List of monastic houses in Cornwall

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Template:Use dmy dates The following is a list of the monastic houses in Cornwall, England.

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Foundation Image Communities and provenance Formal Name or Dedication
& Alternative Names 		Online References & Location
Altarnon Monastery probable monastery
before 1066[note 1] 		Altarnun Monastery [1]

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Bodmin — Abbey of St Mary & St Petroc* Augustinian Canons Regular (Canons Regular of the Lateran[2])
founded 1881;
raised to abbey status 1953 		[3]

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Bodmin Blackfriars probable mistaken reference to Bodmin Greyfriars[note 2]
Bodmin Greyfriars # Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Bristol)
founded before 1260;
dissolved 1538 		Bodmin Greyfriars [4]

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Bodmin Priory + Celtic monks
abbey? purportedly founded 6th century by St Petroc;
Benedictine? monks
refounded 936;
nuns?
dissolved c.1113;
monks or secular
dissolved c.1124;
Augustinian Canons Regular
founded 1124;
dissolved 27 February 1538;
buildings destroyed apart from the parish church, in parochial use as Church of England parish church;
church in use for secular and industrial purposes post-dissolution 		Bodmin Monastery;
Bodmin Abbey 		[5]

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Breage Grange Cistercian monks
grange dependent on Hailes, Gloucestershire;
founded c.1300
Cardinham Grange # purported medieval monastery [6]

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Constantyne Monastery Celtic monks[note 3]
Crantock Monastery Celtic monks
probably founded by a St Carrock;
secular
before 1066;
recorded extant 1086;
secular canons collegiate
refounded 1236;
dissolved 1549 		St Corontocus
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St Karentoc's Monastery 		[7]

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Dingerein Monastery Celtic monks[note 4] Dinurrin Monastery
Gulval Monastery Celtic monks[note 5]
founded by St Gudwall (Wolvela), from Wales 		Dinurrin Monastery
Kea Monastery, Old Kea Celtic monks[note 6]
supposed site of monastery recorded extant 1086 		St Cheus Monastery;
Old Kea Monastery 		[8]

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Lammana Priory, Looe Island File:St Michael chapel, Lammana - geograph.org.uk - 1106426.jpg Benedictine monks
founded 6th century;
Benedictine monks
cell dependent on Glastonbury and chapel;
founded before 1114;
disposed of by Glastonbury between 1239 and 1329;
chantry chapel of the Dawnay family before 1329;
dissolved 1549 		The Priory Church of St Michael, Lammana
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Lammana Chapel 		[9]

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Lansallos Monastery Celtic monks[note 7]
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Lannachebran Cell, St Keverne monks
founded c.6th century[note 8] under the tutelage of St Achebran;
secular collegiate
refounded before 1086;
Cistercian monks
grange dependent on Beaulieu, Hampshire;
founded before 1263;
dissolved 1527; granted to Francis, Earl of Bedford 1559/60 		St Keiran's Monastery;
St Keverne's Monastery;
Lanachebran Monastery 		[10]


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Launcells Priory Celtic monks[note 9]
secular at Norman Conquest
Augustinian Canons Regular
Launceston Friary(?) Friars[note 10]
Launceston Priory, earlier site monks or secular
founded before c.830;
secular canons to c.1126
Launceston Priory + Augustinian Canons Regular
founded 1127;
dissolved 1539;
restored 1871;
in parochial use as the Church of St Thomas the Apostle 		[11]

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Lanwethinoc Monastery~, Padstow Celtic monks
founded by Bishop Wethinoc;
site possibly occupied by the medieval Church of St Petroc at Padstow 		Lanuthinoc Monastery;
St Petroc's Church;
Petroc-stow Monastery;
Padstow Monastery 		[12]

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Madron Monastery Celtic monks
before 12th century 		[13]

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Manaccan Monastery Celtic monks [14]

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Mawgan in Pydar Franciscan Monastery * Franciscan monks The Franciscan Monastery of St Joseph and St Anne, St Mawgan in Pydar [15]

Minster Priory + Celtic monks?
founded before 1066;
Benedictine monks
alien house: daughter house of the Abbey of St. Sergius, Angers
founded before 1190 by William de Bottreaux;
dissolved before 1407;
slight remains of priory near the medieval parochial church 		The Priory Church of Saint Materiana, Minster

St Mertherian
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Talcarne Priory;
Minster Cell 		[16]

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Paul Grange Cistercian monks
grange(?) dependent on Hailes, Gloucestershire;
founded c.1300(?)
Probus Monastery Celtic monks or secular
founded 924, purportedly by King Athelstan;
dissolved 940;
secular canons collegiate
founded before 1086 (or during the reign of Henry I, who granted the church to Exeter Cathedral 1120);
dissolved 1549 		[17][18]

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Rialton Grange # Augustinian Canons Regular
chief manor or grange of Bodmin;
manor house built 15th century 		Rieltone Grange [19]

