engl. | Glos. | Deerhurst | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Alien house: dependent on St-Denis | Before 1056 | Edward the Confessor | There was a monastery at DeerhurSt. soon after 804 but the Danes burnt Deerhurst and the monastery was rebuilt in or before 970. Edward the Confessor granted the greater part of the lands of Deerhurst to the Benedictine monastery of St. Denis in France to which it became a cell. | |
Engl. | Glos. | Horsley | Benedict | Monks | Priory | Unknown | Alien house: cell dependent on St. Martin, Troarn | 1066-1087 | Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shewsbury | In 1260 Horsley became an Augustinian Priory of Canons dependent on Bruton after the abbot and convent of Trouarn gave all their property in England to the abbot and convent of Bruton. | |
Engl. | Glos. | Kingswood | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Unknown | 1139 | William de Berkeley | |||
Engl. | Glos. | Flaxley | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1151-1154 | Roger, son of Milo Fitzwalter, earl of Hereford | |||
Engl. | Glos. | Hailes | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Unknown | 1246 | Richard, Earl of Cornwall, and King of the Romans | The Abbey of Hayles originally housed twenty Monks who came from Beaulieu. | ||
Engl. | Glos. | St. Oswald, Gloucester | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Oswald | 890-909 | Ethelred Earl of Marches and Ethelfleda his Wife | Soon after the Conquest, this College being impropriated to the See of York, that Archbishop changed the Prebendaries here to Canons Regular in about 1150. | ||
Engl. | Glos. | Llanthony | Llanthony Secunda | Austin | Canons | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1136 | Robert, Bishop of Gloucester | Founded originally in Wales, the Llanthony Canons moved to a new location outside the Walls of Gloucester on a site granted by Miles (Milo) of Gloucester, Earl of Hereford. | |
Engl. | Glos. | Cirencester | Austin | Canons | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1133 | King Henry the I. | |||
Engl. | Glos. | St. Augustine, Bristol | Austin | Canons | Abbey | St. Augustine | 1140-1142 | Robert Fitzharding, a rich citizen of Bristol, Lord of Berkeley | Bristol Cathedral. | ||
Engl. | Glos. | St. James, Bristol | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. James | Cell: Tewkesbury | 1137 | Robert, earl of Gloucester | ||
Engl. | Glos. | Dodford | Austin | Canons | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1184-1186 | King Henry I. | Being decayed, it was united to the Abbey of Hales Owen, 1332. | ||
Engl. | Glos. | Lechlade | Hospital | Hospital | St. John Baptist | Before 1246 | Isabella de Mortimer | ||||
Engl. | Glos. | Billeswike | Gaunt's | Hospital | Hospital | St. Mark | Before 1230 | Maurice de Gaunt, great-grandson of Robert Fitzharding | Near Bristol. | ||
Engl. | Glos. | St. Bartholomew, Gloucester | Hospital | Hospital | St. Bartholomew | 1154-1189 | Nicholas Walred | ||||
Engl. | Glos. | Stanley | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Leonard | About 1131 | The Berkeley family | |||
Engl. | Glos. | Westbury | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Oswald | 963 | Bishop Oswald | Founded originally as a collegiate church at Westbury-on-Trym about 716. | ||
Engl. | Hants. | Winchester | Hospital | Hospital | St. Cross | 1136 | Henry de Blois, Cardinal, and Bishop of Winchester, half Brother of King Henry IV. | Alms-house within the Precinct of St. Crosses at Winchester. | |||
Engl. | Hants. | Hyde | New Monastery | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | Holy Trinity, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Peter | 901 | King Edward, son of King Alfred | ||
Engl. | Hants. | Romsey | Benedict | Nuns | Abbey | St. Mary and St. Elfleda | 907 | King Edward the Elder | |||
Engl. | Hants. | Wherwell | Benedict | Nuns | Abbey | Holy Cross | 986 | Elfrida, wife of King Edgar | Purportedly in expiation for her part in the murders of her first husband Ethelwolf and of her son-in-law King Edward. | ||
Engl. | Hants. | Winteney | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | Blessed Virgin, and St. Mary Magdalen | Before 1200 | Richard Holte and Christine his wife, the daughter of Thomas Cobreth | |||
Engl. | Hants. | Andover | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Alien house: dependent on St-Florent-de-Saumur | Before 1087 | William the Conqueror | ||
Engl. | Hants. | Appledurcombe | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Alien house: dependent on Montebourg | About 1100 | Richard de Redvers | On the Isle of Wight. | |
Engl. | Hants. | Monks Sherborne | Shireburn | Benedict | Monks | Priory | All Saints | Alien house: dependent on abbey of St. Vigor, at Cerisy in Normandy | 1110 | Henry de Port | |
Engl. | Hants. | Quarr | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin | 1131 | Baldwin, the second de Redvers, Lord of the Wight | |||
Engl. | Hants. | Beauleiu | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | 1104 | King John | In the New Forest. | ||
Engl. | Hants. | Netley | Edwardstow (Locum Sancti Edwardi) | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin and St. Edward the Confessor | 1239 | King Henry the III. | ||
Engl. | Hants. | Southwick | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | 1133 | King Henry the I. | Founded originally at Portchester. | ||
Engl. | Hants. | Christchurch, Twyneham | Austin | Canons | Priory | Holy Trinity | 1150 | Baldwin de Redvers, Lord of the Manor of Christchurch and Earl of Devon | Replaced the secular minster. | ||
Engl. | Hants. | Mottisfont | Austin | Canons | Priory | Holy Trinity | About 1200 | William Briwere | |||
Engl. | Hants. | Selborne | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | 1233 | Bishop Peter des Roches of Winchester | |||
Engl. | Hants. | St. Julian, Southampton | Domus Dei | Hospital | Hospital | St. Julian | About 1197 | Gervase le Riche, burgess of Southampton | Reeve of the town in 1185. | ||
Engl. | Hants. | St. John Baptist, Basingstoke | Hospital | Hospital | St. John Baptist | 1261 | Walter de Merton | ||||
Engl. | Hants. | Titchfield | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | Assumption of the Blessed Virgin | 1222 | Peter des Roches Bishop of Winchester | |||
Engl. | Hants. | Carisbrooke | Cisterc | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Alien house: priory cell dependent on Lire Abbey | 1156 | Baldwin de Redvers | On the Isle of Wight. | |
Engl. | Hants. | Breamore | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Michael | 1128-1133 | Baldwin de Redvers | |||
Engl. | Herefs. | Hereford | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Ethelbert, and the Blessed Virgin Mary | About 1025 | Milfrid King of the Mercians built and endowed this Church, and constituted a Bishop here in 696. | |||
Engl. | Herefs. | Ewyas Harold | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. James and St. Bartholomew | 1100 | Harald Lord of Ewyas, son of Ralph of the Vexin | |||
Engl. | Herefs. | Leominster | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Peter and St. Paul | After 1123 | Founded originally for Nuns in 660 by Merwald, King of West Mercia, and destroyed in raids by the Danes 9th century. Founded for Benedictine monks after 1123 as a Cell to Reading and given by King Henry the I. when he built the Abby of Reading. | |||
Engl. | Herefs. | Limebrook | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | About 1189 | Robert de Lingen or one of the Mortimers | |||
Engl. | Herefs. | Craswall | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Alien house: dependent on Grandmont | About 1225 | Walter de Lacy | House of a sub-order called Grandimontenses. | |
Engl. | Herefs. | Monkland | Benedict | Monks | Priory | Unknown | Alien house: cell dependent on Conches | Before 1100 | Ralph Toni | ||
Engl. | Herefs. | Clifford | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary | Alien house: dependent on Lewes | 1129-1130 | Simon Fitz-Richard Fitz-Ponce formerly Lord of Clifford | ||
Engl. | Herefs. | Dore | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Holy Trinity, and St. Mary | 1147 | Robert fitz-Harold of Ewyas, the Lord of Ewyas Harold | A daughter house of the Cistercian abbey at Morimond. | ||
Engl. | Herefs. | Wigmore | Austin | Canons | Abbey | St. James | 1179 | Hugh Mortimer, Baron Wigmore | Founded originally at Shobdon 1131-1135, and transferred to Wigmore. Victorine. | ||
Engl. | Herefs. | Wormsley | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary and St. Leonard | After 1200 | Gilbert Talbot | Victorine | ||
Engl. | Herefs. | Aconbury | Austin | Nuns | Priory | Holy Cross | About 1200 | Lady Margery de Lacy, wife of Walter de Lacy | Sisters of St. John of Jerusalem. | ||
Engl. | Herefs. | Flanesford | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary the Virgin and St. John the Baptist | 1347 | Richard, Lord Talbot | |||
Engl. | Herefs. | Ledbury | Hospital | Hospital | St. Katherine | About 1232 | Hugh Foliot Bishop of Hereford | ||||
Engl. | Herefs. | Ledbury | College | Church | St. Michael, and All Angels | 1400 | John Bishop of Hereford | ||||
Engl. | Herts. | St. Albans | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Alban | About 793 | Offa, King of Mercia | A Benedictine monastery from 1140. | ||
Engl. | Herts. | Hatfield | Hatfield-Peverel | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Cell: St. Albans | Before 1100 | William Peverel | Founded as a secular college before 1087. |
Engl. | Herts. | Hertford | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Cell: St. Albans | Before 1093 | Ralph de Limesi | ||
Engl. | Herts. | St. Mary de Pre, St. Albans | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | Virgin Mary | 1194 | Warin (Garinus), Abbot of St. Albans | For the maintenance of Leprous Nuns. | ||
Engl. | Herts. | Sopwell | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | Cell: St. Albans | 1140 | Geoffrey, sixteenth Abbot of St. Albans | ||
Engl. | Herts. | Flamstead | St. Giles in the Wood | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Giles | About 1150 | Roger de Todeni or Tony | ||
Engl. | Herts. | Cheshunt | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | Before 1183 | Unknown | |||
Engl. | Herts. | Rowney | Great Munden | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. John Baptist | About 1164 | Conan, Duke of Britony and Richmond | ||
Engl. | Herts. | St. Julian, St. Albans | Hospital | Hospital | St. Julian | Before 1146 | Geoffrey Abbot of St. Albans | Near Eyewode. For lepers. | |||
Engl. | Herts. | Thele | Stanstead St. Margaret's | College | Church | St. Margaret | Before 1316 | Sir William Goldington | |||
Engl. | Hunts. | Ramsey | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary and St. Benedict | 969 | Aylwin, foster-brother of King Edgar, and duke of East Anglia | |||
Engl. | Hunts. | St. Ives | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Ive | Cell: Ramsey | About 1017 | Earl Adelmus | ||
Engl. | Hunts. | St. Neots | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Neot | 974 | Earl Alric and his wife Ethelfleda | St. Neot was Son of King Adulphus and Brother of King Alured, who founded the University of Oxford. He was said (by leland) to be a Monk at Neotestoke, in Cornwall. | ||
Engl. | Hunts. | Hinchinbrook | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. James | Before 1087 | William the Conqueror | |||
Engl. | Hunts. | St. Mary, Huntingdon | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | 1108 | Eustace de Lovetot, Baron of Lovetot | |||
Engl. | Hunts. | St. Margaret, Huntington | Hospital | Hospital | St. Margaret | Before 1165 | Malcolm IV of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon | For lepers. | |||
Engl. | Hunts. | Sawtre | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1147 | Simon de Senliz, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton | Simon de Senliz, Earl of Northampton, was grandson of Earl Waltheof and Judith, the Conqueror's niece, and held the manor when the Domesday Survey was compiled. | ||
Engl. | Hunts. | Stoneley | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | About 1180 | William Mandeville, Earl of Essex | By Kimbolton. | ||
Engl. | Kent | Canterbury | Cathedral | Benedict | Monks | Priory | Christchurch | 597 | St. Augustin | ||
Engl. | Kent | Rochester | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Andrew | 600 | King Ethelbert, king of Kent | |||
Engl. | Kent | Minster in Thanet | Benedict | Nuns | Abbey | St. Domneva | 669 | Domneva | Founded by Domneva, King Egbert's niece, on land donated by her uncle, and later led by her daughter Mildred, whose father was Merwaldus Son of Penda King of Mercia. This House was destroy'd by the Pagan Danes in the year 1011. | ||
Engl. | Kent | Folkestone | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary and St. Eanswith | Before 640 | Eadbald, King of Kent, and son of Ethelbert, King of Kent | Eadbald is said to have built here for his daughter Eanswith or Easwida, a Monastery near the Sea, which in process of time wore away the Land, and destroyed this House. | ||
Engl. | Kent | Folkestone | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary and St. Eanswith | Alien house: dependent on Lonlay | 1095 | Nigel de Munevilla, lord of Folkestone, and Emma his wife | Founded as a new monastery in 1095 by Nigel de Munevilla, lord of Folkestone, and Emma his wife by granting the church of St. Mary and St. Eanswith, Folkestone, and all the churches of their demesne pertaining to the honour of Folkestone, to the Benedictine abbey of Lonlay in France. | |
Engl. | Kent | Lyminge | Benedict | Nuns | Abbey | St. Mary | 633 | Ethelburga, Daughter of King Ethelbert, and Wife of Edwin King of Northumberland | Ethelburga's brother Eadbald, king of Kent, had granted Lyminge to her. | ||
Engl. | Kent | Reculver | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | 669 | King Egbert, King of Kent | |||
Engl. | Kent | Minster in Sheppey | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary and St. Sexburga | About 670 | Queen Sexburga, daughter of Anna, king of the East Angles | William Archbishop of Canterbury, after the ConqueSt. restored this Monastery, it having lain a long time burnt down and destroyed by the Danes. | ||
Engl. | Kent | Malling | Benedict | Nuns | Abbey | St. Mary | About 1099 | Gundulf, bishop of Rochester | In 1190, the monastery and nearly all the town were consumed by fire. | ||
Engl. | Kent | Davington | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary Magdalene | 1153 | Fulk de Newenham | |||
Engl. | Kent | Lillechurch | Higham | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary and St. Sulpice | 1148 | Mary daughter of King Stephen | Mary was Abbess at the abbey of St. Sulpice, at Rennes in Brittany, and after a short stay at St. Leonard, Stratford at Bow, she agreed to move to Lillechurch. | |
Engl. | Kent | Lewisham | Benedict | Monks | Priory | Unknown | Alien house: cell dependent on the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul at Ghent, in Flanders. | 918 | Elstrudis, countess of Flanders, with her sons Arnulf and Adelulf | ||
Engl. | Kent | Patrixsbourn | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Alien house: cell dependent on Beaulieu, Normandy | About 1200 | John de Pratellis | ||
