The following is a list of monastic houses in Norfolk, England.__TOC__
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| Aldeby Priory ^(+) | Benedictine monks dependent on Norwich; founded c.1100-1119 (during the reign of Henry I) by Herbert de Losinga, Bishop of Norwich; lack of evidence for a conventual church infers that the monks officiated at the parochial church of St Mary which was granted to the priory; granted to the Dean and Prebendary of Norwich | The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Aldeby Priory | [1] 52.4786°N 1.599°W | ||||||
| Beeston Regis Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1216 (about the end of the reign of King John) by Lady Margery de Cressy; Carmelite Friars refounded 1400; dissolved 1539; granted to Sir Edmond Windham and Giles Seafoule 1545/6 | The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Beeston Regis ____________________ Beeston Priory | 52.9387°N 1.2242°W | ||||||
| Binham Priory + | Benedictine monks priory cell dependent on St Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire; founded c.1091 (before 1093) by Peter de Valoines, manor granted by William the Conqueror; dissolved 1539; granted to Sir Thomas Paston; demolition ensued but the plan to build a mansion was abandoned; nave of conventual church in parochial use as the Priory Church of St Mary and the Holy Cross. Owned by Norfolk Archaeological Trust and English Heritage | The Priory Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Binham Priory The Priory Church of St Peter and St Paul, Binham? | [2] 52.92°N 0.9467°W | ||||||
| Blackborough Priory ^ | Benedictine monks founded c.1150 by Roger de Scales and his wife Muriel; Benedictine monks and nuns granted extended for use as a double house by Robert de Scales, son of the founders c.1170(?); Benedictine nuns alone 1200; dissolved 1537; granted to the Bishop of Norwich 1550/1; remains incorporated into a private house | The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Catherine, Blackborough | [3] 52.6983°N 0.475°W | ||||||
| Blakeney Friary | Carmelite Friars land granted 1295/6 by Richard Stomer and others with the consent of their lord Sir William Roos; founded 1304-16; buildings completed 1321; dissolved 1538; granted to William Rede 1541/2; granted to Lady Anne Calthorpe; passed to the local Pepys family; remains incorporated into Friarage Farmhouse | Snitterley Whitefriars; Sniterley Whitefriars | Blakeney[4] 52.9553°N 1.0234°W | ||||||
| Bradmer Friary | Carmelite Friars founded c.1241 (1242-7) by Ralph Hempnale (Hemenhale) and Sir William de Calthrop; transferred to new site at Burnham Norton c.1253 | [5] | |||||||
| Bromehill Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded before 1224 by Sir Hugh de Plaiz; dissolved 14 May 1528 for Cardinal Wolsey's college at Ipswich; priory demolished; granted to the Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge by Edward VI | The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Thomas the Martyr, Bromehill | [6] 52.4572°N 0.6332°W | ||||||
| Bromholm Priory | Cluniac monks alien house: dependent on Castle Acre Priory; founded 1113 by William de Glanville; direct Cluniac rule c.1195;became denizen: independent from 1390; dissolved 1536; granted to Thomas Woodhouse 1545/6 | The Priory Church of St Andrew, Bromholm ____________________ Broomholm Priory | [7] [8] 52.8461°N 1.4824°W | ||||||
| Burnham Norton Friary | Carmelite Friars (community founded at Bradmer c.1241 (1242-7)); transferred from Bradmer 1253 (1252); dissolved 1538; granted to William, Lord Cobham 1541/2 | [9] 52.951°N 0.7349°W | |||||||
| Carbrooke Preceptory | possibly Knights Templar possibly founded before 1173 by granted by the husband of Maud, Countess of Clare, with preceptory unfinished; Knights Hospitaller founded c.1182: Maud, Countess of Clare granted churches of St Peter, Great Carbrook and St John the Baptist, Little Carbrook and manor of Carbrook; dissolved 1540; granted to Sir Richard Gresham and Sir Richard Southwell 1543/4 | Carbroke Preceptory[10] [11] 52.5817°N 0.8782°W | |||||||
