List of monastic houses in Wiltshire
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| Foundation | Image | Communities & Provenance | Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names |
OnLine References & Location |
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| Amesbury Abbey | File:Amesbury Abbey.jpg | tradition of early monastery destroyed 6th century; Benedictine nuns abbey founded c.979 by Alfrida, widow of King Edwin; Fontevrault Benedictine nuns alien house: dependent on Fontevrault; refounded 1177; Henry II obtained papal consent, abbess pensioned and nuns apparently expelled to other houses 1177, being replaced by nuns from Fontevrault and Westwood; Fontevrault Benedictine nuns and brothers double house priors recorded from 1194; became denizen: independent from sometime after 1403; dissolved 1539; granted to Edward, Earl of Hertford 1540/1; hypothesis that the current parish church was the church of the brethren, possibly built on the site of the early minster |
Abbey of St Mary and St Melor (c.979) ____________________ Amesbury Priory |
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| Ansty Preceptory ^(?) | Knights Hospitaller founded c.1220, manor granted by William de Turberville (Tubelville) 1210–1; dissolved 1540; granted to J. Zouch 1546/7; in use as a hospice after dissolution; badly damaged by fire 1927; converted into an engineering workshop; remains possibly incorporated into farmhouse at Manor Farm |
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| Avebury Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: cell dependent on St-Georges, Bocherville; founded after 1114 by William de Tancarville (Tancervilla); dissolved 1378; granted to Winchester College 1391; granted to Sir William Sharington 1548/9; manor house named Avebury Manor built on site c.1557 |
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| Bradenstoke Priory | File:BradenstokePriory.JPG | Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1139 (1142) by Walter D'Evereaux; dissolved 17 January 1539; granted to Richard Pexhall 1546/7; remains within farmstead named 'Bradenstoke Abbey' |
Clack Priory | [7][8] Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Bradford-on-Avon Monastery | Benedictine? monks founded c.705–710 by St Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne; granted to Shaftesbury, Dorset 1001; served as charnel house in medieval period; in use as a dwelling and a school 18th to mid-19th century; restored 1870; church now in ownership of the Wiltshire Archaeological Society |
St Lawrence | [9] Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | |
| Briontune Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular[note 1] | St Mary Magdalene ____________________ Brioptune Priory |
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| Britford Monastery (?) | possible Saxon community | |||
| Bromham Monastery | uncertain order and foundation | |||
| Calne Monastery (?) | possible Saxon community | |||
| Charlton Priory | Premonstratensian Canons alien house: dependent on L'Isle-Dieu, Normandy founded c.1187, granted to L'Isle-Dieu by Reginald de Pavely; dissolved 1380; granted to the Hospital of St Katherine-by-the-Tower granted to Sir William Sharington 1548/9 |
Charleton Priory | [10] Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | |
| Clatford Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: cell dependent on St-Victor-en-Caux; founded after 1104; manors granted by Hugh, son of Ralph de Mortimer; dissolved c.1439; granted to Eton College 1441 |
Clatford and Hullavington Priory | [11][12] Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | |
| Corsham Priory + | possibly late Saxon minster; St Bartholomew's church granted to St-Etienne, Caen by William the Conqueror; Benedictine monks alien house: cell dependent on Marmoutier; founded before 1077, granted to Marmoutier between 1068 and 1135 (during the reign of Henry I); dissolved 1294; administered by the Cluniacs at Tickford, ceasing as a priory, granted to King's College, Cambridge by Henry VI; granted to Syon Abbey by Edward VI; granted to Philip Moore 1608/9; restored by G. E. Street and C. F. Hansom 1875–8 |
Cosham Priory | [13][14] Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | |
| Cricklade Monastery (?) | possible Saxon monks or secular community | St Sampson | ||
| Damerham Monastery | Historical county location. See entry under List of monastic houses in Hampshire | |||
| Easton Priory or Hospital, Easton Royal ~ | Trinitarian hostel founded 1245 by Stephen of Tisbury, Archdeacon of Salisbury; priory founded 1251, priory church serving as both conventual and parochial; destroyed by fire 1493; apparently restored buildings were reported as in a ruinous state at dissolution; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp 1536; granted to Edward, Earl of Hertford 1608/9; present parish church possibly stands on or near the site of the conventual church |
Eston Friary |
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| Edington Priory + | File:Edington priory church.JPG | manor granted to the nuns at Romsey by King Edgar between 959 and 975; present church built as a chantry chapel 1351 by William Edington, Bishop of Winchester on site of earlier church; Bonshommes brothers[note 2] church granted to the Bonshommes 1358 as their priory church, nave reserved for parochial use; dissolved 1539; granted to William Pawlet, Lord St John 1541/2; conventual church, restored 1881–91, now in parochial use as All Saints' parish church; house named 'The Priory' possibly incorporates remains of the claustral buildings |