Engl. | Kent | Monks Horton | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | St. John the Evangelist | Alien house: cell dependent on Lewes, Sussex | About 1142 | Robert de Vere, son of Bernard de Vere and constable of England, and his wife Adelina the daughter of Hugh de Montfort | ||
Engl. | Kent | Faversham | Cluniac | Monks | Abbey | St. Saviour | 1148 | King Stephen and his queen Maud | It was still described as Cluniac in the charter of Henry III., but it appears to have joined the main Benedictine order by 1288. | ||
Engl. | Kent | Boxley | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | Daughter of Clairvaux, France | 1146 | William de Ypres | William de Ypres was a son of the count of Flanders, and a Commander in King Stephens Army. | |
Engl. | Kent | Dover | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | 640 | Eadbald, king of Kent | Eadbald placed twenty four Secular Canons in the church inside Dover Castle. But by 1139 it had become a Benedictine Priory subject to Christchurch, Canterbury. | ||
Engl. | Kent | Dover | Maison Dieu | Hospital | Hospital | St. Mary | Before 1221 | Hubert de Burgh, earl of Kent, justiciary of England | For the maintenance of the poor and infirm and pilgrims. | ||
Engl. | Kent | Leeds | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary and St. Nicholas | 1119 | Robert de Crepido Corde or Crevequer | |||
Engl. | Kent | Bradsole | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | St. Radegund | 1193 | Hugh, who was the first abbot | Hugh came directly from the chief house of the order at Prémontré. | ||
Engl. | Kent | Tonbridge | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary Magdalen | Before 1192 | Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford | |||
Engl. | Kent | Combwell | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary Magdalen | About 1220 | Robert de Turneham | Founded originally as an Abbey. | ||
Engl. | Kent | Lesnes | Westwood | Austin | Canons | Abbey | St. Thomas the Martyr | 1178 | Richard Lucy, Prefect of England | ||
Engl. | Kent | Bilsington | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | 1253 | John Mansel, ProvoSt. of Beverley | |||
Engl. | Kent | Dartford | Domin | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary and St. Margaret | Before 1356 | King Edward the III. | Nuns of St. Augustines Order, living under the Care of the Friar Preachers of Langley. | ||
Engl. | Kent | St. Gregory, Canterbury | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Gregory | Before 1086 | Lanfranc Archbishop of Canterbury | Without the North-Gate of the City, and for infirm Men, and Women to live a part in separate Divisions of the House. | ||
Engl. | Kent | Romney | Hospital | Hospital | St. Stephen, and St. Thomas | 1180-1185 | Adam Cherryng | For the maintenance of certain Lepers. | |||
Engl. | Kent | Harbledown | Hospital | Hospital | St. Nicholas | Before 1089 | Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury | For Lepers. | |||
Engl. | Kent | Strood | Hospital | Canons | Hospital | St. Mary | 1193 | Gilbert de Glanville, Bishop of Rochester | For the Receit of Poor, Weak and infirm People. | ||
Engl. | Kent | Hythe | Hospital | Hospital | St. Andrew | 1336 | Hamon Bishop of Rochester | For thirteen poor People. | |||
Engl. | Kent | Dartford | Hospital | Hospital | Holy Trinity | 1453 | John Bamburgh, William Rothele, Roger Jonet, and Thomas Boost | An Alms House, for five poor decrepid Men. | |||
Engl. | Kent | West Langdon | Premonst | Canons | Priory | St. Mary and St. Thomas the Martyr | Daughter: Abbey of Leiston in Suffolk | 1189 | William de Auberville | ||
Engl. | Kent | Moatendon | Headcorn | Trinitar | Friars | Friary | Holy Cross | 1224 | Sir Robert de Rokeslay, Knight | ||
Engl. | Kent | Wingham | College | Church | St. Mary | 1286 | John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury | Provost and a College of ten secular Canons, in the Parish Church of Wingham. | |||
Engl. | Kent | Wye | College | Church | St. Gregory and St. Martin | 1448 | John Kemp, Archbishop of York | ||||
Engl. | Kent | Bredgar | College | Church | Holy Trinity | 1392 | Master Robert de Bradegare, Clerk | ||||
Engl. | Kent | Maidstone | College | Church | All Saints | 1396 | William de Courtney, Archbishop of Canterbury and Legate | ||||
Engl. | Kent | Sutton | Hospital | Hospital | St. John's Jerusalem | Before 1199 | Jeffrey Fitz-Peter Earl of Essex | ||||
Engl. | Lancs. | Penwortham | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Cell: Abbey of Evesham | 1086-1096. | Warin Bussell | ||
Engl. | Lancs. | Lytham | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Cuthbert | Cell: Durham | 1189-1194 | Richard, son of Roger, of Woodplumpton in Amounderness | ||
Engl. | Lancs. | Upholland | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Thomas the Martyr | 1319 | Bishop Walter Langton of Coventry and Litchfield | Founded originally by Sir Robert de Holland, Knt., as a Collegiate in 1310. | ||
Engl. | Lancs. | Lancaster | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Alien house: dependent on Abbey of St. Martin at Séez, Normandy | 1094 | Roger of Poitou | ||
Engl. | Lancs. | Furness | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | 1127 | Stephen, then count of Boulogne and Mortain, and lord of Lancaster, afterwards King of England | |||
Engl. | Lancs. | Cartmel | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | 1189-1194 | William Marshal, baron of Cartmel, afterwards earl of Pembroke | |||
Engl. | Lancs. | Burscough | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Nicholas | 1186 | Robert son of Henry, lord of Lathom and Knowsley | |||
Engl. | Lancs. | Conishead | Austin | Canons | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1188 | William de Lancaster II., baron of Kendal | Founded originally as a Hospital in 1160. | ||
Engl. | Lancs. | Longridge | Stidd under Longridge | Hospital | Hospital | St. Saviour | In the township of Dutton and parish of Ribchester. | ||||
Engl. | Lancs. | Cockersand | Premonst | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | Cell: dependent on Croxton, Leicestershire | After 1184 | William of Lancaster | Founded originally as a Hospital by Hugh Garth, a hermit. | |
Engl. | Lancs. | Manchester | College | Church | Assumption of the Virgin | 1421 | Thomas la Warre | ||||
Engl. | Leics. | Langley | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | About 1150 | William Pantulf and Burgia his Wife | |||
Engl. | Leics. | Hinckley | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | Alien house: priory cell dependent on Lyre in Normandy | Before 1173 | Robert le Bossu, Earl of Leicester | ||
Engl. | Leics. | Garendon | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | Daughter: house of Waverley | 1133 | Robert, Earl of Leicester | ||
Engl. | Leics. | Grace Dieu | Austin | Canonesses | Priory | Holy Trinity and St. Mary | 1239-1240 | Rose de Verdon | |||
Engl. | Leics. | Breedon | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary, and St. Hardulph | Cell: dependent on Nostell, Yorkshire | 1109-1122 | Robert de Ferrers, later 1St. Earl of Derby | ||
Engl. | Leics. | Launde | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. John the Baptist | 1119-1125 | Richard Basset and his Wife Maud | |||
Engl. | Leics. | Owston | Austin | Canons | Abbey | St. Andrew | Before 1161 | Sir Robert Grimbald | |||
Engl. | Leics. | Leicester | Austin | Canons | Abbey | Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary | 1143 | Robert le Bossu, Earl of Melent and Leicester | |||
Engl. | Leics. | Bradley | Austin | Canons | Priory | Unknown | 1220-1233 | Robert Bundy | |||
Engl. | Leics. | Kirby Bellairs | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Peter | 1359 | Sir Roger Beller | Founded originally as a Chantry of one Custos and twelve Chaplains, in the Chapel of St. Peter in Kirby in 1316. | ||
Engl. | Leics. | Burton Lazars | Hospital | Hospital | St. Mary, and St. Lazarus of Jerusalem | 1138-1162 | Roger de Mowbray | For Leperous people. | |||
Engl. | Leics. | St. Leonard, Leicester | Hospital | Hospital | St. Leonard | Before 1308 | William the Leper, son of Robert ès Blanchemains, Earl of Leicester | ||||
Engl. | Leics. | St. Mary, Leicester | Hospital | Hospital | St. Mary | 1330 | Henry, Duke of Lancaster | Near the Castle in Leicester. | |||
Engl. | Leics. | Stockerston | Hospital | Hospital | Virgin Mary | 1468 | Sir John de Boyville | ||||
Engl. | Leics. | Croxton Kerrial | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | St. John the Evangelist | Before 1159 | William, Count of Boulogne and Mortain | |||
Engl. | Leics. | Leicester | College | Canons | Church | St. Mary | 1353 | Henry, Duke of Lancaster | Henry, created Duke of Lancaster in 1351, enlarged his father's foundation, and in 1353, obtained the Pope's permission for the transformation of the hospital into a college with a dean and canons. | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Bardney | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Peter, St. Paul, and St. Oswald | Alien house: dependent on Charroux | 1087 | Gilbert of Ghent, nephew of the William the Conqueror | Founded originally by King Ethelred, and Queen Osthryd not later than 697, but destroyed by the Danes. | |
Engl. | Lincs. | Croyland | Crowland | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary the Virgin, St. Bartholomew and St. Guthlac | 948 | King Edred | Founded by Ethelbald, King of Mercia, in the year 716, who gave the whole Isle of Crowland, for the erecting of a Monastery under the Rule of St. Benedict. | |
Engl. | Lincs. | Spalding | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Cell: dependent on Croyland | 1051 | Thorold of Buckenhale, sheriff of Lincoln | Thorold of Buckenhale, was brother to Godiva, Countess of Leicester. | |
Engl. | Lincs. | Belvoir | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Cell: dependent on the Abbey of St. Albans | 1076 | Robert de Todeni, lord of Belvoir | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Sandtoft | Benedict | Monks | Cell | Unknown | Cell: dependant on St. Mary's at York | 1147-1186 | Roger de Mowbray | Roger Mowbray gave the Isle of Santoft, in Axholme. | |
Engl. | Lincs. | Henes | Benedict | Monks | Cell | Unknown | Cell: dependent on St. Mary's at York | 1147-1186 | William Earl of Warenne | There is no evidence that there was ever a monastery built at Henes, except a notice of protection 'for the Prior of Henes' on the Patent Roll of 1322. | |
Engl. | Lincs. | Freiston | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. James | Cell: dependent on the Abbey of Crowland | 1144 | Alan de Creun, with Muriel his Wife, and Maurice his Son | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Deeping | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. James | Cell: dependent on Thorney Abbey, Cambridgeshire | 1139 | Baldwin Fitz Gilbert | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Stixwould | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | St. Peter | About 1135 | Lucy countess of Chester | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | Stixwould | Premonst | Canonesses | Priory | St. Mary | 1537 | Henry VIII. | Refounded by king Henry VIII. under the Premonstratensian rule, in 1537, using the site of the old Cistercian Priory. | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Stamford | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Leonard | Cell: dependent on Durham | After 1083 | William, Abbot of Peterborough | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Fosse | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | Unknown | Before 1184 | Citizens of Torksey | Now in Torksey. | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Stainfield | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | About 1154 | Henry, Son of William de Percy | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | Covenham | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Alien house: cell dependent on St-Calais (St. Carileph), Le Mans, France | 1082 | William the Conqueror | Founded at the instance of William de St. Carilef (St. Calais), Bishop of Durham. | |
Engl. | Lincs. | Burwell | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Michael | Alien house: cell dependent on La Grande-Sauve, Majeure near Bordeaux | About 1110 | Ansgot of Burwell | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Wilsford | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Alien house: cell dependent on Bec-Hellouin and the priory of Envermeu, Normandy | 1135-1154 | Hugh de Evermue (Evremewe) | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Minting | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Andrew | Alien house: dependent on the Abbey of Fleury, St-Benoit-sur-Loire | Before 1129 | Ranulf de Meschines, earl of Chester | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Long Bennington | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Swithun | Alien house: grange dependent on Savigny | About 1200 | Ralph de Filgeries | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Hough | Austin | Canons | Priory | Alien house: dependent on the Abbey of Notre-Dame-du-Voeu-Cherbourg | About 1164 | Henry I | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | Swineshead | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | 1135 | Robert de Gresley | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | Louth Park | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | Daughter: dependent on Fountains, Yorkshire | 1139 | Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln | Monks for it came from the Abbey of Fountains. | |
Engl. | Lincs. | Kirkstead | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Leonard | 1139 | Hugh Brito, otherwise Hugh son of Eudo, lord of Tattershall | Transferred to new site in 1187. | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Revesby | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary and St. Laurence | 1143 | William de Romara, lord of Bolingbroke, and son of Lucy countess of Chester by a former husband, Earl of Lincoln | Originally Savignac monks but became Cistercian when the orders merged in 1147. | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Vaudey | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin | Daughter: Fountains, Yorkshire | 1147 | William le Gros, Earl of Albemarle | It was at first located at Bytham, but afterwards Vallis-dei. | |
Engl. | Lincs. | Greenfield | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | 1153 | Eudo of Grainsby and Ralf of Aby | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | Legbourne | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | About 1150 | Robert Fitz-Gilbert of Tathwell | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | Nuncotham | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | 1147-1153 | Alan de Muncells (Moncels) | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | Axholme | Epworth | Carthus | Monks | Priory | Visitation of St. Mary Virgin | 1395 | Thomas, Earl of Nottingham, Marshal of England | Afterwards duke of Norfolk, on his Land at Epworth, in the Isle of Axholme. | |
Engl. | Lincs. | Hirst | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | Cell: dependent on Nostell | Before 1135 | Nigel d'Albini | As a gift to the prior and convent of St. Oswald's, Nostell. | |