| Carbrook Cell | Sisters of the Order of St John of Jerusalem cell founded unknown, transferred to Buckland c.1180 | ||||||||
| Carrow Priory | Benedictine nuns (community founded at Norwich between 1100 and 1135); transferred here 1146, founded by two sisters of the earlier site which was granted land by King Stephen; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir John Shelton 1538; prioress's house incorporated into later residence; remains situated within the grounds of Reckitt & Colman's works | The Priory Church of Saint Mary of Carhowe | [12] [13] [14] [15] 52.6183°N 1.3115°W | ||||||
| Castle Acre Priory | Cluniac monks alien house: dependent on Lewes, Sussex; founded 1089 (or before 1085) by William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey;became denizen: independent from sometime between 1351 and 1374; dissolved 22 November 1537; granted to Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk 1537/8; priors lodgings retained as a residence; passed into ownership of Sir Edward Coke, and remains in that family; in guardianship of Ministry of Works 1929; (EH) | The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Castle Acre Priory Church of Saint Mary, Saint Peter and Saint Paul ____________________ Castleacre Priory | [16] [17] 52.7°N 0.685°W | ||||||
| Choseley Monastery | Lazarites founded before 1273 (before the reign of Edward I) by the Earl of Gifford; dissolved 1544/5; granted Sir John Dudley, Viscount Lisle | ||||||||
| Coxford Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular (community founded at the church of St Mary, Rudham (East) c.1140); transferred to new site c.1216 (early in the reign of Henry III); dissolved 22 January 1536; granted to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk 1537 | Cokesford Priory | [18] [19] [20] 52.827°N 0.7417°W | ||||||
| Crabhouse Priory | Augustinian Canonesses founded c.1181 by Roger, prior, and canons of Ranham (Norman's Burrow) with the consent of their founder William de Lesewis (Leseurs) for the anchoress Lena; flooded and temporarily abandoned c.1200; church and many buildings partly rebuilt 1402-4; rebuilt 1420-4; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir John Gage; house named 'Crabb's Abbey' built on site | The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint John the Evangelist St Mary, St John and St Thomas | [21] [22] 52.6444°N 0.3654°W | ||||||
| Creake Abbey | chapel hospital founded before 1189 (during the reign of Henry II) by Lady Alice de Nerford and her husband Sir Robert who used the chapel to found a hospital; Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1206, the master becoming a canon, changing the hospital to a priory with the consent of the widowed Alice; hospital dedicated to St Bartholomew after(?)1217; raised to abbey status 1231 by Henry III; canons wiped out by plague 1506, abbot survived to 12 December 1506; passed to the Crown 1506; (EH) | The Priory Church of Saint Mary de Pratis ____________________ North Creake Abbey; Creek Abbey | [23] [24] 52.9207°N 0.7594°W | ||||||
| Custhorpe Cell(?) | Augustinian Canons Regular cell(?) | [26] 52.7014°N 0.6448°W | |||||||
| Docking Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: cell or grange dependent on Ivry-la-Bataille; founded 12th century; dissolved 1455; granted as a 'priory' to Eton College 1436?[27] | [28] [29] 52.8927°N 0.6148°W | |||||||
| East Dereham Monastery | Saxon nuns nunnery and probable minster founded before 743 by St Withburga; ?destroyed in raids by the Danes c.870; sole remains are a holy well, reputedly associated with the monastery | [30] 52.681°N 0.9371°W | |||||||
| Field Dalling Grange | Savignac monks alien house founded 1138 by Maud de Harscolye: James de Sancto Hylario granted land to the abbey of the Holy Trinity, Savigny; Cistercian monks orders merged 17 September 1147; (referred to as a priory cell, but believed to be a grange); dissolved 1414; granted by the Crown to Epworth Priory; granted to the Spittle-on-the-Street, Lincolnshire; granted to the Carthusians of St. Anne's Priory, Coventry, Warwickshire (West Midlands); granted to the Carthusian priory of Mount Grace 1462; granted to Martyng Hastings and James Borne | Dallingfield Priory; Field-Dalling Priory; Fieldallyng Priory | [31] [32] 52.9046°N 0.9859°W | ||||||