St Mary, St Catherine and All Saints ____________________ All Saints' Church Edindon Priory |
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| Fisherton Anger Friary | Dominican Friars (community founded 1245 at Fugglestone); transferred here 1281; dissolved 1538 |
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| Fugglestone Priory | Dominican Friars founded 1245; transferred to Fisherton Anger 1281 and thereafter retained as a cell until dissolution; dissolved 1538; apparently converted to domestic use when recorded early-19th century, when at least partly extant |
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| Great Bedwyn Monastery (?) | apparent Saxon minster community 10th century, purported traces to the east of present parish church of St Mary, which is possibly on or near site of the Saxon foundation | St Lawrence | [22] Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (possible) | |
| Hullavington Grange (?) | Benedictine monks founded 1104; dissolved after 1325 |
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| Ivychurch Priory | Saxon minster apparently established as priory church; Augustinian Canons Regular founded before 1154 by King Stephen[note 3]; dissolved 1536 |
The Blessed Virgin Mary | [23][24] Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | |
| Kington St Michael Priory | Benedictine nuns founded before 1155, probably by the family of Robert Wayfer de Brinton who granted land; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir John Long 1538/9; site now within farm |
The Priory Church of St Mary, Kington St Michael ____________________ Keinton Priory |
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| Lacock Abbey | File:Lacock Abbey view from south.jpg | Augustinian Canonesses priory founded 1230-2 by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, widow of William Longspée, confirmed 1320; raised to abbey status 1239–40 dissolved 21 January 1539; granted to Sir William Sharington 1540/1; (NT) |
The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Bernard, Lacock | [27][28] Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Longleat Priory | File:Longleat House.jpg | Augustinian Canons Regular founded before 1233 dissolved 1529; granted to Sir John Thynne 1540/1; country house named 'Longleat House' built on site |
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| Loxwell Abbey # | Cistercian monks dependent on Quarr, Isle of Wight founded 1151 by Empress Matilda, her son Henry and her chamberlain Drogo; dissolved 1154; transferred to Stanley |
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| Maiden Bradley Priory | originally a Lazer House founded 1152 (before 1164) by Manasser Biset; hospital for leper women in the care of secular brothers and priests; Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1184: granted by Bishop Hubert 1183–93[note 4]; priory founded before 1201[note 5]; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir Edward Seymore 1537/8 |
The Hospital and Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Lazarus, Maiden Bradley ____________________ Mayden Bradeley Priory |
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| Malmesbury Abbey | File:MalmesburyAbbey2011.JPG | British nuns (legendary) purportedly founded before 603 (7th century); dissolved by St Austin, Archbishop, in, or before, 604; hermitage of Irish monk and hermit Mailduib possibly 637; succeeded by St Aldhelm who built larger church of Our Saviour, SS Peter and Paul after 675; Benedictine? monks founded c.675; secular canons collegiate founded after 796; Benedictine monks founded before 965(−74) (675); destroyed in raids by the Danes 1010; soon rebuilt; refounded before 1143 by William of Malmesbury; dissolved 15 December 1539; granted to William Stump 1544/5; church now in parochial use |
Our Saviour, Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Malmesbury (after 675) St Mary, Virgin (before 1143) |
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| Marlborough Priory | Gilbertine canons founded before 1189(?) possibly by Henry II; plundered and partly destroyed by fire 1337 dissolved January 1539; granted to Anthony Stringer; |
The Priory Church of Saint Margaret, Marlborough ____________________ Marleburgh Abbey |
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| Marlborough Whitefriars | Carmelite Friars founded c.1316 by John Godwin and William Ramesbesch (Rammeshulle): licence granted 1 January 1316 for William de Rammeshulle to grant land; dilapidated at time of suppression; dissolved 1538; granted to John Pye and Robert Brown 1542/3; demolished 1820; fragments purportedly used in a house named 'the Priory' |
Marleburgh Whitefriars | [38][39] Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | |
| Monkton Farleigh Priory | Cluniac monks alien house: dependent on Lewes, Sussex; projected by Humphrey de Bohun, probably founded 1120–1123 by his son Humphrey III and wife Maud, confirmed by Hugh, Prior of Lewes; became denizen: independent from sometime during 1373–4; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir Edward Seymore 1536/7; remains incorporated into house built on site 16th century |