Engl. | Lincs. | Thornton | Austin | Canons | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1139 | William le Gros, earl of Albemarle and lord of Holderness | Stocked with Canons Regular from Kirkham. | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Nocton Park | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary Magdalen | About 1118 | Robert Darcy, Lord of Nocton | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | Thornholme | Austin | Canons | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary | About 1150 | King Stephen | The priory stood in the manor of Appleby, which passed afterwards into the hands of John Malherbe, and, in 1271-2 the prior acknowledged John Malherbe as founder. | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Bourne | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Peter and St. Paul | 1138 | Baldwin, a younger son of Gilbert de Clare and brother of the first earl of Pembroke | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | Kyme | Austin | Canons | Priory | Blessed Mary | Before 1169 | Philip of Kyme, steward to Gilbert, Earl of Lincoln | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | Torksey | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Leonard | 1133-1189 | Possibly Henry II. | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | Grimsby | Wellow | Austin | Nuns | Priory | St. Augustine and St. Olaf | 1123-1133 | King Henry the I. | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Holy Innocents, without Lincoln | La Maladerie | Hospital | Hospital | Holy Innocents | About 1100 | King Henry the I. | For ten Lepers. | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | St. John Baptist, and St. Thomas the Martyr, at Stamford Bridge | Hospital | Hospital | St. John Baptist, and St. Thomas the Martyr | 1323 | |||||
Engl. | Lincs. | Lincoln | Cathedral | Benedict | Church | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1078 | William I. | When William I moved the see of Dorchester to Lincoln in 1078, the cathedral church was built by Bishop Remigius as the "mother church of all the bishopric of Lincoln", completed within the lifetime of the first bishop, who died, however, four days before its consecration in 1092. | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Elsham | Hospital | Hospital | St. Mary and St. Edmund | Before 1160 | Beatrice d'Amundeville | Finished by Walter de Amundevil. The hospital was for the maintenance of Hospitality and and Sustentation of poor People, and later became an Augustin Priory. | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | Elsham | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary and St. Edmund | Before 1166 | Beatrice d'Amundeville | The Augustin Priory that replaced the hospital. | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Newstead | Hospital | Hospital | Blessed Mary ever Virgin | Before 1200 | William de Albini the III. | At the Bridge of Wass between Stamford and Offington. Later became an Augustin Priory. | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | Newstead | Austin | Canons | Priory | Blessed Mary ever Virgin | Before 1247 | Probably the son of William de Albini the III. | The replacement Augustin Priory. | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Holbeach | Hospital | Hospital | All Saints | 1351 | John de Kirton, Knt. | For fifteen poor People. | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | Newhouse | Newsham | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | St. Mary and St. Martial | Daughter: of Licques | 1143 | Peter de Gousel | |
Engl. | Lincs. | Tupholme | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | St. Mary | Daughter: of Newsham | Before 1190 | Gilbert de Neville and his brother Alan | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Newbo | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | Assumption of Blessed Mary | Daughter: of Newsham | 1198 | Richard Malebisse | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Hagneby | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | St. Thomas the Martyr | Daughter: of Welbeck, Nottinghamshire | 1175 | Lady Agnes de Orreby, Widow of Herbert de Orreby | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Barlings | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | Daughter: of Newsham | 1154 | Ralph de Haya, son of the constable of Lincoln Castle, and lord of Burwell and Carlton | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Sempringham | Gilbert | Nuns and Canons | Priory | St. Andrew | 1131 | Gilbert of Sempringham | Gilbert of Sempringham left the household of Alexander, bishop of Lincoln, to establish the order. | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Sempringham | Gilbert | Canons and Canonesses | Priory | St. Mary | 1139 | Gilbert de Gant | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | Haverholme | Cisterc | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | 1137 | Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln | Transferred to the Gilbertines at Louth park in 1139. | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Bullington | Gilbert | Canons and Canonesses | Priory | St. Mary | 1154 | Simon Fitz-William, son of William de Kyme | In his Park of Bullington. | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Alvingham | Gilbert | Canons and Canonesses | Priory | St. Mary | 1148-1154 | Possibly Hugh de Scotney | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | North Ormesby | Gilbert | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | 1148-1154 | Gilbert Son of Robert de Ormesby | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | Sixhills | Gilbert | Canons and Canonesses | Priory | St. Mary | 1148-1154 | Robert de Gresley (Grelle), or his son | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | Mattersey | Gilbert | Canons | Priory | St. Helen | 1185 | Roger FitzRalph, son of Ranulf de Mattersey | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | Newstead-on-Ancolme | Gilbert | Canons | Priory | Holy Trinity | 1171 | King Henry the II. | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | Catley | Gilbert | Canons and Canonesses | Priory | St. Mary | 1148-1154 | Peter of Billinghay | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | St. Catherine, outside Lincoln | Gilbert | Canons | Priory | St. Catherine | After 1148 | Robert de Chesney, bishop of Lincoln | Soon after the confirmation of the order of Sempringham by Eugenius III. in 1148. | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Heynings | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | About 1150 | Rayner de Evermue, Lord of Knaith | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | Bridgend in Horbling | Gilbert | Canons | Priory | St. Saviour | Before 1199 | Godwin, a Rich man of Lincoln | Near Horbling and Holland Brigg. | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Grimsby | Gilbert | Canonesses | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary | Before 1184 | Probably Henry II. | Under the protection of the Canons at Wellow by Grimsby. | ||
Engl. | Lincs. | Tattershall | College | Church | Holy Trinity | 1439 | Ralph, Lord Cromwell, Knt., then treasurer of the realm | Together with an almshouse for thirteen poor people. | |||
Engl. | Lincs. | Glanford Brigg | Hospital | Hospital | 1190-1199 | Adam Paynel, lord of the manor of Broughton | |||||
Engl. | London | St. Botulph, Aldgate | Francis | Minoresses | Priory | The Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Francis | 1293 | Edmund, Earl of Lancaster and Brother of King Edward the I., and his Wife, Blanch Queen of Navarre | A House in the Parish of St. Botulphs without Algate, for Nuns of the Order of Minoresses, there to remain in the service of God, the blessed Mary, and St. Francis. | ||
Engl. | London | Abbey of Grace, Aldgate | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary of Graces | 1350 | King Edward the III. | In the Church-yard of the Holy Trinity near the Tower at London. | ||
Engl. | London | Charterhouse | Carthus | Monks | Priory | Salutation of the Mother of God | 1371 | Sir Walter de Manny | Without the Bars of West-Smithfield, and to be called la Salutation mere dieu. | ||
Engl. | London | Holy Trinity, Aldgate | Christchurch | Austin | Canons | Priory | Holy Trinity | 1107 or 1108 | Maud, queen of Henry I. | ||
Engl. | London | St. Bartholomew | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Bartholomew | 1123 | Rahere, clerk, and King Henry I. | Founded in Smithfield. | ||
Engl. | London | St. Bartholomew | Hospital | Hospital | St. Bartholomew | 1123 | Rahere, clerk | The hospital of St. Bartholomew was founded at the same time as the priory, for the receit of all poor infirm People, till such time as they should be cured of their Infirmities. | |||
Engl. | London | St. Giles | St. Giles in the Fields | Hospital | Hospital | St. Giles | 1117 or 1118 | Queen Maud Wife of King Henry the I. | Built on the West-side of London for the Relief of Leperous People, with an Oratory, and called the Hospital of St. Giles. Became a Cell of the Order of Burton St. Lazarus in England | ||
Engl. | London | St. Mary, of Bethlehem | Hospital | Hospital | St. Mary | 1247 | Simon Fitz-Mary Citizen of London | In the Parish of St. Botulph without Bishopsgate. Simon's land was given to Godfrey, bishop of Bethlehem, to create a house of canons, brothers and sisters in the Church of St. Mary of Bethlehem. | |||
Engl. | London | St. Mary, without Bishopsgate | Hospital | Hospital | St. Mary | 1197 | Walter son of Eildred, an alderman | On a parcel of Land given for that purpose by Walter Brown, a London citizen, and Rose his wife. | |||
Engl. | London | St. Thomas of Acon | Hospital | Hospital | St. Mary and St. Thomas of Canterbury | About 1230 | Thomas Fitz Theobald de Helles | Thomas' wife Agnes was sister of the murdered archbishop. Founded for a master and brethren of the military order of St. Thomas the Martyr. | |||
Engl. | London | St. Mary Rouncivall | Hospital | Hospital | St. Mary | Cell: of the Priory of St. Mary at Rouncivall in Navarre | Before 1231 | William Marshal, earl of Pembroke | Near Charing-Cross. | ||
Engl. | London | Domus Conversorum | House of Converts | Hospital | Hospital | Unknown | 1232 | King Henry the III. | In New Street, the present Chancery Lane, as a hospital for Jews who had been converted to Christianity. | ||
Engl. | London | St. Katherine | Hospital | Hospital | St. Katherine | About 1148 | Matilda the wife of King Stephen | For a master, brethren, sisters, and thirteen poor persons near the Tower. | |||
Engl. | London | Elsing Spittle | St. Mary within Cripplegate | Hospital | Hospital | St. Mary | 1329 | William Elsing Citizen and Mercer of London | Founded as a Priory, consisting of one Warden and four Secular Priests, and an Hospital of poor People in the Parishes of St. Alphege, and St. Mary Aldermanbury. | ||
Engl. | London | Barking Church | Hospital | Hospital | Unknown | 1369 | Robert Denton, Chaplain | Founded near the Tower within the Parish of Barking-Church, London, for the Habitation of poor Priests and other poor men and Women, who fall into Frensies and lose their Memory. | |||
Engl. | London | Savoy | Hospital | Hospital | Blessed Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and St. John the Baptist | 1505 | King Henry the VII. | On the south side of the Strand, on the spot once occupied by the palace of Peter of Savoy, uncle of Eleanor of Provence. | |||
Engl. | London | St. John of Jerusalem | Hospital | Hospital | St. John of Jerusalem | About 1140 | Jordan de Briset and his wife | A hospital and priory of St. John of Jerusalem and the nunnery of St. Mary. | |||
Engl. | London | St. Helens, Bishopgate | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Helen | 1210 | William Son of William the Goldsmith, Patron of the Church of St. Helen | |||
Engl. | London | Whittingtons College and Hospital | College | Holy GhoSt. and St. Mary | Church | St. Michael | 1424 | John Coventre, John Carpenter, and William Grove. | Founded by the Executors of Richard Whitington late Citizen and Mercer, and several times Mayor of London, by erecting a College, pursuant to the Will of the said Richard in the Parish Church of St. Michael call'd Pater noster Chirche in the Riol, in London, for five or six Chaplains and other Clerks and Ministers, and an Almes-House of thirteen poor People. | ||
Engl. | London | St. Pauls | Cathedral | Saxon | Church | St. Paul | 604 | King Ethelbert, king of Kent | Said to be founded originally in 185 by Lucius, King of the greater Britain (now England). | ||
Engl. | London | Walworth's | Crooked Lane | College | Church | St. Michael | Before 1381 | William de Walworth Citizen and Merchant of London | |||
Engl. | Middx. | Kilburn | Austin | Canonesses | Priory | St. John the Baptist | Cell: of Westminster | About 1130 | Herbert, Abbot of Westminster, Osbert de Clara, Prior, and the Convent of Westminster | The Abbey of Westminster provided a Hermitage at Kilburn to three Maids Emma, Gunilda, and Christina, for a Nunnery. | |
Engl. | Middx. | Clerkenwell | Austin | Canonesses | Priory | St. Mary | About 1145 | Jordan de Briset | Founded shortly before the foundation of the house of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, between the road to St. Albans and the Fleet river, and by the same founder. | ||
Engl. | Middx. | Haliwell | Holywell, in Shoreditch | Austin | Canonesses | Priory | St. John the Baptist | Before 1150 | Robert Fitz Generan (or Gelran) | Robert was the second known holder of the prebend of Holywell or Finsbury in St. Paul's Cathedral. | |
Engl. | Middx. | Syon | Bridget | Nuns | Priory | St. Saviour and St. Bridget of Syon | 1415 | King Henry the V. | In the manor of Isleworth within the parish of Twickenham, for sixty Nuns. | ||
Engl. | Middx. | St. James, Westminster | Hospital | Hospital | St. James | Before 1133 | King Henry the III. | Founded for Leperous Women of St. James without London, located west of Charing, in the parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster. | |||
Engl. | Middx. | St. Stephens, Westminster | College | Chapel | St. Stephen | After 1248 | Henry III. | Work, in the Palace of Westminster, continued for many years under Henry's successors, to be completed around 1297. | |||
Engl. | Norf. | Dereham | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | Unknown | Before 743 | Withburga Daughter of Anna King of the East Angles | |||
Engl. | Norf. | Wymondham | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin | Cell: dependent on St. Albans | 1139 | William de Albini, chief Butler to King Henry the I. | ||
Engl. | Norf. | Binham | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary the Virgin | Cell: dependent on St. Albans | 1104 | Peter de Valoines and Albreda his Wife | ||
Engl. | Norf. | St. Leonard, Norwich | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Leonard | 1096 | Bishop Herbert Losenge | Bishop Herbert Losenge had been Prior of Fischamp in Normandy, then Abbot of Ramsey, and then Bishop of the East-Angles, in the Reign of King William Rufus. He built St. Leonard's whilst the cathedral church and priory were in course of erection. | ||
Engl. | Norf. | Horsham | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Faith | Alien house: dependent on Conches | 1105 | Robert Fitz Walter and Sibill his Wife, daughter and heiress of Ralph de Cheney | ||
Engl. | Norf. | Carrow | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary of Carhowe | 1146 | King Stephen | Founded originally at Norwich 1100-1135, and transferred here 1146. | ||
Engl. | Norf. | Blackburgh | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary, and St. Catherine | About 1150 | Roger de Scales and his wife Muriel | Was founded as a small priory for monks, but by 1200 was converted to the sole use of Benedictine nuns. | ||