| Flitcham Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1217 (early in the reign of Henry III) by Sir Robert Aguillon (granted to Dametta de Flitcham); in decay by 1528; dissolved 1538; granted to Edward Lord Clinton 1538/9; house built on site 16th century | St Mary ad Fontes | [33] [34] 52.8089°N 0.5723°W | ||||||
| Gorleston Friary | Augustinian Friars (under the Limit of Cambridge) founded before 1267; William Woderove given as founder 14th century; dissolved 1538, surrendered to Richard Ingworth, Bishop of Dover | ||||||||
| Great Massingham Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded before/c.1260 probably by Nicholas le (/de) Syre (originally termed a hospital, with a prior as master); dilapidated 1475-6; refounded as a cell of West Acre; dissolved 1538; granted to Sir Thomas Gresham | St Mary and St Nicholas ____________________ Massingham Magna | [35] [36] 52.7749°N 0.6619°W | ||||||
| Great Witchingham Grange | Cluniac monks alien house: dependent on Longueville; founded after 1093: manor and other endowments granted by Walter Giffard, 1st Earl of Buckingham; possibly directly supervised by monks from time-to-time dissolved after 1414 | ||||||||
| Great Yarmouth — St Nicholas's Priory | Benedictine monks cell dependent on Norwich; founded 1101 by Herbert de Losinga, Bishop of Norwich; Church of St Nicholas was associated with the priory; dissolved 1539; granted to Norwich Cathedral; restored 1835; destroyed by bombing in World War II; restored, currently in parochial use as the Parish Church of St Nicholas; the conventual Great Hall currently in use as Priory School | The Priory Church of Saint Nicholas, Great Yarmouth; | [37] [38] 52.611°N 1.7273°W | ||||||
| Great Yarmouth Austin Friary | Augustinian Friars cell? under Gorleston founded 1339?: royal permission granted; existence purported by old tradition dissolution unknown | [40] [41] 52.5864°N 1.7246°W | |||||||
| Great Yarmouth Blackfriars | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Cambridge) founded before 1267 by Sir William Garbridge; inundated by the sea 1287, and sea wall constructed; church destroyed by fire 1525; dissolved 1538; granted to Richard Andrews and Sir Leonard Chamberlain.1542/3 | [42] [43] 52.6002°N 1.7287°W | |||||||
| Great Yarmouth Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Cambridge) founded after 1226(?)-1271 by Sir William Garbridge; dissolved 1538; granted to Sir Richard Williams, alias Cromwell 1541/2; leased 1582 as a lodging for important visitors, and part used by local civilian militia; site sold to John Woodroffe 1657; later divided and sold; monastic remains incorporated into 17th century and later buildings; remains of the cloister were opened up late 19th century, with other remains restored 1945 and thereafter | [44] [45] 52.6052°N 1.7262°W | |||||||
| Great Yarmouth Whitefriars | Carmelite Friars founded before 1277 by Edward I; destroyed by fire 1 April 1509; dissolved 1538 by Richard Ingworth, Bishop of Dover; granted to Thomas Denton and Richard Nottingham 1544/5; house built on site 17th century | [46] [47] 52.6082°N 1.7237°W | |||||||
| Haddiscoe Preceptory | Knights Templar founded before 1218; dissolved 1308-12 | [48] 52.5162°N 1.5948°W | |||||||
| Heacham Grange | Cluniac monks alien house: grange(?) dependent on Lewes, Sussex; founded before 1088: endowments including mansion and estates granted to Lewes by William de Warenne; cell purported to have existed (evidence disputed) — possibly directly supervised by monks from time-to-time; dissolution unknown | [49] 52.9045°N 0.4817°W | |||||||
| Hempton Priory | hospital founded before 1135 (during the reign of Henry I) by Roger de St Martin (St Martins), with Richard Ward (who became the first prior when the hospital became a priory) Augustinian Canons Regular founded before 1135; hospital continued to after 1200; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir William Fermer 1545/6 | The Priory Church of Saint Stephen, Hempton ____________________ Fakenham Priory; Hampton Priory | [50] [51] 52.8235°N 0.8428°W | ||||||