St Mary Magdalene ____________________ Farleigh Priory |
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| Netheravon Monastery (?) | documentary and physical suggestion of pre-Conquest monastic community | |||
| Ogbourne Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on Bec-Hellouin; founded 1149 (before 1147), granted to Bec by Matilda de Wallingford with the assent of Henry, Duke of the Normans, and his mother Empress Matilda; granted to the Duke of Bedford 1404–5; dissolved 1414; spiritualities transferred to Windsor College 1421; other possessions divided and granted to King's College, Cambridge and Eton College, the London Charterhouse and other establishments |
Ogbourne Saint George Priory | [42][43] Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | |
| Poulton Priory | Former county location. See entry under List of monastic houses in Gloucestershire | |||
| Rockley Preceptory | Knights Templar founded 1155-6 by John Mareschall; dissolved 1308–12; Knights Hospitaller manor or camera and chapel; dissolved 1541; granted to Sir Thomas Stroude, Walter Erle and John Paget 1544/5 |
Temple Rockley Preceptory | [44][45] Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | |
| Salisbury Blackfriars | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of London) (community founded 1245 at Wilton) transferred here 1281; dissolved 1538; granted to John Pollard and William Byrte 1544/5 |
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| Salisbury Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of London) founded before 1230; dissolved 1538; granted to John Wroth 1544/5 |
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| Stanley Abbey | Cistercian monks (community founded at Loxwell 1151); transferred here 1154 by Henry II; largely rebuilt 13th century; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir Edward Bainton 1536/7 |
Stanlegh Abbey | [49][50][51] Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | |
| Stratton St Margaret Priory (?)[note 6] | Benedictine monks alien house granted to King's College, Cambridge by Henry VI |
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| Tisbury Monastery | Saxon Benedictine? monks, possible minster founded before 710; dissolved after 759 land granted to Shaftesbury 984 (983), confirmed by King Ethelred; parish church of St John the Baptist, built 1180–1200, possibly stands on site |
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| Tisbury Grange | Benedictine nuns grange dependent on Shaftesbury; Place Farm currently occupies the site |
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| Upavon Priory | land and churches at Upavon and Sheraton held by St-Wandrille 1086; Benedictine monks alien house: cell dependent on St-Wandrille; founded before 1086: land held by Domesday Survey[note 7]; cell founded by 12th century; dissolved before 1414; granted to Ivychurch 1423; granted to Francis and A. Anderson 1606/7 |
Uphaven Priory | [54][55] Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | |
| Wilton Abbey | church of St Mary founded by Weohstan, Ealdorman of Wiltshire; nuns founded c.830 (or 773), according to tradition, by petition of Weohstan's widow, Alburga, to King Egbert, to convert church of St Mary into a nunnery refounded 890; refounded 934; Benedictine nuns refounded before 970; destroyed by Sweyn 1003; rebuilt in stone by Edith, wife of Edward the Confessor, consecrated 1065; dissolved 25 March 1539; granted to Sir William Herbert 1543/4; conventual church and buildings demolished; outlying medieval building named 'the Almonry' remains; house named 'Wilton House' built on site. |
St Mary and St Bartholomew St Mary, St Bartholomew and St Edith (after 987) |
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| Wilton Blackfriars | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of London) founded 1245; dissolved 1281: transferred to Salisbury and thereafter probably only a vicarial house until 1538 |
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See also
Notes
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- ↑ Briontune/Brioptune - cited by Speed and Gervase of Canterbury; Tanner, Notitia Monastica, 609, indicates the county has no location of this name
- ↑ Edington – affiliation cited by Discovering Abbeys & Priories, Geoffrey N. Wright and Victoria County History as being one of the only two Bonshommes establishments in England
- ↑ Ivychurch - founder cited by Hundred Rolls, 1274
- ↑ Maiden Bradley - cited by Leland, Itinerary (ed. T. L. Smith (1910))
- ↑ Maiden Bradley - earliest contemporary record of a prior 1201: D. Knowles & N. Hadcock, Medieval Religious Houses: England & Wales, (1971), p.165
- ↑ Stratton St Margaret - listed by Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum; Tanner, Notitia Monastica annotates quaere ('query')
- ↑ Upavon - Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 2, p.119
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References
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- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: AMESBURY ABBEY
- ↑ British History Online — Houses of Benedictine nuns: Abbey, later priory, of Amesbury — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp.242–259)
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: ANSTY HOSPITALLERS PRECEPTORY