Engl. | Norf. | Weybourne | Waburn | Austin | Canons | Priory | Blessed Virgin and All Saints | Dependent: on West Acre | 1199 | Sir Ralph Mainwaring | |
Engl. | Norf. | Welle | Well Hall, in Gayton | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Nicholas | Alien house: dependent on St-Etienne, Caen | About 1081 | William de Streis | |
Engl. | Norf. | Toft | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Margaret | Alien house: dependent on St-Pierre, Preaux | 1087-1100 | Robert de Bellomonte, earl of Meulan in Normandy, and of Leicester in England | ||
Engl. | Norf. | West-Acre | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary and All Saints | Before 1100 | Ralph de Toni | Under Oliver the parish prieSt. and his son Walter. | ||
Engl. | Norf. | Castle-Acre | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Alien house: dependent on Lewes, Sussex | 1089 | William de Warrene, 2nd Earl of Surrey | ||
Engl. | Norf. | Bromholm | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | St. Andrew | Alien house: dependent on Castle Acre | 1113 | William de Glanvill | ||
Engl. | Norf. | Normansburgh | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | Blessed Virgin and St. John the Evangelist | Alien house: cell dependent on Castle Acre | About 1160 | William de Liseurs | Founded originally for Austin Canons, but soon after its foundation about 1200, Godfrey de Liseurs, the founder's son, transferred it to the Cluniac priory of Castle Acre, of which it became a Cell. | |
Engl. | Norf. | Sleves Holm | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | Blessed Virgin and St. Giles | Alien house: dependent on Castle Acre | William de Warenne, 3rd earl of Surrey | |||
Engl. | Norf. | Thetford | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Alien house: dependent on Lewes, Sussex | 1103 | Roger Bigod | Founded initially on the Suffolk side of the river, but translated to a new site in 1114 on the Norfolk side. | |
Engl. | Norf. | Pentney | Austin | Canons | Priory | Holy Trinity, the Blessed Virgin, and St. Mary Magdalen | About 1130 | Robert de Vaux | |||
Engl. | Norf. | Walsingham | Austin | Canons | Priory | Our Lady of Walsingham | 1153 | Geoffrey de Favarches | Founded originally in the time of Edward the Confessor but the earlieSt. deeds in the chartulary of Walsingham Priory name Richeldis, the mother of Geoffrey de Favraches, who rebuilt the chapel. | ||
Engl. | Norf. | Coxford | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | About 1140 | William Cheney | Founded near Rudham, and translated to a new site in 1216. | ||
Engl. | Norf. | Old Buckenham | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary, St. James, and All Saints | About 1146 | William de Albini, 2nd earl of Arundel, and Queen Adeliza his wife | |||
Engl. | Norf. | Hickling | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary, St. Austin, and All Saints | 1185 | Theobald de Valentia, son of Robert de Valoines | |||
Engl. | Norf. | Creake | St. Mary de Pratis | Austin | Canons | Abbey | Blessed Virgin | 1206 | Alice, widow of Sir Robert de Nerford, governor of Dover Castle under Hubert de Burgo then Chief Justice of England | Originally a Chapel to the honour of St. Bartholomew with a Hospital for thirteen poor men. Also known as St. Mary de Pratis by Creake. | |
Engl. | Norf. | St. John Baptist, Lynn | Hospital | Hospital | St. John Baptist | 1100-1135 | Ulfkatel, son of the Nun of Sceringes | ||||
Engl. | Norf. | Thetford | Holy Sepulchre | Austin | Canons | Priory | Holy Sepulchre | After 1139 | William de Warenne, 3rd earl of Warenne and Surrey | Founded originally on the Suffolk side of the river, for canons of the order of St. Sepulchre. | |
Engl. | Norf. | Wendling | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | St. Mary | About 1265 | William de Wendling, one of the king's justices | |||
Engl. | Norf. | West Dereham | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1188 | Hubert Walter, dean of York | Hubert Walter, dean of York, afterwards became successively bishop of Salisbury and archbishop of Canterbury, but born in West Dereham. | ||
Engl. | Norf. | Langley | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | Blessed Virgin | 1195 | Sir Robert Fitz-Roger Helke | Sir Robert Fitz-Roger Helke, was lord of Langley by marriage with Margaret, daughter and co-heir of William de Cheney, and relict of Sir Hugh de Cressi. | ||
Engl. | Norf. | Shouldham | Gilbert | Nuns | Priory | Holy Cross and the Blessed Virgin | After 1193 | Geoffrey Fitz-Piers, earl of Essex | |||
Engl. | Norf. | Ingham | Trinitar | Canons | Priory | Holy Trinity and All Saints | 1360 | William Staferton | |||
Engl. | Norf. | Marham | Cisterc | Nuns | Abbey | Blessed Virgin, St. Barbara, and St. Edmund | 1249 | Isabel, widow of Hugh de Albini, earl of Arundel, and Daughter of William Earl of Warrene | |||
Engl. | Norf. | Norwich | Cathedral | Benedict | Monks | Priory | Holy Trinity | 1101 | Bishop Herbert de Losinga | ||
Engl. | Norf. | Rushworth | College | Church | St. John the Evangelist | 1341 | Sir Edmund de Gonvile, founder of Gonvile Hall, Cambridge | ||||
Engl. | Norf. | Attleborough | College | Church | 1405 | Sir Robert de Mortimer | After his death in 1397. | ||||
Engl. | Northan. | Peterborough | Medeshamstede | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Peter, St. Paul and St. Andrew, | About 655 | Peada the first Christian King of Mercia | Erected by Saxulf, a monk of noble birth. Cathedral Priory. | |
Engl. | Northan. | Peakirk | Benedict | Monks | Priory | 714 | St. Pega | Founded originally as a Hermitage, it was later converted to a monastery by Edmund Atheling in about 1100. | |||
Engl. | Northan. | Wothorpe | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | Blessed Mary | About 1160 | Annexed to the Nunnery of St. Michaels by Stanford after the Black Death of 1349. | |||
Engl. | Northan. | Sewardsley | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary Magdelen | Dependent: on the Cluniacs at Delapré | 1154-1159 | Richard de Lestre, lord of the manor | In the parish of Easton Neston. | |
Engl. | Northan. | Luffield | Benedict | Monks | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary | After 1118 | Robert Bossu II., earl of Leicester | Annexed later to Westminster. | ||
Engl. | Northan. | Weeden-Pinkney | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary, Blessed Virgin | Cell: dependent on St. Lucien, Beauvais | Before 1126 | Ghilo de Pinkney | Expanded by Roger de Thebovill who gave a moiety of the manor of Weedon to the abbey of Bec, in the reign of Henry II. However, before the end of this reign, the whole of Weedon was acquired by the abbot and monks of Bec-Hellouin. | |
Engl. | Northan. | Weeden-Beck | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary. | Alien house: dependent on Bec-Hellouin and St. Lambert de Mallassis | Before 1086 | Roger de Thebovill | ||
Engl. | Northan. | St. Andrews, Northampton | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | St. Andrew | Alien house: dependent on La Charité sur Loire | 1093-1100 | Simon de St. Liz, earl of Northampton | ||
Engl. | Northan. | Daventry | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | St. Augustine | Alien house: dependent on La Charité sur Loire | About 1090 | Hugh de Leicester, sheriff of Northamptonshire | Founded originally for four Cluniac monks in the church of Preston Capes, but, by License of Simon de Seynliz the elder, Earl of Northampton, they were removed to Daventry. | |
Engl. | Northan. | Pipewell | Cisterc | Monks | Priory | Blessed Virgin | Daughter: of Newminster | 1143 | William Batevileyn of Cottesbrook | ||
Engl. | Northan. | St. Mary de Pratis, Northampton | Delapré | Cluniac | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | About 1145 | Simon de St. Liz the younger, Earl of Northampton | ||
Engl. | Northan. | St. James, Northampton | Austin | Canons | Abbey | St. James | 1145-1150 | William Peverell II. | |||
Engl. | Northan. | Chacombe | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Peter and St. Paul | 1216-1272 | Hugo de Chacombe | |||
Engl. | Northan. | Canons Ashby | Austin | Canons | Priory | Blessed Virgin | 1147-1151 | Stephen de Leye | On a site to the south of the present church. | ||
Engl. | Northan. | Fineshade | Castle Hymel | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | Before 1208 | Richard Engayne the elder, Lord of Blatherwycke | A little distance to the north-east of the castle. | |
Engl. | Northan. | St. James and St. John, Brackley | Hospital | Hospital | St. James and St. John | About 1150 | Robert le Bossu, Earl of Leicester | Built by one Solomon, a clerk. | |||
Engl. | Northan. | Sulby | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | Daughter: of Newsham | About 1155 | William de Wideville | |||
Engl. | Northan. | Catesby | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary and St. Edmund | About 1175 | Robert de Easseby | |||
Engl. | Northan. | Cotterstock | College | Church | Holy Trinity, and Virgin Mary | 1340 | John Gifford, Clerk | ||||
Engl. | Northan. | Irthlingburgh | College | Church | St. Peter | 1375 | John Pyel | Executed by his wife Joan in 1388, who erected a College in the Parish Church of St. Peter of Irthlingburgh. | |||
Engl. | Northan. | Fotheringhay | College | Church | St. Mary and All Saints | 1411 | Edward of York, son of Edmund of Langley, duke of York | ||||
Engl. | Northan. | Higham Ferrers | College | Church | St. Mary | 1422 | Henry Chicheley Archbishop of Canterbury | ||||
Engl. | Notts. | Wallingwells | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | 1140-1144 | Ralph de Chevrolcourt (or Caprecuria) | In the Park of Carlton in Lindrick by the Wells. | ||
Engl. | Notts. | Blyth | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Alien house: dependent on St. Holy Trinity, Rouen | 1088 | Roger de Builli and Muriel his Wife | ||
Engl. | Notts. | Lenton | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | Holy Trinity | 1102-1108 | William Peverel | |||
Engl. | Notts. | Rufford | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin | 1166 | Gilbert de Gaunt, Earl of Lincoln | |||
Engl. | Notts. | Beauvale | Carthus | Monks | Priory | Holy Trinity | 1343 | Nicholas de Cauntlow, lord of Ilkeston, Derbyshire | In the Park of Greasley. | ||
Engl. | Notts. | Worksop | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary, and St. Cuthbert | 1103 | William de Lovetot | |||
Engl. | Notts. | Felley | Austin | Canons | Priory | Blessed Mary, and St. Helen | Dependent: on Worksop | 1156 | Ralph Britto of Annesley and Reinold his Son | ||
Engl. | Notts. | Thurgarton | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Peter | After 1140 | Ralph Deincourt | |||
Engl. | Notts. | Newstead | De Novo Loco | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | About 1170 | Henry II. | In the Forest of Sherwood. | |
Engl. | Notts. | St. John Baptist, Nottingham | Hospital | Hospital | St. John Baptist | About 1170 | The Palmers | Founded outside the walls, on the north side of the town by the Palmers via a grant of land by Robert de St. Remy (for the benefit of the soul of his brother) and confirmed by Henry II. at some point in the 1160s or '70s, and in the 1180s given recognition by the Pope. The Palmers were professional pilgrims. | |||
Engl. | Notts. | Plumtrees, Nottingham | Hospital | Hospital | Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin | 1392 | John Plumtree | At the Bridge End, now Red Lion Square. | |||
Engl. | Notts. | Welbeck | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | St. James | 1153 | Thomas of Cuckney, son of Richard and Hawise, son of Joceus le Flemaugh | |||
Engl. | Notts. | Broadholme | Premonst | Canonesses | Priory | St. Mary | Daughter: of Newsham Abbey in Lincolnshire. | 1148-1154 | Agnes de Camville | Initially home to both canons and canonesses. | |
Engl. | Notts. | Shelford | Austin | Canons | Priory | Virgin Mary | About 1170 | Ralph Haunselyn or Hauselin | |||
Engl. | Notts. | St. Leonard, Newark | Hospital | Hospital | St. Leonard | Before 1135 | Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln | At Stoke outside the walls of Newark. | |||
Engl. | Notts. | Southwell | College | Church | St. Mary | 958-971 | Oskytel, Archbishop of York | ||||
Engl. | Notts. | Sibthorpe | College | Church | St. Peter | 1324 | Thomas de Sibthorpe, the good parson of Beckingham | ||||
Engl. | Notts. | Tuxford | College | Church | St. Nicholas | 1362 | John de Lungvillers | ||||
Engl. | Northum. | Tynemouth | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Dependent: on St. Albans, Hertfordshire | About 1083 | Robert de Mowbray, a Norman, Earl of Northumberland | Robert de Mowbray built the Church of St. Mary adjoining his Castle of Tynemouth. | |
Engl. | Northum. | Holystone | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | Before 1124 | Robert de Umfraville I. | |||
Engl. | Northum. | Lambley | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary and St. Patrick | Before 1190 | Probably Adam de Tindale and his wife Helwise | |||
Engl. | Northum. | Hexham | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Andrew | 1113 | Thomas, Archbishop of York | On the site of an earlier Saxon monastery and cathedral founded in 674 by St. Wilfred and St. Etheldreda. | ||
Engl. | Northum. | Brinkburn | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Peter and St. Paul | Before 1135 | William Bertram, Baron of Mitford, Hawys his Wife, and Roger his Son | |||
Engl. | Northum. | Bolton | Hospital | Hospital | St. Thomas the Martyr | Before 1225 | Robert de Ros, Baron of Wark | For three Brothers and Chaplains, and thirteen Leperous Men. | |||
Engl. | Northum. | Thorntons, Newcastle | Maison Dieu | Hospital | Hospital | St. Katherine | 1412 | Roger Thornton | For one Chaplain, nine poor men, and four Poor Women. | ||
Engl. | Northum. | Alnwick | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1147 | Eustace Fitz John | |||
Engl. | Northum. | Blanchland | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1165 | Walter de Bolbec II. | |||
Engl. | Northum. | Newminster | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Robert | Daughter: of Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. | 1138 | Ranulf de Merlay, lord of Morpeth, and his wife, Juliana, daughter of Gospatric II., Earl of Lothian | ||
Engl. | Oxon. | St. Frideswide, Oxford | Austin | Canonesses | Priory | St. Mary, and All Saints | About 727 | Didanus a petty King of Oxford | Didanus built a church for his daughter Frideswide or Frithuswith, but it was destroyed during the Danish massacre in 1002, and replaced later by an Augustin Priory. | ||
Engl. | Oxon. | St. Frideswide, Oxford | Cathedral | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Frideswide | 1122 | Gwymund, chaplain to Henry I. of England. | ||
Engl. | Oxon. | Eynesham | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | 1005 | AEthelmar, the Ealderman | |||
Engl. | Oxon. | Studley | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | About 1175 | Bernard of St. Walery, and Thomas of St. Walery, his Son | |||
Engl. | Oxon. | Godstow | Benedict | Nuns | Abbey | Virgin Mary and St. John Baptist | 1133 | Ediva (Editha), widow of Sir William Launcelene | Ediva was the first Prioress. | ||