| Hickling Priory # | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1185 by Theobald de Valentia, son of Robert de Valoines; dissolved 1536; granted to the Bishop of Norwich | The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Saint Augustine and All Saints, Hickling 1545/6 | [52] [53] 52.7674°N 1.5835°W | ||||||
| Hitcham Cell | Cluniac monks founded during the reign of William II by William Warren, Earl of Surrey; dissolved; granted to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk 1537/8 | ||||||||
| Horsham St Faith Priory | Benedictine monks (community founded at Kirkscroft 1105); alien house: dependent on Conches; transferred here after 1105; became denizen: independent from 1390; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir Edward Elrington 1543/4 | The Priory Church of Saint Faith, Horsham | [54] [55] 52.6882°N 1.2775°W | ||||||
| Horstead Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: priory or grange? dependent on La Trinitè, Caen; founded c.1090 by William II to nunnery at Caen; nuns appear not to have resided here; probably run by a monk using the title 'prior' dissolved 1414; granted to King's College, Cambridge 1291 | Horestead Grange; Horstead Priory | [56] [57] 52.7215°N 1.3451°W | ||||||
| Ingham Priory + | secular canons collegiate founded c.1355 by Sir Miles Stapleton who was granted licence to enlarge church 1355; Trinitarian Canons founded 1360 abandoned between 1534 and 1536; dissolved 1536; prospective purchaser falsely asserted the house to be of Crutched Friars; granted to the Bishop of Norwich 1544/5; The Swan Inn public house, adjacent to the church, also stands on the site of the priory | The Priory Church of the Holy Trinity and All Saints, Ingham | [58] [59] 52.7791°N 1.5438°W | ||||||
| King's Lynn Benedictine Priory | Benedictine monks founded 1095; dissolved 1538; granted to the Dean and Chapter of Norwich; site of the prior's house consecrated and incorporated into St Margaret's churchyard early 17th century; demolished apart from small section incorporated into later building | The Priory & Parish Church of Saint Margaret with Saint Mary Magdalen and All the Virgin Saints, King's Lynn The Priory & Parish Church of Saint Margaret with St Nicholas, King's Lynn (from 1101) | [60] [61] 52.7515°N 0.3953°W | ||||||
| King's Lynn Austin Friars | Augustinian Friars (under the Custody of Cambridge) founded before 1295; dissolved 30 September 1538; granted to John Eyer 1544/5 | [62] [63] 52.7563°N 0.397°W | |||||||
| King's Lynn Blackfriars | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Cambridge) founded before 1256 by Thomas Gedney; dissolved 1539 (1538); granted to John Eyer 1544/5 | [64] [65] 52.7535°N 0.3997°W | |||||||
| King's Lynn Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Cambridge) founded c.1230, purportedly by Thomas Feltham; dissolved 1538 | [66] [67] 52.7511°N 0.3993°W | |||||||
| King's Lynn Sack Friary | Friars of the Sack founded before 1266; dissolved after 1307 | [68] [69] 52.7498°N 0.3973°W | |||||||
| King's Lynn Whitefriars | Carmelite Friars founded before c.1260, possibly by Lord Bardolph; dissolved 30 September 1538; granted to John Eyer | White Friars, King's Lynn | [70] [71] 52.7489°N 0.397°W | ||||||
| Kirkscroft Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on Conches; founded c.1105 by Robert FitzWalter and his wife Sybil; transferred to new site at Horsham St Faith shortly afterwards | The Blessed Virgin Mary | |||||||
| Langley Abbey | Premonstratensian Canons daughter house of Alnwick, Northumberland; founded 1198 by Robert Fitz Roger; dissolved 1536; granted to John Berney 1546/7 | [72] [73] [74] [75] 52.5722°N 1.4856°W | |||||||
| Lessingham Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: cell or grange dependent on Bec-Hellouin founded c.1090; dissolved c.1414 | [76] 52.801°N 1.5471°W | |||||||
| Ling Priory | Benedictine nuns foundation unknown; dissolved c.1160 | ||||||||