- ↑ British History Online — House of Knights Hospitaller: Preceptory of Ansty — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp.328–329)
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: AVEBURY MANOR
- ↑ British History Online — Alien Houses: Priory of Avebury — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp.392–393)
- ↑ Wiltshire Council — Wiltshire Community History Get Church Information
- ↑ British History Online — Houses of Augustinian canons: Priory of Bradenstoke — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp.275–288)
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: CHARLTON PRIORY
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: CLATFORD PRIORY
- ↑ British History Online — Alien Houses: Priory of Clatford or Hullavington — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp.393–394)
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW
- ↑ British History Online — Alien Houses: Priory of Corsham — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (p.394)
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: EASTON PRIORY HOLY TRINITY CHURCH
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: HOSPITAL OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
- ↑ British History Online — House of Trinitarians: Priory or hospital of Easton — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp.324–327)
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: THE PRIORY
- ↑ British History Online — House of Bonhommes: Edington — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp.320–324)
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: FUGGLESTONE PRIORY
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: IVYCHURCH PRIORY
- ↑ British History Online — Houses of Augustinian canons: Priory of Ivychurch — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp.289–295)
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: KINGTON ST MICHAEL PRIORY
- ↑ British History Online — Houses of Benedictine nuns: Priory of Kington St Michael — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp.259–262)
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: LACOCK ABBEY
- ↑ British History Online — Houses of Augustinian canonesses: Abbey of Lacock — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp.303–316)
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: LONGLEAT HOUSE
- ↑ British History Online — Houses of Augustinian canons: Priory of Longleat — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp.302–303)
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: LOXWELL ABBEY
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: MAIDEN BRADLEY PRIORY
- ↑ British History Online — Houses of Augustinian canons: Priory of Maiden Bradley | A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp. 295–302)
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: MALMESBURY ABBEY
- ↑ British History Online — House of Benedictine monks: Abbey of Malmesbury — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp.210–231)
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: ST MARGARETS PRIORY
- ↑ British History Online — Houses of Gilbertine canons: Priory of St Margaret, Marlborough — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp.316–319)
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: MARLBOROUGH WHITEFRIARS
- ↑ British History Online — House of Carmelite friars: Marlborough | A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp. 333–334)
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: MONKTON FARLEIGH PRIORY AND MANOR HOUSE
- ↑ British History Online — House of Cluniac monks: Priory of Monkton Farleigh — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp.262–268)
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: OGBOURNE PRIORY
- ↑ British History Online — Alien Houses: Priory of Ogbourne — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp.394–396)
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: TEMPLE ROCKLEY TEMPLARS PRECEPTORY
- ↑ British History Online — Houses of Knights Templar: Preceptory of Temple Rockley | A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp. 327–328)
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: SALISBURY BLACKFRIARS
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: SALISBURY GREYFRIARS
- ↑ British History Online — Houses of Franciscan friars: Salisbury — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp.329–330)
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: STANLEY ABBEY
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: ABBEY FARM COTTAGE
- ↑ British History Online — House of Cistercian monks: Abbey of Stanley — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp.269–275)
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: MONUMENT NO. 210467
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: PLACE FARM
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: UPAVON PRIORY
- ↑ British History Online — Alien Houses: Priory of Upavon — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp.396–397)
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: WILTON ABBEY
- ↑ British History Online — Houses of Benedictine nuns: Abbey of Wilton — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp.231–242)
- ↑ Pastscape — Detailed Result: WILTON BLACKFRIARS
- ↑ British History Online — Houses of Dominican friars: Wilton — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (pp.330–331)
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