Engl. | Oxon. | Gloucester College, Oxford | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. John the Evangelist. and St. Benedict | Cell: dependent on Gloucester, Gloucestershire | 1283 | John Giffard Lord of Brimpsfield | For the maintenance of thirteen Benectine Monks of the Abbey of Gloucester. | |
Engl. | Oxon. | Cogges | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Alien house: dependent on Fécamp | 1103 | Manasses Arsic | ||
Engl. | Oxon. | Thame | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | 1138 | Sir Robert Gait, or Gai, or Geyt, or le Gai | Founded temporarily at Otteley in the parish of Oddington, with Cistercian Monks from Waverley, and transferred to Thame about 1140 on land given by Alexander, bishop of Lincoln. | ||
Engl. | Oxon. | Bruern | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | 1147 | Nicholas Basset | Cistercian monks from Waverley, Surrey. | ||
Engl. | Oxon. | Rewley | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | Dependent: on Thame | 1281 | Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, son of Richard, King of the Romans | ||
Engl. | Oxon. | Oseney | Austin | Canons | Abbey | St. Mary | 1129 | Robert d'Oilly the younger, and his wife Edith Forne | On the Isles made by the River Isis near Oxford. | ||
Engl. | Oxon. | Dorchester | Austin | Canons | Abbey | St. Peter, St. Paul and St. Birinus | About 1140 | Bishop Alexander of Lincoln | |||
Engl. | Oxon. | Cold Norton | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. John the Evangelist | 1148-1154 | Avelina domina de Norton, daughter of Ernulf de Hesding, lord of the manor of Norton in 1086 | |||
Engl. | Oxon. | Bicester | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Edburga | 1182-1185 | Gilbert Basset, Baron of Hedington | |||
Engl. | Oxon. | Wroxton | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | About 1217 | Magister Michael Belet, son of Michael Belet, butler to Henry II. | |||
Engl. | Oxon. | St. Bartholomew, Oxford | Hospital | Hospital | St. Bartholomew | Before 1129 | King Henry I. | For twelve sick persons and a chaplain. | |||
Engl. | Oxon. | St. John's, Oxford | Hospital | Hospital | St. John the Baptist | 1231 | King Henry the III. | Not far from the East gate, in Oxford. | |||
Engl. | Oxon. | Ewelme | Hospital | Hospital | 1437 | William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, and Alice his Wife | An Alms House for two Chaplains and thirteen poor men. | ||||
Engl. | Oxon. | Bicester | Hospital | Hospital | Virgin Mary and St. John Baptist | 1355 | Nicholas Jurdan, Hermit, Custos of the Chapel of St. John Baptist of Bicester | ||||
Engl. | Oxon. | Minster Lovell | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | Unknown | Alein house: dependent on the abbey of Ivry in Normandy. | 1200-1206 | Maud, widow of William Luvell | ||
Engl. | Rutland | Brooke | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | Cell: dependent on Kenilworth | Before 1153 | Hugh de Ferrars, then lord of the manor of Oakham | ||
Engl. | Rutland | St. John Evangelist. and St. Anne, Okeham | Hospital | Hospital | St. John Evangelist. and St. Anne | 1398 | William Dalby, merchant of Exton | For two Chaplains, and thirteen poor Men. | |||
Engl. | Salop | Shrewsbury | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Peter and St. Paul | 1083 | Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Arundel | |||
Engl. | Salop | Bromfield | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary, Virgin | Cell: dependent on Gloucester | 1155 | Henry II. | Founded effectively when the canons of Bromfield gave their church and themselves as monks to the church of St. Peter of Gloucester, by the hand of Gilbert, Bishop of Hereford, and with the approval of Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury and papal legate. | |
Engl. | Salop | Chirbury | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Michael | About 1190 | Robert de Boullers, lord of Montgomery | Founded at Snead, on the upper reaches of the Camlad. | ||
Engl. | Salop | Alberbury | Grandm | Monks | Priory | Alien house: dependent on Grandmont | About 1230 | Fulk fitz Warin of Whittington | Founded originally 1221-1226 for Augustinian Canons Regular (Arroasian) dependent on Lilleshall. | ||
Engl. | Salop | Wenlock | Saxon | Nuns | Abbey | St. Milburga | 680 | Merwald, King of West Mercia | Milburga, Niece of Wilphere, King of Mercia, lived, and died Abbess. It was re-founded in 1079–82, as a Monastery for the Monks of Clugny by Roger, Earl of Mongomery. | ||
Engl. | Salop | Wenlock | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | St. Michael and St. Milburga | Alien house: dependent on La Charité | About 1050 | Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury | Re-founded as a Cluniac monastery. | |
Engl. | Salop | Buildwas | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary and St. Chad | Dependent: on Savigny | 1135 | Roger de Clinton, Bishop of Chester | Originally Savigniac, but the Order of Savigny merged with the Cistercians in 1147. | |
Engl. | Salop | Haughmond | Austin | Canons | Abbey | St. John the Evangelist | About 1110 | William Fitz Allen of Clun | |||
Engl. | Salop | Lilleshall | Austin | Canons | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1145-1148 | Philip and Richard of Belmeis, both nephews of Richard I. of Belmeis | Created by an Arroasian community from St. Peter's, Dorchester, Oxfordshire, via Lizard Grange, Staffordshire, in about 1143, and transferred from Donnington Wood, near Wrockwardine, about 1148. | ||
Engl. | Salop | Wombridge | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Leonard | Before 1136 | William of Hadley, a vassal of William FitzAlan, and his wife Seburga, a natural daughter of Hamo Peverel. | |||
Engl. | Salop | Ratlinghope | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Giles | Cell: dependent on Wigmore | 1199-1209 | Walter Corbet, an Augustinian canon | ||
Engl. | Salop | St. Giles, Shrewsbury | Hospital | Hospital | St. Giles | 1136 | Leper hospital. | ||||
Engl. | Salop | St. John Baptist, Bridgnorth | Hospital | Hospital | Holy Trinity, and St. John Baptist | 1179-1195 | Ralph Lestrange | To the north of St. John's Street, set back from the road and adjoining Morfe Forest on the east. | |||
Engl. | Salop | St. John Baptist, Ludlow | Hospital | Hospital | Holy Trinity, Virgin Mary, and St. John Baptist | 1220-1229 | Peter Undergod, Ludlow burgess | At the northern end of the Teme Bridge. | |||
Engl. | Salop | Tong | College | Church | St. Bartholomew | 1410 | Isabel Pembridge, Widow of Fulk de Pembridge, Chivaler | Isabel purchased the Advowson of the Church of St. Bartholomew at Tong from the Abbot and Convent of the Abbey of Salop. | |||
Engl. | Salop | Battlefield | College | Church | St. Mary Magdalen | 1410 | Roger Yve Rector of the Chapel of St. John Baptist. at Albright Hussey | ||||
Engl. | Salop | Newport | College | Church | St. Mary | 1442 | Thomas Draper | ||||
Engl. | Somers. | Glastonbury | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | About 960 | Archbishop Dunstan | Founded possibly as a Saxon monastery in the 6th century, and had many incarnations before Archbishop Dunstan re-founded Glastonbury for Benedictine monks. | ||
Engl. | Somers. | Bath | Cathedral | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Peter and St. Paul | About 963 | King Edgar | Founded as a nunnery by King Osric in 676, but re-founded for Benedictine monks in about 963. | |
Engl. | Somers. | Wells | Cathedral | Benedict | Church | St. Andrew the Apostle | 909 | King Edward the Elder | In 909 the large diocese of Sherborne was split and the minster church of St Andrew became the cathedral of the new diocese of Wells, which included all the county of Somerset. | ||
Engl. | Somers. | Athelney | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Peter, St. Paul and St. Athelwine | 878 | King Alfred | King Alfred built a Church and Monastery on Athelney upon his restoration in 878. | ||
Engl. | Somers. | Dunster | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. George | 1090 | William de Mohun and Adeliza his wife | |||
Engl. | Somers. | St. James, Bristol | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. James | Cell: of Tewkesbury | 1129 | Robert Fitzroy, Earl of Gloucester, son of Henry I., and illegitimate grandson of William the Conqueror | ||
Engl. | Somers. | St. Augustine, Bristol | Cathedral | Austin | Canons | Abbey | St. Augustine | 1148 | Robert Fitz Harding | Robert Fitz Harding was a Burgess of Bristol, to whom King Henry II. gave the Barony of Berkeley. | |
Engl. | Somers. | Keynsham | Austin | Canons | Abbey | Blessed Mary, and the Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul | About 1170 | William, Earl of Gloucester | |||
Engl. | Somers. | Cleeve | Cliff | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Lady of the Cliff | 1186-1191 | William de Roumara, third Earl of Lincoln, and Lucy Countess of Lincoln | ||
Engl. | Somers. | Montacute | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | St. Peter and St. Paul | 1078 and 1102 | Count Robert of Mortain in Normandy | |||
Engl. | Somers. | Witham | Carthus | Monks | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1175 | King Henry the II. | Part of Henry's penance for the murder of Archbishop Becket. | ||
Engl. | Somers. | Taunton | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Peter and St. Paul | About 1115 | William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester | On a piece of Ground on the North-side of the Town of Taunton, without the East-Gate. | ||
Engl. | Somers. | Haselbury | Austin | Canons | Priory | Unknown | 1068-1135 | William Fitz-Walter | Unlikely to have been initiated. | ||
Engl. | Somers. | Bruton | Austin | Canons | Abbey | St. Mary the Virgin | 1127 | William de Mohun, Earl of Somerset | Founded originally about 1005 by Algar, Earl of Cornwall, but dissolved before 1086, and re-founded in 1127 by William de Mohun, who placed Augustinian Canons here after the Conquest. | ||
Engl. | Somers. | Barlynch | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Nicholas | 1154-1189 | William de Say | |||
Engl. | Somers. | Woodspring | Worspring | Austin | Canons | Priory | Holy Trinity, St. Mary, and St. Thomas the Martyr | About 1210 | William de Courteney | William de Courteney, was a grandson of Reginald Fitz Urse of Williton, one of the knights who murdered Archbishop Becket. | |
Engl. | Somers. | Stavordale | Austin | Canons | Priory | Unknown | Before 1243 | A member of the Lovel family | Merged with Taunton 1533. | ||
Engl. | Somers. | St. John Baptist, Bridgwater | Hospital | Hospital | St. John Baptist | Before 1213 | William Briwere | For thirteen poor People, beside Religious men, and Travailers. | |||
Engl. | Somers. | St. Laurence, Bristol | Hospital | Hospital | St. Laurence | Before 1208 | King John, when Earl of Mortain | A Hospital of Lepers in the Suburbs of Bristol. | |||
Engl. | Somers. | Buckland | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. John Baptist | About 1166 | William de Arlegh (Erlegh), Lord of Durston | Later used as a Hospital-house of Jerusalem, for the Sustentation of the Sisters of Buckland. | ||
Engl. | Somers. | North Cadbury | College | Church | St. Michael | 1423 | Elizabeth Widow of William Botreaux the elder, Chivalier | A College for seven Chaplains. | |||
Engl. | Somers. | Stoke Curcy | Stogursey | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Andrew | Alien house: dependent on Lonlay, Normandy | Before 1160 | William de Falaise | |
Engl. | Somers. | Hinton | Locus Dei | Carthus | Monks | Priory | Blessed Mary, St. John Baptist, and all Saints | 1227 | Ela Countess of Salisbury, Widow of William Longespee Earl of Salisbury | First established at Hatherop, Gloucestershire in 1222 by William Longspee, Earl of Salisbury, and translated by Ela his widow to her park of Hinton in 1227. | |
Engl. | Staffs. | Burton | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary, Virgin and St. Modwen, Virgin | 1002 | Wulfric Spot, a thegn in the Court of King Ethelred | |||
Engl. | Staffs. | Tutbury | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary Virgin | Alien house: dependent on S-Pierre-sur-Dives | 1080 | Henry de Ferrers | Henry de Ferrers built the Church and Monastery at his Castle of Tutbury. | |
Engl. | Staffs. | Canwell | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary, and St. Giles, and All Saints | About 1142 | Geva, illegitimate daughter of Hugh I., Earl of Chester, and widow of Geoffrey Ridel, a justice under Henry I. | |||
Engl. | Staffs. | Farewell | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | About 1140 | Roger de Clinton, Bishop of Chester. | This house, like that at Blithbury founded at the same period, was at first for hermits or monks and was afterwards transformed into a nunnery. | ||
Engl. | Staffs. | Blithbury | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Giles | Cell: dependent on Burton | After 1129 | Hugh de Ridware or Malveysin | This house, like that at Farewell founded at the same period, was at first for hermits or monks and was afterwards transformed into a nunnery. | |
Engl. | Staffs. | Sandwell | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary Magdalene | About 1180 | William, son of Guy de Offeni, a principal tenant of Gervase Paynel, lord of Dudley | |||
Engl. | Staffs. | Dudley | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | St. James | Alien house: dependent on Wenlock Priory, Shropshire | 1161 | Ralph Painell, lord of the manor | ||
Engl. | Staffs. | Croxden | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | 1176 | Bertram de Verdun, lord of Alton, a baron of the Exchequer and a royal justice | Established originally at Cotton near Alton, and removed from there to Croxden in 1179. | ||
Engl. | Staffs. | Hulton | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | Daughter: of Combermere, Cheshire | 1219 | Henry de Audley | ||
Engl. | Staffs. | Wolverhampton | College | Church | St. Peter | 994 | Lady Wulfran | Possibly founded originally in 659 by Wulfhere, King of Mercia. | |||
Engl. | Staffs. | Lapley | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Peter | Alien house: dependent on St-Remi, Riems | After 1061 | Earl Alfgar | In memory of Alfgar's son, Burchard, who was buried in the Benedictine abbey of St. Remy at Rheims. | |
Engl. | Staffs. | Stone | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary and St. Wulfad | About 1135 | Enisan de Waleron | Founded originally about 670 by King Wulfhere, and destroyed by Danes, but, after a period, starting before 1066, as a Benedictine monastery, was re-founded for Augustine canons. | ||
Engl. | Staffs. | Ranton | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | Cell: dependent on Haughmond, Shropshire | 1135-1166 | Robert fitz Noel of Ellenhall | ||
Engl. | Staffs. | Trentham | Austin | Canons | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary and All Saints | Before 1153 | Ranulph de Gernon, Earl of Chester | |||
Engl. | Staffs. | Rocester | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | 1141-1146 | Richard Bacon, a nephew of Ranulph, Earl of Chester | |||
Engl. | Staffs. | St. Thomas, Stafford | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Thomas Becket | Daughter: of Darley Abbey, Derbyshire | About 1174 | Gerard fitz Brian | Completed by Bishop Richard Peche. | |
Engl. | Staffs. | St. Mary, Wolverhampton | Hospital | Hospital | St. Mary | 1392-1395 | Clement Leveson, chaplain, and William Waterfall | ||||
Engl. | Staffs. | Lichfield | Cathedral | Secular | Church | St. Mary | About 667 | St. Wilfrid | |||