| Ludham, St Benet's Abbey | hermits founded c.800 by Saxon monks under Suneman (or Prince Horn); destroyed in raids by Danes 870 monks or secular canons collegiate rebuilt c.960 by Wulfric; Benedictine monks refounded by Cnut; never suppressed, granted to the Bishop of Norwich 1536; probably abandoned before 1539 | St Benet of Holm Abbey; St Benet's of Hulme Abbey | [77] [78] 52.6859°N 1.5251°W | ||||||
| Marham Abbey | Cistercian nuns founded 1249 (1251), endowed by the Countess of Arundel; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir Nicholas Hare and Robert Hare 1546/7 | The Blessed Virgin Mary, St Barbara and St Edmund, Marham | [79] [80] 52.6592°N 0.5227°W | ||||||
| Modeney Priory | Benedictine monks founded before 1291; dissolved c.1536; granted to Robert Hogan 1543/4 | Modney Priory | [81] [82] 52.54°N 0.3683°W | ||||||
| Molycourt Priory | Benedictine monks foundation unknown (pre-Conquest); cell dependent on Ely; granted to Ely 1446; dissolved with Ely 1539; site partly occupied by farmhouse | St Mary Bello Loco ____________________ Mullicourt Priory | [83] [84] 52.6024°N 0.2608°W | ||||||
| Mountjoy Priory | Benedictine monks cell dependent on Wymondham; founded after 1189; Augustinian Canons Regular granted to Augustinians after 1199 (early in the reign of John) by William de Gyney (Gisnetto/Gisneto); dissolved 1 April 1529 for Cardinal Wolsey's colleges | St Laurence St Mary the Virgin, St Michael and St Laurence ____________________ Monte Jovis Priory | [85] [86] 52.7254°N 1.1943°W | ||||||
| Narford Cell | Augustinian Canons Regular purported cell dependent on West Acre; officiating in the Chapel of St Thomas a Becket | [87] 52.6861°N 0.6025°W | |||||||
| Newbridge Hermitage | hermit's chapel founded 1094 | ||||||||
| Normansburgh Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1160 Cluniac monks alien house: cell dependent on Castle Acre; refounded c.1200; became denizen: independent from sometime between 1351 and 1374; dissolved 1537 | The Priory Church of Saint Mary the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist ____________________ Norman's Burrow Priory | [89] [90] 52.7805°N 0.8008°W | ||||||
| Norwich Austin Friars | Augustinian Friars (under the Limit of Cambridge) founded after 1277 (apparently)/before 1289; dissolved 29 August 1538; granted to Sir Thomas Henneage and William Lord Willoughby 1548/9 | [91] [92] 52.6265°N 1.3007°W | |||||||
| Norwich Blackfriars, earlier site | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Cambridge) founded 1226 by Sir Thomas Gelham; transferred to new site (see immediately below) 1307; property retained by friars; friars retired from new site when destroyed by fire 1413; returned to St Andrew's Hall 1449 | Black Hall; Old House | [93] [94] 52.634°N 1.2957°W | ||||||
| Blackfriars, Norwich | Dominican Friars (community founded at earlier site (see immediately above) 1226); licence for acquisition of site granted by Edward II by 1307; transferred here before 1307 destroyed by fire 1413; friars retired to Old Hall (see above); rebuilt; friars returned 1449; dissolved 1538; granted to the Mayor and citizens of Norwich 1540/1; now Blackfriars Hall | [95] [96] 52.6333°N 1.2947°W | |||||||
| Norwich, Friary de Domina | Friars of St Mary (actually Pied Friars) founded before c.1290 from a legacy granted by Roger de Tybenham; founded before 1274-5; community perished in the Black Death 1349, house becoming private property | [97] [98] 52.6246°N 1.3015°W | |||||||
| Norwich Friars of the Sack | Friars of the Sack founded c.1258: site secured for the friars in the parish of St Peter Hungate; dissolved before 1307; granted to Dominicans | [99] | |||||||
| Norwich Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Cambridge) founded 1226 by John de Hastingford in a house in Ciningsford (modern Conisford); dissolved 1538 | [100] [101] 52.6292°N 1.2995°W | |||||||
| Norwich Pied Friars | Pied Friars founded before 1290; dissolved c.1307; granted to the hospital of Beck in Billingford and converted into a chantry and collegiate 14th century which continued until the dissolution | [102] 52.6274°N 1.2995°W | |||||||
| Norwich Priory | Benedictine nuns founded between 1100 and 1135 (during the reign of Henry I); transferred c.1146 to Carrow | St Mary and St John | |||||||