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St Anthony's Monastery, St Anthony-in-Meneage Celtic monks[note 11]
Benedictine monks
alien house: grange of St-Serge, Angers;
founded from Brittany?;
became parochial after 1066;
became a grange of Tywardreath before mid-12th century (though referred to as a cell);
founded after 1088;
dissolved after 1381 		Lantenning Monastery [20]

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St Anthony-in-Roseland Priory ^ Augustinian Canons Regular
priory cell dependent on Plympton, Devon
founded before 1288;
dissolved 1538;
remains incorporated into house named 'Place House' built on site 16th Century 		St Anthony-in-Roseland Cell [21]

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St Buryan's Monastery, St Buryan Celtic monks
secular collegiate
founded c.930, purportedly by King Athelstan;
dissolved 1545;
parish church (SS Andrew, Thomas the Martyr, Nicholas and Beriana) on site rebuilt 13th century, though mostly now 15th century 		[22]

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St Carrok's Monastery #, St Winnow Celtic monks[note 12]
dissolved/destroyed before 1086?: seized by Robert, Count of Mortain;
Cluniac monks
alien house: cell dependent on Montacute, Somerset;
founded 1100-40: granted to Montacute by William, son of Robert c.1100;
became denizen: independent from 1407;
dissolved 1537; granted to Laurence Courtney 1534/5 		St Carroc Monastery;
St Syriac's Monastery;
St Cyricus and St Julitta's Monastery;
St Cadix's Monastery;
St Syriac's Cell

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St German's Priory + File:St Germans Church 1.jpg Celtic monks
possibly founded 7th century;
secular canons
episcopal diocesan cathedral
founded c.936;
see transferred to new site at Crediton, Devon 1042;
monks or secular
founded 1042;
Augustinian Canons Regular
refounded 1184 (1161-87);
dissolved 2 March 1539; granted to Catherine Champernoun, John Ridgeway and others 1541/2;
now in use as parish church; remains of claustral buildings incorporated into Port Eliot House 		The Priory Church of Saint German, Saint Germans [23]

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St Goran's Monastery, St Goran Celtic monks[note 13]
founded 6th century; patronised by St Goran in the time of St Petroc;
dissolved after 1083;
church and lands granted to the college of Glasney 1269 		[24]

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St Kew Cell ~ monks[note 14]
founded 6th century (in the time of St Samson);
purported Augustinian cell
secular minster status confirmed by King Edgar, who granted land to the minster 961-3;
secular collegiate
clerks or secular canons until 1283;
Augustinian Secular Canons — from Plympton, Devon
until before 1283
church rebuilt 1496 and restored 1883 		St Daw (or St Docco)

Saint Kew (from 1440)

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St Matthew's Monastery uncertain order and foundation
St Mawgan Monastery + Celtic monks[note 15]
lands passed to the Bishop before 1085;
Cluniac monks;
Carmelite convent possibly built on site 16th century 		Lanherne Monastery;
St Mawgan in Pydar Monastery 		[25]

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St Michael's Mount Priory + File:England-Saint-Michaels-Mount-1900-1.jpg Saxon Benedictine? monks
8th century-11th century;
Benedictine monks
founded 1087-90;
church consecrated 1135;
alien house: dependent on Mont-St-Michel, Normandy
granted by Edward the Confessor to Mont-St-Michel before 1050;
seized during wars with the French 1362;
dissolved c.1414;
granted by Henry VI to King's College, Cambridge;
granted by Edward IV to Syon Abbey;
used alternately as fortress and monastery and private residence with public access; (NT) 		[26]

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St Neot's Monastery, St Neot Celtic monks[note 16]
founded 6th century?;
dissolved after 1084 		Saint Aniet

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St Piran's Monastery, Perranzabuloe Celtic monks
founded 6th century?;
dissolved before c.1085 		[27]

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Saltash Monastery uncertain order and foundation
Scilly Priory Celtic monks, monastic cells
founded before 1066;
Benedictine monks
cell dependent on Tavistock, Devon;
founded before 1114;
dissolved c.1538;
Tresco Abbey Gardens created by Augustus Smith around the priory remains in 1834 		The Priory Church of St Nicholas, Scilly
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Tresco Cell 		[28]

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Sclerder Abbey + File:Sclerder Lane - geograph.org.uk - 530758.jpg Dames de la Retraite
founded c.1843; dissolved 1852;
Franciscan Recollects
founded 1858; dissolved 1864;
Carmelite
founded 1864; dissolved 1871;
Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary
founded 1904; dissolved 1910;
Minoresses — from Rennes 1914-1920;
Minoresses — from Bullingham 1922-1981;
Franciscan
c.1925;
Carmelite — from Quidenham 1981-2014;
Chemin Neuf 2014-; extant 		[29][30][31]

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Sele Priory Benedictine monks
alien house: dependent on St-Florent-de-Saumur;
founded before 1126;
dissolved 1396
Temple property + File:Cross of the Knights Hospitaller.svg Knights Templar
Knights Hospitaller