Engl. | Staffs. | St. Mary, Stafford | College | Church | St. Mary | Before 1086 | Henry I. | ||||
Engl. | Suffolk | St. Benet, Hulme | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Benedict | Before 1000 | Wulfric | Confirmed by Cnut, the Danish King of England. | ||
Engl. | Suffolk | Bury St. Edmunds | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Edmund | 1020 | AEfwine, bishop of Elmham | Confirmed by Cnut, the Danish King of England. | ||
Engl. | Suffolk | Eye | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Peter | Alien house: dependent on Bernay | About 1080 | Robert Malet | ||
Engl. | Suffolk | Sudbury | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Bartholomew | Cell: dependent on Westminster, Middlesex | About 1115 | Wolfricus or Wulfric, Moneyer to Henry II. | ||
Engl. | Suffolk | Redlingfield | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Andrew | 1120 | Manasses count of Guisnes and Emma his wife | Emma was the daughter and heiress of William de Arras, lord of Redlingfield. | ||
Engl. | Suffolk | Edwardstone | Benedict | Monks | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary | Cell: dependent on Abingdon, Berkshire (Oxfordshire) | 1114 | Hubert de Monchesney, Lord of the Town of Edwardstone | ||
Engl. | Suffolk | Campsey | Austin | Nuns | Priory | Glorious Virgin Mary | About 1195 | Theobald de Valoines | Theobald de Valoines gave all his estate in this parish to his two sisters Joan, subsequently the first prioress, and Agnes, to build a monastery. | ||
Engl. | Suffolk | Bungay | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary and the Holy Cross | 1183 | Roger de Glanvill and Gundreda the Countess, his Wife | |||
Engl. | Suffolk | Kersey | Austin | Canons | St. Mary, and St. Anthony | Before 1219 | Probably Thomas de Burgh and his wife Nesta | ||||
Engl. | Suffolk | Stoke by Clare | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. John Baptist | Alien house: dependent on Bec-Hellouin | 1090 | Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester | Founded at Clare before 1090, and transferred here in 1124 from Clare, when Gilbert's son Richard removed the foundation to Stoke, where it eventually reverted to a collegiate establishment. | |
Engl. | Suffolk | Blakenham | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Alien house: dependent on Bec-Hellouin | Before 1092 | Walter Giffard, Earl of Buckingham | ||
Engl. | Suffolk | Rumburgh | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Michael | Cell: dependent on St Mary's, York | 1064-1070 | Ethelmar, bishop of Elmham, and Thurstan, abbot of St. Benet at Holme | In the reign of Henry I., either Stephen, the second earl of Richmond and Bretagne, or his son Alan, the third earl, gave this priory as a cell to the Abbey of St. Mary, York. | |
Engl. | Suffolk | Great Bricett | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary, and the holy Confessor St. Leonard | Alien house: dependent on St-Léonard-de-Noblat, near Limoges, France | About 1110 | Ralph Fitz-Brian and Emma his wife | ||
Engl. | Suffolk | Ixworth | Austin | Canons | Priory | Blessed Mary | About 1100 | Gilbert Blundus or Blunt | |||
Engl. | Suffolk | Butley | Austin | Canons | Priory | Our lady | 1171 | Sir Ralph de Glanville, justiciary of England | |||
Engl. | Suffolk | Holy Trinity, Ipswich | Austin | Canons | Priory | Holy Trinity | About 1133 | Norman Gastrode fitz Eadnoth | |||
Engl. | Suffolk | Blythburgh | Austin | Monks | Canons | Blessed Virgin Mary | Dependent: on St. Osyth, Essex | Before 1135 | Abbot and canons of the Austin house of St. Osyth, Essex | ||
Engl. | Suffolk | Leiston | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | Blessed Virgin | 1182 | Ranulph de Glanville, Lord Chief Justice to Henry II. | The Premonstratensian Canons came from Welbeck, Nottinghamshire. | ||
Engl. | Suffolk | Sudbury | College | Church | St. Gregory | 1375 | Simon of Sudbury, Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury, and John his brother | ||||
Engl. | Suffolk | Bruisyard | College | Church | Glorious Virgin Mary | 1346 | Maud countess of Ulster | Founded as a perpetual chantry of four chaplains and a warden in the chapel of the Annunciation, within the conventual church of Campsey, and removed eight years later from the nunnery to the manor place of Rokehall, in Bruisyard parish. It was surrendered in 1366, for the use of an abbess and sisters belonging to the order of Nuns Minoresses or Sisters of St. Clare. | |||
Engl. | Suffolk | Snape | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Cell: dependent on Colchester, Essex | 1155 | William Martel, his wife and son | ||
Engl. | Suffolk | Mendham | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Alien house: dependent on Castle Acre, Norfolk | Before 1155 | William Son of Roger de Huntingfield | ||
Engl. | Suffolk | Sibton | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin | 1150 | William Cheney, sometimes called William Fitz Robert | Colonized by an abbot and twelve monks from the abbey of Warden in Bedfordshire. | ||
Engl. | Suffolk | Coddenham | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary, and St. John | Before 1184 | Eustace de Merch | Eustace de Merch intended originally intended to found a house of Cistercian nuns from Nun Appleton. | ||
Engl. | Suffolk | Coddenham | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary, and St. John | Dependent: on Royston, Hertfordshire | Before 1184 | Eustace de Merch | ||
Engl. | Sussex | Selsey | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | About 681 | St. Wilfred | |||
Engl. | Sussex | Battle | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | Holy Trinity, St. Mary and St. Martin | 1067 | King William the Conqueror | King William the Conqueror built this Abby in 1067, in the same place where he fought and overcame King Harold and his Army. | ||
Engl. | Sussex | Sele | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Peter | Alien house: dependent on St-Florent-de-Saumur | Before 1073 | William de Braose | Granted to St-Florent-de-Saumur in Anjou, in 1080, by William de Braose. | |
Engl. | Sussex | Boxgrove | Benedict | Monks | Priory | Blessed Virgin, and St. Blaise | Alien house: dependent on the Abbey of Lessay | About 1117 | Robert de Haye | ||
Engl. | Sussex | Lyminster | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | Alien house: cell dependent on the Abbey of St. Peter, Almeneches | About 1082 | Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Sussex | Roger de Montgomery's daughter was abbess of the Abbey of St. Peter, Almeneches. | |
Engl. | Sussex | Lewes | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | St. Pancras | Alien house: dependent on the Abbey of Cluny in Burgundy | 1066-1076 | William de Warrenne, Earl of Surrey, and Gundreda | ||
Engl. | Sussex | Robertsbridge | Cisterc | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Daughter: of Boxley, Kent | 1176 | Alvred de St. Martin, sheriff of the rape of Hastings and dapifer to Richard I., who married Alice widow of John count of Eu | The community was founded at Salehurst in 1176, and transferred to Robertsbridge about 1250. | |
Engl. | Sussex | Hastings | Austin | Canons | Priory | Holy Trinity | 1189-1199 | Walter de Scotney | The structure was physically moved inland to Warbleton due to encroachment of the sea. | ||
Engl. | Sussex | Pynham | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Bartholomew | Before 1151 | Adeliza, queen of Henry I. and subsequently wife of William d'Albigny and countess of Arundel | |||
Engl. | Sussex | Hardham | Heringham | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Cross | After 1248 | Sir William Dawtrey | Enlarged by Sir William Pagnell during the reign of Edward III. | |
Engl. | Sussex | Michelham | Austin | Canons | Priory | Holy Trinity | 1229 | Gilbert de Aquila of Laigle, lord of the honour of Pevensey | |||
Engl. | Sussex | Bayham | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | Daughter: of Prémontré | About 1208 | Sir Robert de Turnham | Established on the union of Otham and Brockley Abbeys, the Canons were translated from Brockley, Kent between 1199 and 1208, and from Otham between 1208 and 1211. | |
Engl. | Sussex | Dureford | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | St. Mary and St. John the Baptist | Daughter: of Welbeck, Nottinghamshire | About 1160 | Henry Hussey II., Lord of Harting | ||
Engl. | Sussex | Holy Trinity, Arundel | Hospital | Hospital | Holy Trinity | About 1395 | Richard Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arundel | ||||
Engl. | Sussex | St. Nicholas, Arundel | College | Church | St. Nicholas | 1380 | Richard Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arundel | Founded in the Parish Church at Arundel, without the Walls of the Castle. | |||
Engl. | Sussex | Chichester | Cathedral | Secular | Church | Holy Trinity | 681 | Bishop Wilfrid | The first cathedral in Sussex was at Church Norton near Selsey, built by St. Wilfrid in 681, but in 1075, the See of Chichester was established and the bishopric was moved. | ||
Engl. | Surrey | Chertsey | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Peter | 666 | Erkenwald, afterwards Bishop of London | Erkenwald became the first abbot of Chertsey. | ||
Engl. | Surrey | Bermondsey | Cluniac | Monks | Abbey | St. Saviour | Alien house: dependent on La Charité | 1082 | Alwin Child, a Citizen of London | ||
Engl. | Surrey | Waverley | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Mary | Dependent: on L'Aumône | 1128 | William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester | ||
Engl. | Surrey | Sheen | Carthus | Monks | Priory | Jesus of Bethlehem | 1414 | King Henry V. | Near the Royal Seat at Sheen, Richmond. | ||
Engl. | Surrey | St. Mary Overie | Southwark | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | 1106 | William Pont d'Arch and William Dauncey, two Norman knights | William Gifford Bishop of Winchester lent much assistance, and in 1107 built the nave of the church and, hence, he was sometimes termed the founder. It later became Southwark Priory. | |
Engl. | Surrey | Merton | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | 1114 | Gilbert Norman, Sheriff of Surrey | |||
Engl. | Surrey | Newark | Austin | Canons | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Thomas the Martyr | About 1189 | Ruald de Calva and Beatrice de Sandes his wife | Near Guildford. | ||
Engl. | Surrey | Reigate | Austin | Canons | Priory | Blessed Virgin and the Holy Cross | 1235 | William de Warren, Earl of Surrey, and Isabel his wife | |||
Engl. | Surrey | Tandridge | Tanregge | Hospital | Hospital | St. James | 1189 | Odo, son of William de Dammartin | For the maintenance of Infirm and poor People, and Travellers, but in 1218 became a Priory for Augustinian canons. | ||
Engl. | Surrey | St. Thomas, Southwark | Hospital | Hospital | St. Thomas | 1173 | St. Thomas of Canterbury | Re-endowed by Peter des Roche, Bishop of Winchester, after its destruction by fire. | |||
Engl. | Surrey | Sandon | Hospital | Hospital | Holy Spirit | After 1133 | Robert de Wateville | ||||
Engl. | Warks. | Polesworth | Benedict | Nuns | Abbey | St. Editha | Before 839 | Egbert, King of the West Saxons | Egbert made his Daughter Edith the first Abbess. | ||
Engl. | Warks. | Coventry | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary, St. Peter and St. Osburg | 1043 | Leofric, Earl of Chester, and Godiva his Wife | |||
Engl. | Warks. | Alvecote | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Blase | Dependent: on Great Malvern | 1159 | William Burdet | ||
Engl. | Warks. | Wroxhall | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Leonard | About 1135 | Hugh, Lord of Wroxhall and Hatton | Founded by Hugh, Lord of Hatton and Wroxall in thanks for his release from seven years' imprisonment in Jerusalem during the Crusades. | ||
Engl. | Warks. | Pinley | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | Before 1135 | Robert de Pillarton | Also described as Benedictine nuns. | ||
Engl. | Warks. | Bretford | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | Unknown | Before 1154 | Geoffrey de Clinton | Dissolved before 1167. | ||
Engl. | Warks. | Alcester | St. Mary's of the Isle | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Anne, St. Joseph, St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist | 1140 | Ralph Pincerna le Boteler of Oversley | ||
Engl. | Warks. | Henwood | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Margaret | 1154-1159 | Ketelberne (Katelbern) de Langdon | During the reign of Henry II, under Walter Durdent, Bishop of Chester (Coventry). | ||
Engl. | Warks. | Nuneaton | Benedict | Monks and Nuns | Priory | St. Mary the Virgin | Alien house: dependent on Fontevrault, Anjou | About 1155 | Robert, Earl of Leicester and Gervase Paynel, his son-in-law | Founded originally at Kintbury in Berkshire. Gervase Paynel married the Earl's daughter Isabel, widow of Simon de Senliz, Earl of Northampton. | |
Engl. | Warks. | Wootton Wawen | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Peter in Chains | Alien house: dependent on the Abbey of St. Peter de Castellion, Conches, Normandy | After 1086 | Robert De Stafford (de Tonei) | ||
Engl. | Warks. | Monks Kirby | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Nicholas | Alien house: dependent on Angers | 1077 | Geoffrey de Wirche (Gosfred de Wirchia) | ||
Engl. | Warks. | Stoneleigh | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | Daughter: of Bordesley, Worcestershire | 1143-1147 | Maud the Empress | Founded originally at Radmore in Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, and shortly advanced to an Abbey of Cistercian Monks by Henry Fitz Empress, then Duke of Normandy. Finally in 1154, Henry Fitz Empress, being now King of England, exchanged their habitation of Radmore for Stoneleigh in Warwickshire. | |
Engl. | Warks. | Merevale | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | Daughter: of Bordesley, Worcestershire | 1148 | Robert, Earl Ferrers II., Earl of Derby | ||
Engl. | Warks. | Coombe | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | Daughter: of Waverley, Surrey | 1150 | Richard de Camvill | Richard de Camvill married the widow of Robert Marmion, founder of Polesworth Abbey. | |
Engl. | Warks. | Studley | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | About 1135 | Peter Corbezon | Founded originally at Witton, Worcestershire, and transferred about 1151, from Witton to Studley by Peter de Stodley. | ||
Engl. | Warks. | Kenilworth | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | About 1125 | Geoffrey de Clinton, Chamberlain and Treasurer to King Henry I. | |||
Engl. | Warks. | Arbury | Erdbury or Ordbury | Austin | Canons | Priory | Blessed Virgin | After 1154 | Ralph de Sudley | ||
Engl. | Warks. | Maxstoke | Austin | Canons | Priory | Holy Trinity, the Blessed Virgin, St. Michael, and all the Saints | 1336 | Sir William de Clinton, Earl of Huntington | |||
Engl. | Warks. | St. Sepulchre, Warwick | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Sepulchre | 1109 | Henry de Newburgh, Earl of Warwick | Completed by Henry's son, Earl Roger, in 1123. | ||
Engl. | Warks. | Thelsford | Trinitar | Monks | Priory | St. Radegund | About 1214 | Sir William Lucy, Son of Walter de Cherlecote | |||
Engl. | Warks. | Astley | College | Church | St. Mary | 1338 | Sir Thomas de Astley, Knt. | Founded originally as a Chantry in St. Mary's Chapel in the Church of Astley, in 1343 Sir Thomas changed this chantry into a collegiate church. | |||