| White Friars, Norwich | Carmelite Friars founded 1256 by Philip Cougate of Norwich; dissolved 1538; granted to Richard Andrews and Leonard Chamberlain 1542/3; few visible remains | [103] [104] 52.6357°N 1.301°W | |||||||
| Great Hospital, Norwich St Giles Hospital ^ | hospital founded 1249; Augustinian Canons Regular from 1310 the master and brothers wore the Austin canons' habit; much of the medieval fabric survives in the establishment which has been in continual use since foundation | The Great Hospital; Hospital of St Giles | [105] 52.6328°N 1.3046°W | ||||||
| St. Leonard's Priory, Norwich | Benedictine monks founded c.1095 (1096), built by Herbert Losinga, Bishop of Norwich for accommodation of monks whilst the Cathedral and Priory were being constructed; >continued as a cell of Norwich Cathedral 1101; dissolved 1539 | The Priory Church of Saint Leonard, Norwich | [106] [107] 52.6312°N 1.3119°W | ||||||
| Norwich — St William's Cell | Benedictine monks cell dependent on Norwich founded before(?)1150; | St Catherine St William | |||||||
| Norwich Cathedral Priory + | Benedictine monks founded 1096-1101 by Bishop Herbert Losinga; dissolved 1539; in use as episcopal diocesan cathedral 1096-present | The Cathedral and Priory Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Norwich | [109] 52.6319°N 1.3012°W | ||||||
| Norwich, Christ Church Priory | Benedictine monks foundation unknown (before 1076) by Ingulf;[110] dissolved before 1076(?) | [111] 52.6239°N 1.2933°W | |||||||
| Old Buckenham Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1146 by William de Albini (William d'Aubigny), Earl of Chichester; dissolved September 1536; granted to Sir Thomas Lovell | The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Saint James and All Saints, Buckenham ____________________ Oldbuckenham Priory; Buckenham Priory | [112] [113] 52.491°N 1.0495°W | ||||||
| Pentney Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1130 (or during the reign of William the Conqueror) by Robert de Vallileus; annexed by Wormegay 1468; dissolved 1537; granted to Thomas Mildmay 1538/9; remains incorporated into Abbey Farm and outbuildings which now occupy the site | [114] [115] 52.6792°N 0.5159°W 52.6804°N 0.5148°W | |||||||
| Peterstone Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded before 1200; flooded 1378 and 1387; dilapidated; annexed to Walsingham 1449, ceasing to function as a priory; granted 1550/1 to ?; remains incorporated into Peterstone farmhouse | St Peter's Priory and Hospital | [116] [117] 52.952°N 0.7697°W | ||||||
| Rudham Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1140 by William Cheney; transferred to Coxford 1216 | St Mary ____________________ East Rudham Priory | 52.821°N 0.7105°W | ||||||
| Sheringham Cell | Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian cell dependent on Notley Abbey, Buckinghamshire; founded before 1164; dissolved before 1345(?) | ||||||||
| Shouldham Priory | Gilbertine Canons and nuns — double house founded after 1193 by Geoffrey Fitx Peters (Jeffery Fitz Piers) (later Earl of Essex); dissolved 15 October 1538; granted to Thomas Mildmay 1553; standing remains demolished c.1831; farmhouse and garden occupy the site | The Priory Church of the Holy Cross and the Blessed Virgin Mary, Shouldham | [118] [119] 52.6563°N 0.4824°W | ||||||
| Slevesholm Priory # | Cluniac monks alien house: dependent on Castle Acre; founded before 1290, either granted by William de Warenne in 1222-6 or established during the reign of Stephen; became denizen: independent from between 1351 and 1374; dissolved 1537 | The Blessed Virgin Mary and St Giles Slevesholm Priory | [120] 52.5353°N 0.5087°W | ||||||
| Sporle Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: cell dependent on St Florent-de-Saumur; founded before 1123; church of St Mary and other endowments granted by Alan son of Flaald: papal confirmation 1123; vacant for a time after the Black Death; dissolved c.1414; granted to Eaton College 1440 (1558/9, according to Cobbett) | [121] [122] 52.6688°N 0.7347°W | |||||||