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Temple Templars Preceptory # File:Cross of the Knights Hospitaller.svg Knights Templar
founded 12th century;
dissolved 1308-12;
asserted to have become a preceptory of Knights Hospitallers[note 17] — (disputed) 		[32]

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Tintagel Monastery remains interpreted as Celtic monastic
dependent on Bodmin[note 18];
founded c.350;
popular tradition as medieval Benedictine nunnery: evidence lacking;
Norman castle built on site;
current academic consensus regards earlier settlement as secular 		[33][34][35]

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Trebeigh Preceptory # File:Cross of the Knights Hospitaller.svg Knights Templar (purportedly);
Knights Hospitaller
founded before 1199 "by the bounty of" Henry de Pomeral and Reginald Marsh;
united with Ansty before 1432;
dissolved after 1557/8; granted to Henry Wilby and George Blythe 1573/4 		Treleigh Preceptory;
Turleigh Preceptory 		[36]

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Tregonan Cell, St Ewe Celtic monks[note 19]
dependent on St Keverne's Monastery
founded 6th century;
dissolved 11th century 		[37]

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Tregonan Grange Cistercian monks grange of Beaulieu, Hampshire
founded before 1263;
dissolved before 1527;
"considerable remains" existing 1755 have since disappeared 		St Keverne Grange [38]

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Tregony Priory ~ Augustinian Canons Regular
alien house: priory cell dependent on Le Val, Bayeux;
founded before 1125(?);
granted to Merton, Surrey 1267 		The Priory Church of St James, Tregony
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Tregoney Priory 		[39]

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Truro — Convent of the Epiphany ^ Community of the Epiphany, Anglican [40]

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Truro Blackfriars Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of London)
founded before 1259 (during the reign of Henry III) by the Reskimer family; (church consecrated 1259-60);
dissolved 1538; granted to Edward Anglianby 1553/4 		[41]

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Tywardreath Priory Benedictine monks
alien house: daughter house of St-Serge, Angers
founded c.1088 by Richard fitz Turold, Lord of Cardinham Castle, chief baron of Cornwall (or 1169 "by some noblemen", or 1135);
became denizen: independent c.1400;
dissolved 1536; granted to Edward, Earl of Hertford 1542/3 		St Andrew
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Truwardraith Priory 		[42][43]

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ↑ Altarnon Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 54, Cornish Church Guide, 1925
  2. ↑ Bodmin 'Blackfriars' — given by John Leland, Itinerary; T. Tanner, Notitia Monastica p. 72, note n. gives this as a seemingly erroneous reference to Bodmin Greyfriars
  3. ↑ Constantyne Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 78, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
  4. ↑ Dingerein Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 100, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
  5. ↑ Gulval Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 104, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
  6. ↑ Kea Monastery Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 116, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
  7. ↑ Lansallos Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 133, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
  8. ↑ Lannachebran Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", pp. 117–8, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925 and W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum v, p. 682
  9. ↑ Launcells Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 136, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
  10. ↑ Launceston Friary — T. Tanner, Notitia Monastica p. 72, cites mention of friary in addition to the abbey or priory by Mr Carew, Survey of Cornwall, f.81b/f.116b
  11. ↑ St Anthony-in-Meneage Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 55, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
  12. ↑ St Carrok's Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 213, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
  13. ↑ St Goran's Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 102, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
  14. ↑ St Kew's Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 119, Cornish Church Guide, 1928
  15. ↑ St Mawgan/Lanherne Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 156, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
  16. ↑ St Neot's Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", pp. 179–83, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
  17. ↑ Temple Preceptory:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p.112 & 212, Cornish Church Guide, 1928
  18. ↑ Tintagel Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", pp. 203–6, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
  19. ↑ Tregonan Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 118, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925

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References

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  33. ↑ Tintagel (England, United Kingdom) — Britannica Online Encyclopedia
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  35. ↑ Thomas, Charles (1993) Tintagel: Arthur and Archaeology. London: Batsford/English Heritage. (refuting work of C. A. R. Radford)
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Further reading

  • Oliver, George (1846) Monasticon Dioecesis Exoniensis: being a collection of records and instruments illustrating the ancient conventual, collegiate, and eleemosynary foundations, in the Counties of Cornwall and Devon, with historical notices, and a supplement, comprising a list of the dedications of churches in the Diocese, an amended edition of the taxation of Pope Nicholas, and an abstract of the Chantry Rolls [with supplement and index]. Exeter: P. A. Hannaford, 1846, 1854, 1889
  • Olson, Lynette (1989) Early Monasteries in Cornwall (Studies in Celtic History series). Woodbridge: Boydell Press Template:ISBN
  • Orme, Nicholas (2007) Cornwall and the Cross. Chichester: Phillimore; English Heritage
  • Orme, Nicholas (1996) English Church Dedications: with a Survey of Cornwall and Devon, University of Exeter Press Template:ISBN

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