Engl. | Warks. | St. Mary, Warwick | College | Church | St. Mary | 1123 | Henry de Newburgh, Earl of Warwick | Established in the Castle of Warwick. | |||
Engl. | Westm. | Heppe | Shap | Premonst | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary Magdalen | After 1192 | Thomas Son of Gospatric de Workington | ||
Engl. | Wilts. | Malmesbury | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Peter and St. Paul | 637 | Mailduib, an Irishman, Philosopher, and Hermit | |||
Engl. | Wilts. | Wilton | Benedict | Nuns | Abbey | St. Mary | 830 | Alburga, widow of Weohstan | Alburga, widow of Weohstan, persuaded her brother, King Egbert, to convert a chantry into a priory for 13 nuns. | ||
Engl. | Wilts. | Amesbury | Benedict | Nuns | Abbey | St. Mary and St. Melor | 979 | Alfrida, widow of King Edwin, | By way of expiation for the murder of King Edward the Younger, called St. Edward. Later, in about 1176/1177, was refounded for Fontevrault Benedictine nuns as an alien house dependent on Fontevrault priory. | ||
Engl. | Wilts. | Kington St. Michael | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | Before 1155 | Probably the family of Robert Wayfer of Brimpton. | |||
Engl. | Wilts. | Ogbourne St. Andrew | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Alien house: dependent on Bec-Hellouin | 1107-1133 | Brian Fitz-Count and Maud of Wallingford | A second charter of 1122-1147 refers to the grant of both Ogbourne St. George and Ogbourne St. Andrew. | |
Engl. | Wilts. | Monkton Farleigh | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | St. Mary Magdalen | Alien house: dependent on Lewes, Sussex | 1125 | Humphrey de Bohun the King's Sewer, and Margery his Wife | ||
Engl. | Wilts. | Stanley | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | 1151 | Maud the Empress and her chamberlain, Drogo | Founded originally at Loxwell, and, in 1154 translated to Stanley, by Maud's son King Henry II. | ||
Engl. | Wilts. | Bradenstoke | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | 1139 | Walter D'Evereaux, son of Edward of Salisbury, and father of Patrick, first Earl of Salisbury | |||
Engl. | Wilts. | St. Margaret, Marlborough | Gilbert | Canons | Priory | St. Margaret | Before 1189 | Possibly Henry II. | |||
Engl. | Wilts. | Ivychurch | Ederose (Monasterium Ederosum) | Austin | Canons | Priory | Blessed Mary | Before 1154 | King Stephen | ||
Engl. | Wilts. | St. John Baptist, Marlborough | Hospital | Hospital | St. John Baptist | Before 1215 | |||||
Engl. | Wilts. | St. John and St. Katherine, Heytesbury | Hospital | Hospital | St. John and St. Katherine | 1472 | Margaret, the widow of Robert, the 2nd Lord Hungerford | ||||
Engl. | Wilts. | Poulton | Gilbert | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | 1350 | Sir Thomas Seymour, Knt. | |||
Engl. | Wilts. | Lacock | Austin | Canonesses | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Bernard | 1232 | Ela, daughter and sole heiress of William, Earl of Salisbury, and wife of William Longespée, a natural son of Henry II. | |||
Engl. | Wilts. | Edington | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary, St. Catherine, and all Saints | 1351 | William Edington, the bishop of Winchester | A Chantry in the Bishop's home village of Edington. In 1358 the chantry became a house of the Brothers of Penitence or Bonhommes, an Augustinian order. | ||
Engl. | Wilts. | Maiden-Bradley | Hospital | Hospital | Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Lazarus | 1154 | Manasser Biset, steward of Henry II. | For leper women, a mile north of the village of Bradley in south-west Wiltshire. | |||
Engl. | Worcs. | Worcester | Cathedral | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | 680 | Archbishop Theodore of Canterbury | Worcester was first made a Bishops seat, after the establishment of the episcopal see of the Hwiccas, on the division of the diocese of Mercia, carried out by Archbishop Theodore of Canterbury, with the co-operation of the Mercian King Ethelred. | |
Engl. | Worcs. | Evesham | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary and St. Egwin | About 701 | St. Egwyn, third Bishop of Worcester | |||
Engl. | Worcs. | Pershore | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary and St. Eadburga | 972 | Egelward, Duke of Dorset | Founded originally about the year 689 by Oswald, a nephew of Ethelred, king of the Mercians. However, in 972, King Edgar replaced the seculars and nuns with Benedictines. | ||
Engl. | Worcs. | Great Malvern | Benedict | Monks | Priory | Virgin Mary | 1085 | Aldwyn, a monk and hermit, and his Brethren | The Priory was built for thirty monks on land belonging to Westminster Abbey. | ||
Engl. | Worcs. | Little Malvern | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Giles | 1171 | Two brothers, Jocelin and Edred | The two brothers, Jocelin, who became the first prior, and Edred, were born at Beckford. | ||
Engl. | Worcs. | Westwood | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | Alien house: cell dependent on Fontévrault | After 1154 | Osbert Fitz Hugh, and his mother, Eustachia de Say | ||
Engl. | Worcs. | Bordesley | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1136 | Waleran de Beaumont, Count of Meulan | Empress Matilda laid claim to being patron of Bordesley once de Beaumont surrendered to her in about 1141, thus making Bordesley a royal house. | ||
Engl. | Worcs. | Dodford | Austin | Canons | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1184 | King Henry I. | Established within the Royal Forest of Feckenham. | ||
Engl. | Worcs. | Halesowen | Premonst | Canons | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John the Evangelist | 1218 | Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester | The Premonstratensian Canons came from Welbeck, Nottinghamshire. | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Lastingham | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | 648 | Ethelwald son of Oswald, King of Northumberland | Founded originally in 648 by Ethelwald, with St. Cedd as first abbot, but re-founded in 1078 for Benedictine monks. | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Whitby | Streoneshalh | Benedict | Nuns | Abbey | St. Peter | 657 | Oswald, King of Northumberland | Oswald appointed Lady Hilda, abbess of Hartlepool Abbey, and grand-niece of Edwin the first Christian king of Northumbria, as founding abbess. | |
Engl. | Yorks. | Beverley Minster | College | Secular | Church | St. John and St. Martin | About 700 | St. John, Archbishop of York | Re-founded in 934. | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Ripon | Cathedral | Benedict | Monks | Church | St. Peter and St. Wilfrid | 672 | St. Wilfrid, Archbishop of York | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Ripon | Hospital | Hospital | St. Mary Magdalene | Before 1139 | Thurstan Archbishop of York | For the Relief of Poor and Leprous People. | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Selby | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | Virgin Mary, and St. Germain the Bishop | About 1070 | Benedict, a monk at Auxerre | Founded on land granted by King William the Conqueror. | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | St. Mary, York | Benedict | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | 1088 | Alan Rufus, son of Eudo, Count of Bretagne | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | St. Martin, Richmond | Benedict | Priory | Monks | St. Martin | Cell: dependent on St Mary's York | About 1100 | Wymar, dapifer (steward) to Stephen, Earl of Richmond | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Middlesbrough | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Hilda | Cell: dependent on Whitby | 1120-1130 | Robert de Brus and Agnes his Wife, and Adam de Brus their Son | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Hackness | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Peter | Cell: dependent on Whitby | About 1095 | William de Percy, Brother of Serlo, the Prior | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Handale | Grendale | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1133 | William Percy of Dunsley | In the parish of Loftus-in-Cleveland. | |
Engl. | Yorks. | Nunkeeling | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary, and St. Helen | 1152 | Agnes de Arches, also called Agnes de Catfoss | In memory of Agnes' husband, Herbert St. Quintin. | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Nun Monkton | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | About 1145 | William de Arches and Ivetta his Wife | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Marrick | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | After 1165 | Roger de Aske | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Kirklees | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | Virgin Mary and St. James | 1155 | Reiner le Fleming, lord of the manor of Wath-upon-Dearne | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Yedingham | Little Mareis | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary | Before 1163 | Helewise de Clere and Roger II. de Clere | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Nunburnholme | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | Before 1188 | Ancestors of Roger de Merlay Lord of the Barony of Morpeth | Possibly founded by William de Merlay or Roger I. de Merlay. | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Arden | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Andrew | About 1150 | Peter de Hoton | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Rosedale | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary and St. Laurence | 1158 | Robert, the son of Nicholas de Stuteville | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | St. Clement, York | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Clement | About 1130 | Archbishop Thurstan | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Wilberfoss | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | 1154 | Alan de Cotton | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Thicket | Benedict | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | Before 1180 | Roger fitz Roger | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Holy Trinity, York | Benedict | Monks | Priory | Holy Trinity | Alien house: dependent on the Abbey of Marmoutier, near Tours (Majus-Monasterium) in France | 1089 | Ralph Paynell | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Headley | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Alien house: dependent on the Abbey of Marmoutier, near Tours (Majus-Monasterium) in France | Before 1125 | Alexander Paynell, and Agnes, his wife | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Burstall | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Helen | Alien house: dependent on the Abbey of St. Martin d'Auchy in Rouen, Normandy | 1115 | Stephen, Earl of Albemarle | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Grosmont | Grandm | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Alien house: dependent on the Abbey of Grandmont | About 1200 | Joan Fossard, late Wife of Robert de Turneham | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Allerton Mauleverer | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Martin | Alien house: dependent on the Abbey of Marmoutier, near Tours (Majus-Monasterium) in France | About 1100 | Richard Mauleverer | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | St. John, Pontefract | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | St. John the Apostle and Evangelist | Alien house: dependent on the Abbey of La Charité-Sur-Loire | 1090 | Robert de Lacy | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | St. Nicholas, Pontefract | Hospital | Hospital | St. Nicholas | Before 1066 | William le Tabourere | For one Chaplain and eight poor People. Henry de Lacy, Son of Robert, gave the Custody of the Hospital of St. Nicholas to the Cluniac Monks in Pontefract, in the year 1159. | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Knolles Almshouse, Pontefract | Hospital | Hospital | Holy Trinity, and blessed Virgin Mary | 1385 | Sir Robert Knolles, Knt. and citizen of London, and Constance his wife | For certain Chaplains, and thirteen Poor people, such especially as by misfortune come to want. Also a Collegiate Church. | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Monk Bretton | Lund | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | St. Mary Magdalen | Dependent: on Pontefract (West Yorkshire) | 1154 | Adam Fitswane, Son of Suanus | |
Engl. | Yorks. | Arthington | Cluniac | Nuns | Priory | Unknown | 1154-1155 | Peter de Arthington | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Rievaulx | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Virgin Mary | 1132 | Walter Espec, a Great man in the Court of King Henry the I. | Near the River Rye. | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Fountains | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Virgin Mary | Cell: of Clairvaux Abbey, in Burgundy | 1132 | Thurstan, Archbishop of York | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Byland | Coxwold | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Virgin Mary | 1147 | Roger de Mowbray | Roger de Mowbray was supported by Gundreda, widow of Nigel de Albini and mother of Roger de Mowbray. | |
Engl. | Yorks. | Meaux | Melsa | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Unknown | Daughter: of Fountains, Yorkshire | 1136 | William of Blois (le Gros), Earl of Albemarle, and Lord of Holderness | At a site chosen by Adam, monk of Fountains. |
Engl. | Yorks. | Synningthwaite | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | About 1160 | Bertram Haget | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Esholt | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary and St. Leonard | Cell: of Syningthwaite | Before 1172 | Simon Ward | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Hampole | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | Before 1156 | William de Clarefai and his wife, Avice de Tany | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Swine | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | Before 1153 | Robert de Verli | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Roche | Rupe | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary | Daughter: of Newminster, Northumberland | 1147 | Richard de Buili, and Richard Fitz Turgis | |
Engl. | Yorks. | Hutton | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary | About 1162 | Ralph de Nevil | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Basedale | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | Before 1197 | Guido de Bovingcourt | After the abandonment of Hutton, the nuns settled at Basedale. | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Sawley | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Mary | Daughter: of Newminster, Northumberland | 1147 | William de Percy II., son of Alan Percy the Great | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Kirkstall | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Virgin Mary | 1147 | Henry de Lacy, Lord of the manor of Pontefract, 2nd Lord of Bowland | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Jervaulx | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Mary | Daughter: of Byland | 1145 | Akarius Fitz-Bardolf | Akarius gave to Peter de Quinciaco, and other Monks of Savigny, a parcel of Land in Wensleydale, for the erection of an Abbey of their Order. | |