| Stove Cell | Cluniac monks alleged cell dependent on Castle Acre, no record of monks in residence | ||||||||
| Thetford Austin Friars # | Augustinian Friars (under the Limit of Cambridge) founded c.1387 by John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, who made a benefaction: land granted by Sir Thomas Morley and Simon Barbour, apparently established 1389; dissolved September 1538; granted to Sir Richard Fulmerestoone 1540/1; nothing of the founded currently visible, remains of the foundations are believed to exist beneath the ground southeast of Thetford castle | [123] [124] 52.4102°N 0.7558°W | |||||||
| Thetford Blackfriars | episcopal diocesan cathedral for the diocese of East Anglia founded 1072; see transferred to Norwich 9 April 1094-1096; (converted for use as Cluniac Priory until 1114 (v. Thetford Priory, earlier site, infra), after which it lain waste for over 200 years); Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Cambridge) founded 1335: church of St Mary the Great granted by Henry, Earl of Lancaster, confirmed by the King 20 July 1335; the Church of the Holy Trinity (founded 1072) made the friary church; dissolved 1538; remains of friary church, now incorporated into school buildings | [125] [126] 52.4137°N 0.7444°W | |||||||
| Thetford — Holy Sepulchre Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular — Holy Sepulchre founded after 1139 by William de Warenne, Earl of Surrey on land granted by King Stephen Augustinian Canons Regular (independent) before c.1260; dissolved 1536 | The Canon's Priory; The Canons | [127] [128] 52.4137°N 0.7406°W | ||||||
| Thetford Priory, earlier site | episcopal diocesan cathedral for East Anglia founded 1072; see transferred to Norwich 9 April 1094-1096; Cluniac monks alien house: dependent on Lewes, Sussex; founded 1103-4, built by Robert Bigot; transferred to new site (see immediately below) 1114; site granted to Dominican Friars 1335 (v. Thetford Blackfriars, supra) | 52.4136°N 0.7444°W | |||||||
| Thetford Priory | Cluniac monks alien house: dependent on Lewes, Sussex; (community founded at earlier site (see immediately above) 1103-4); transferred here 1114; became denizen: independent from 1376; dissolved 16 February 1540; granted to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk 1540/1; (EH) | St Mary | [129] [130] 52.4167°N 0.7426°W | ||||||
| Thetford — St George's Priory | Benedictine monks cell dependent on Bury St Edmunds; founded after 1020 (during the reign of Cnut) by Abbot Uvius; abandoned 1160; Benedictine nuns — from Ling refounded c.1160 by Abbot Hugh de Norwold; dissolved February 1537; granted to Richard Fulmerstone Esq. 1538/9 | The Priory Church of Saint George, Thetford | [131] 52.4059°N 0.7522°W | ||||||
| Toft Monks Priory # | Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on St-Pierre, Preaux; founded between 1087 and 1100 (during the reign of William II) Church of St Margaret and its endowments granted to the Abbey of St-Pierre, Preaux dissolved 1414; granted to Witham, Somerset; transferred to King's College, Cambridge 1462 | [132] 52.4991°N 1.564°W | |||||||
| Walsingham Friary | Franciscan Friars (under the Custody of Cambridge) founded 1 February 1347 by Elizabeth de Burgh (Burgo), Countess of Clare: licence granted by Edward III; dissolved 1538; granted to John Eyer 1544/5 | Walsginham Greyfriars | [133] [134] 52.8921°N 0.8719°W | ||||||
| Walsingham Priory | secular chapel founded before 1066; Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1153 by Geoffrey de Favarches (or the widow of Richoldis de Favarches) incorporating the Chapel of Our Lady of Walsingham (founded before 1066); dissolved 1538; granted to Thomas Sidney 1539/40; now in private ownership with public access | Little Walsingham Priory | [135] [136] [137] 52.8936°N 0.8754°W | ||||||
| Welle Priory, in Gayton | Benedictine monks alien house: cell dependent on St-Etienne, Caen; founded c.1081 (during the reign of William the Conqueror) by William de Streis, who granted the manor of Well and the church of Gayton; united with Panfield c.1275; dissolved 1415; granted to St Stephen's, Westminster 1469; granted to the Bishops of Ely 1548/9; site currently occupied by house named 'Well Hall' built on site 18th century (c.1700) | Well Hall Priory; Welles Priory | [138] [139] 52.7524°N 0.5552°W | ||||||
| Wendling Abbey | Premonstratensian Canons daughter house of Langley; founded c.1267 by Rev. William of Wendling; due to be suppressed 1528 for Wolsey's Colleges, but delayed; dissolved 1536-7; granted to Edward Dyer and H. Cressener 1573/4 | The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Wendling | [140] [141] 52.6784°N 0.8668°W | ||||||
| Wereham, Priory of St. Winwaloe | Benedictine monks alien house: cell dependent on Montreuil; founded before 1199 by the Earl of Clare; dissolved c.1321: sold 1321; granted to West Dereham 1336; granted to Thomas Guibon and William Mynn; conventual remains appear to be incorporated into Winnold House built on site | St Winwaloe ____________________ Wirham Priory | [142] [143] 52.6072°N 0.4911°W | ||||||
| West Acre Priory | Black canons probably founded before 1100 (during the reign of William II) by Oliver, parish priest; brothers joined the Augustinian order c.1135 (possibly late in the reign of Henry I); Augustinian Canons Regular transferred c.1135; dissolved 15 January 1538; granted to Thomas Gresham 1553 | The Priory Church of Saint Mary and All Saints, West Acre Westacre Priory | [144] [145] 52.7032°N 0.6337°W | ||||||
| West Dereham Abbey | Premonstratensian Canons — from Welbeck, Nottinghamshire daughter house of Welbeck; founded 1188 by Hubert Walter, Dean of York (later Bishop of Salisbury); dissolved 1539; granted to Thomas Dereham 1539/40 | The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary | [146] [147] 52.5781°N 0.4502°W | ||||||
| Weybourne Priory | Augustine Canons Regular dependent on West Acre; founded 1199 by Sir Ralph Mainwaring (Meyngaryn); independent from 1314; dissolved 1536; granted to Richard Heydon 1545/6 | The Priory Church of Saint Mary and All Saints, Weybourne ____________________ Waburn Priory | [148] [149] 52.9435°N 1.1414°W | ||||||
| Weybridge Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular priory cell; founded 1272 (before 1225) by Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk; dissolved 1536; granted to Richard Fulmerstone 1538/9 | St Mary | [150] [151] 52.6478°N 1.5681°W | ||||||
| Witchingham Priory | Cluniac monks alien house: cell or grange dependent on Longueville; founded c.1093 by Walter Giffard, 1st Earl of Buckingham who granted churches, manors and land to the priory of St Faith, Longueville, Rouen; dissolved 1414, reverting to the Crown; granted to New College, Oxford 1460 | [152] [153] 52.7361°N 1.0997°W | |||||||
| Wormegay Priory $ | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1189-99 (during the reign of Richard I or of John) by William de Warenne; cell dependent on Pentney 1468; dissolved 1537; granted to the Bishop of Norwich 1550/1 | The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Holy Cross and Saint John the Evangelist, Wormegay | [154] [155] 52.6867°N 0.4433°W | ||||||
| Wretham Grange | Benedictine monks alien house: grange(?) dependent on Conches; founded c.1260(?): granted by Roger de Tony, son of Radulph — charter witnessed by Richard de Rom; a parcel of Wootton Wawen, with possibly a single monk, if any; dissolution unknown; church was rebuilt mid-14th and 15th century granted to Sir Roland Lenthall for life 1415; possessed by the Provost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge 1443; church in parochial use after suppression; abandoned 1793; now in ruins | West Wretham Grange; Werteham Grange | [156] 52.4881°N 0.7968°W | ||||||
| Wymondham Abbey + | Benedictine monks dependent on St Albans, Hertfordshire; priory founded 1107 (in the tenure of Abbot Richard de Albini) by William de Albini: charter witnessed by Roger Bigod; raised to abbey status 1449; dissolved 1538; granted to Sir William Hadden 1545/6; church, partly ruined, now in parochial use | The Abbey Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Wymondham ____________________ Wymondham Priory | [157] [158] 52.5704°N 1.1074°W |
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