Engl. | Yorks. | Nun Appleton | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary, and St. John the Apostle | About 1150 | Eustace de Merch and Adeliz de St. Quintin, his wife | With consent of their heirs Robert and William. | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Keldholme | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | Before 1135 | Robert de Stuteville | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Wykeham | Cisterc | Nuns | Priory | St. Mary | About 1153 | Pain Fitz Osbert de Wykham | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Kingston Upon Hull | Carthus | Monks | Priory | St. Mary Virgin, St. Michael and All Angels, and St. Thomas Martyr | 1378 | Michael de la Pole, Knt., Lord of Wingfield | Without the Walls of Hull, for a Prior and twelve Carthusian Monks. | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Mount Grace | Carthus | Monks | Priory | Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Nicholas | About 1398 | Thomas de Holland, Duke of Surrey, Earl of Kent, and Lord Wake | For Carthusians in his Manor of Bordelby, near Cleeveland. | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Nostell | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Nostell | 1114 | Robert de Lacy | Robert de Lacy founded this Priory at an earlier site, before he built the Church of St. Oswald at Nostell for the canons who transferred here before 1120. | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Woodkirk | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | Dependent: on Nostell | 1138-1147 | William de Warenne | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Skewkirk | Austin | Canons | Priory | All Saints | Dependent: on Nostell | 1100-1135 | Geoffrey fitz Pain | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Drax | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Nicholas | 1130-1139 | William Paynel | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Marton | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | 1141-1154 | Bertram de Bulmar | Founded originally as a double house of Canons and Nuns, but the Nuns translated before 1167 to Moxby. | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Bolton | Austin | Canons | Priory | Blessed Virgin and St. Cuthbert | 1120 | William Meschines, and Cecilia de Romeli his wife, Lady and Heiress of the honour of Skipton | Founded originally at Embsay, but the Canons were translated from hence to Bolton in 1151. | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Bolton Castle | College | Church | St. Oswald | About 1400 | Richard le Scrope, Chivalier | Suposedly founded in the church at Bolton Castle, but it is uncertain if this was ever created. | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Kirkham | Austin | Canons | Priory | Holy Trinity | About 1130 | Walter Espec and Adelina his Wife | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Guisborough | Gisburne | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | 1119 | Robert de Brus | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Scarth | Austin | Canons | Priory | Unknown | Stephen de Maynell | Supposedly founded during the reign of Henry I, for a Cell dependent on Guisborough, but there is no evidence the licence was put into effect. | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Bridlington | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | About 1113 | Walter de Gant | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Warter | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. James | Alien house: daughter of Arrouaise | 1132 | Geoffrey Fitz Pain Trusbut | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Newburgh | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | 1145 | Roger de Mowbray | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Hood | Austin | Canons | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary | Cell: of Newburgh | 1138 | Robert de Alneto | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Healaugh park | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. John the Evangelist | 1161-1184 | Bertram Haget | Bertram's daughter Alice inherited Healaugh. She married John de Friston, and their daughter Alice married Jordan de Santa Maria, and with him, about 1220 established the Augustinian Priory at the place where the earlier hermitage had existed. | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Haltemprice | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary and the Holy Cross | 1322 | Thomas Wake, Lord of Liddell | Founded originally at Cottingham and transferred here by 1327. | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | St. Leonard, York | Hospital | Hospital | St. Leonard | 936 | King Athelstan | ||||
Engl. | Yorks. | Carmans Spittle, Flixton | Hospital | Hospital | St. Mary, and St. Andrew | 924-939 | Acehorne | For one Alderman and fourteen Brothers and Sisters, in the Town of Flixton, for the Relief of Travellers that they might not be exposed to Wolves and other wild Beasts of the Woods. It was restored and confirmed in 1447 but dissolved before 1535. | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | St. Nicholas, Yarm | Hospital | Hospital | St. Nicholas | Before 1185 | Alan de Wilton | For the maintenance of three Chaplains in the said Hospital and thirteen poor people in Scarborough. | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | St. Nicholas, Scarborough | Hospital | Hospital | St. Nicholas | Before 1297 | Founded anciently by the burgesses of that town. | ||||
Engl. | Yorks. | St. Thomas the Martyr, Scarborough | Hospital | Hospital | St. Thomas the Martyr | Before 1297 | Hugh de Bulmer | Founded anciently by the burgesses of that town. | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Killingwoldgraves | Hospital | Hospital | St. Mary Magdalen | Before 1169 | Probably one of the Archbishops of York | The Archbishops of York had a manor-house in the parish and were the patrons of the hospital. | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | St. Sepulchre, Hedon | Hospital | Hospital | St. Sepulchre | Before 1276 | Alan Fitz Hubert | For lepers. | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | St. Michael, Welle | Hospital | Hospital | St. Michael | 1342 | Ralph Nevill, Knt., lord of Middleham | For three Chaplains, and certain poor and infirm People. | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | St. Nicholas, York | Hospital | Hospital | St. Nicholas | 1088-1112 | Stephen the first Abbot of St. Mary's, York | A leper house. | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | St. Nicholas, Richmond | Hospital | Hospital | St. Nicholas | Before 1171 | One of the earls of Richmond | ||||
Engl. | Yorks. | St. Agatha, Easby | Premonst | Monks | Abbey | St. Agatha | 1152 | Roald, Constable of Richmond Castle | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Coverham | Premonst | Monks | Abbey | Holy Trinity | 1190 | Helewise, Daughter and Heir of Ranulf de Glanville, a Baron, and Capital Justice of England | Founded first at Swaineby, and in 1212, translated from Swaineby to Coverham near Middleham, by Ralph Fitz-Robert, Helewise's son. | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Watton | Gilbert | Nuns and Canons | Priory | St. Mary | 1150 | Eustace Fitz-John, and Agnes his Wife, daughter of William, Constable of Chester | For Nuns, and thirteen Canons to serve and provide for them. | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | St. Andrew, York | Gilbert | Canons | Priory | St. Andrew | About 1200 | Hugh Murdac, Archdeacon of Cleveland | Fishergate at York. | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Malton | Gilbert | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | 1150 | Eustace Fitz-John, lord of Malton Castle | For Canons of this Order of Sempringham. | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Ellerton | Gilbert | Canons | Priory | Blessed Mary | About 1203 | William Fitz-Peter | William Fitz-Peter gave all his Inheritance in Ellerton on Spalding Moor for the making a Priory of Canons of the Order at Sempringham, and for the Habitation, and Maintenance of thirteen poor Men. | ||
Engl. | Yorks. | Knaresborough | Trinitar | Friars | Friary | Holy Trinity, and St. Robert | About 1252 | Robert Flower, eldest son of Took or Tocklese Flower, called Mayor of York | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Newton Garth | Hospital | Hospital | St. Mary Magdalen | Before 1179 | William Gros, Earl of Albemarle | ||||
Engl. | Yorks. | Sibthorpe | College | Church | St. Peter | 1341 | Thomas de Sibthorpe | ||||
Engl. | Yorks. | Hemingbrough | College | Church | St. Mary | 1427 | Prior and Convent of Durham | A College to consist of one Praeposit, three Prebendary-Canons, six Vicars, and six Clerks. | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Middleham | College | Church | St. Mary and St. Alkelda | 1477 | Richard, Duke of Gloucester | ||||
Engl. | Yorks. | Jesus College, Rotherham | College | Church | All Saints | 1488 | Thomas (Scot) de Rotherham, Archbishop of York | ||||
Engl. | Yorks. | Holy Trinity, York | Hospital | Hospital | Holy Trinity | 1371-1373 | The Mercers of York | In Fossgate. | |||
Engl. | Yorks. | Marton | Austin | Nuns and Canons | Priory | 1141-1154 | Bertram de Bulmer | ||||
Wales | Powys | Brecon | Cathedral | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. John the Evangelist | Dependent: on Battle, Sussex | About 1110 | Bernard de Newmarch | |
Wales | Carms. | Kidwelly | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary | Dependent: on Sherborne, Dorset | 1114 | Roger Bishop of Salisbury | ||
Wales | Carms. | Talley | Premonst | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary and St. John Baptist | Daughter: of St-Jean, Amiens, France | 1184-1189 | Lord Rhys Gruffydd Price (Rhys ap Tewdwr, Rhese Griffith Price) a Prince of South-Wales | ||
Wales | Glam. | Margam | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | Daughter: of Clairvaux | 1147 | Robert, Earl of Gloucester | ||
Wales | Monms. | Abergavenny | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary the Virgin | Alien house: dependent on St-Vincent, Le Mans | 1087-1100 | Hamelinus de Barham (Hamelin Balon) | Hamelinus de Barham came into England with the Conqueror. | |
Wales | Monms. | Llangua | Lankywan | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. James | Alien house: dependent on Lyre | 1183 | ||
Wales | Monms. | Goldcliff | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary Magdalen | Alien house: cell dependent on Bec Hellouin | 1113 | Robert de Chandos, Lord of Caerleon | ||
Wales | Monms. | Monmouth | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Mary, and St. Florence | Alien house: cell dependent on St-Florent-de-Saumur | Before 1086 | Withenoc of Monmouth (Wihenoc de Monemue) | In Withenoc's Castle of Monmouth. Withenoc also built St Mary's Priory. | |
Wales | Glam. | Neath | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Holy Trinity and the Blessed Virgin Mary | Daughter: of Savigny | 1130 | Richard de Granville | ||
Wales | Clwyd | Basingwerk | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | 1131 | Ranulph, Earl of Chester | Originally for Savignac monks. | ||
Wales | Monms. | Tintern | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | Daughter: of L'Aumône | 1131 | Walter fitz Richard de Clare | ||
Wales | Powys | Cwmhir | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | Daughter: of Whitland, Carmarthenshire | 1176 | Cadwallon ap Madog | ||
Wales | Carms. | Whitland | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | Daughter: of Clairvaux | 1144 | John de Toryton | Founded originally in 1144 at Treffgarn, but translated here in 1151. | |
Wales | Gwyn. | Clynnog Fawr | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Beuno | 616 | St. Beuno | Founded originally in 616, by St. Beuno, and re-founded before 1291, for Cistercian Monks. | ||
Wales | Cards. | Strata Florida | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | Daughter: of Whitland, Carmarthenshire | 1184 | Rhys ap Gruffydd, Prince of South-Wales | ||
Wales | Powys | Strata Marcella | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | Daughter: of Whitland, Carmarthenshire, and Buildwas, Shropshire | 1170 | Owain Cyfeiliog (Owen Keveliog) | ||
Wales | Clwyd | Aberconwy | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | St. Mary and All Saints | Daughter: of Strata Florida | 1186 | Llewellvyn ab Iorwerth | Founded originally in 1186, at Rhedynog-felen, by Llewellvyn ab Iorwerth, and translated here in 1185, by Llywelyn Fawr of Gwynedd, Son of Gervasius, Prince of North Wales. | |
Wales | Monms. | Grace Dieu | Cisterc | Monks | Abbey | Blessed Virgin Mary | Daughter: of Waverley, Surrey | 1226 | Sir John of Monmouth | ||
Wales | Pembs. | Pill | Benedict | Monks | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Budoc | Daughter: of St Dogmaels | 1113-1115 | Adam de Rupe (Adam de Roche) | For Benedictine Monks of Tiron (Tironensian). | |
Wales | Carms. | St. Clears | Cluniac | Monks | Priory | St. Mary Magdalene, and St. Clears | Cell: of St Martin-des-Champs, Paris | 1147-1184 | William Giffard Bishop of Winchester | ||
Wales | Monms. | Llanthony | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. John Baptist | Cell: dependent on Llanthony Secunda, Gloucestershire | 1087-1100 | William, a knight, and Erninius, Chaplain to Queen Maud, Wife of King Henry the I. | Founded at Llanthony, and in 1481 translated to Gloucester (Llanthony Secunda). | |
Wales | Gwyn. | Beddgelert | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Mary | About 1198 | Llywelyn the Great. | |||
Wales | Carms. | Carmarthen | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. John the Evangelist, and St. Teulyddog | Before 1127 | King Henry I. | |||
Wales | Pembs. | Haverford | Austin | Canons | Priory | Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Thomas the Martyr | Before 1200 | Robert of Haverford | |||
Wales | Angle. | Penmon | Glannagh | Austin | Canons | Priory | St. Seiriol | 1221 | Llywelyn Fawr, Prince of Gwynedd | Originally 6th century Celtic monastery, reputedly founded by St. Seiriol, destroyed by the Danes, and rebuilt and re-founded in 1221, by Llywelyn Fawr, Prince of Gwynedd. | |
Wales | Glam. | Ewenny | Benedict | Monks | Priory | St. Michael | Cell: dependent on Gloucester, Gloucestershire | Before 1141 | Maurice de Londres | ||
Wales | Clwyd | Ruthin | Christ's Hospital in Ruthin | Hospital | Hospital | St. Peter | 1590 | Dr Gabriel Goodman, Dean of the Collegiate of Westminster | For a Preacher and twelve poor People. Dr Gabriel Goodman was a native of Ruthin. | ||
Wales | Glam. | Llandaff | Cathedral | Secular | Church | St. Peter | 1107 | Urban, Bishop of Llandaff | Founded originally in the 6th century (522) by St. Dubricius, and became a secular collegiate episcopal diocesan cathedral in 1107. | ||
Wales | Carms. | Llangadoc | College | Church | St. Maurice, and St. Thomas the Martyr | 1283 | Thomas Bek, Bishop of St. Davids | It is uncertain if this college was ever created, and a successor, Bishop Henry Gower, instead founded the college in Abergwilli. | |||
Wales | Carms. | Abergwilli | College | Church | St. David | 1331 | Bishop Henry Gower, of St. Davids | ||||
Wales | Pembs. | St. Marys, St. Davids | College | Church | St. Mary | 1365 | John Duke of Lancaster, and the Lady Blanch his Wife, and Adam Houghton, Bishop of St. David's |