The following is a list of the monastic houses in Cornwall, England.
| Foundation | Image | Communities and provenance | Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names | Online References & Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altarnon Monastery | probable monastery before 1066 | Altarnun Monastery | 50.6048°N -4.5126°W | ||
| Bodmin — Abbey of St Mary & St Petroc | Augustinian Canons Regular (Canons Regular of the Lateran founded 1881; raised to abbey status 1953 | [3] 50.4693°N -4.7336°W | |||
| Bodmin Blackfriars | probable mistaken reference to Bodmin Greyfriars | ||||
| Bodmin Greyfriars # | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Bristol) founded before 1260; dissolved 1538 | Bodmin Greyfriars | 50.4797°N -4.7196°W | ||
| 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 | 50.4707°N -4.7157°W | ||
| Breage Grange | Cistercian monks grange dependent on Hailes, Gloucestershire; founded c.1300 | ||||
| Cardinham Grange # | purported medieval monastery | 50.4715°N -4.6514°W (possible) | |||
| Constantyne Monastery | Celtic monks | ||||
| Crantock Monastery | Celtic monks probably founded by a St Carrock; secular before 1066; recorded extant 1086; secular canons collegiate refounded 1236; dissolved 1549 | St Corontocus ____________________ St Karentoc's Monastery | 50.4031°N -5.112°W | ||
| Dingerein Monastery | Celtic monks | Dinurrin Monastery | |||
| Gulval Monastery | Celtic monks founded by St Gudwall (Wolvela), from Wales | Dinurrin Monastery | |||
| Kea Monastery, Old Kea | Celtic monks supposed site of monastery recorded extant 1086 | St Cheus Monastery; Old Kea Monastery | 50.236°N -5.0243°W (supposed) | ||
| Lammana Priory, Looe Island | Benedictine monks founded 6th century; Benedictine monks cell dependent on Glastonbury and chapel; founded before 1114; disposed of by Glastonbury between 1239 and 1329; chantry chapel of the Dawnay family before 1329; dissolved 1549 | The Priory Church of St Michael, Lammana ____________________ Lammana Chapel | 50.3369°N -4.4491°W | ||
| Lansallos Monastery | Celtic monks patronised by St Ildierna | St Salwys (St Alwys) | |||
| Lannachebran Cell, St Keverne | monks founded c.6th century 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 | 50.0507°N -5.0868°W | ||
| Launcells Priory | Celtic monks secular at Norman Conquest Augustinian Canons Regular | ||||
| Launceston Friary(?) | Friars | ||||
| Launceston Priory, earlier site | monks or secular founded before c.830; secular canons to c.1126 | ||||
| Launceston Priory + | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1127; dissolved 1539; restored 1871; in parochial use as the Church of St Thomas the Apostle | 50.6412°N -4.3661°W | |||
| 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 | 50.5412°N -4.9429°W (possible) | ||
| Madron Monastery | Celtic monks before 12th century | 50.1316°N -5.5647°W (approx) | |||
| Manaccan Monastery | Celtic monks | 50.0825°N -5.1265°W (approx) | |||
| Mawgan in Pydar Franciscan Monastery * | Franciscan monks | The Franciscan Monastery of St Joseph and St Anne, St Mawgan in Pydar | [13] | ||
| Minster Priory + | Celtic monks? founded before 1066; Benedictine monks alien house: daughter house of the Abbey of St. Sergius, Angers founded before 1190 by William de Bottreaux; dissolved before 1407; slight remains of priory near the medieval parochial church | The Priory Church of Saint Materiana, Minster St Mertherian ____________________ Talcarne Priory; Minster Cell | 50.6832°N -4.6757°W | ||
| 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 | 50.2957°N -4.9443°W | |||
| Rialton Grange # | Augustinian Canons Regular chief manor or grange of Bodmin; manor house built 15th century | Rieltone Grange | 50.4204°N -5.0319°W (approx) | ||
| St Anthony's Monastery, St Anthony-in-Meneage | Celtic monks Benedictine monks alien house: grange of St-Serge, Angers; founded from Brittany?; became parochial after 1066; became a grange of Tywardreath before mid-12th century (though referred to as a cell); founded after 1088; dissolved after 1381 | Lantenning Monastery | 50.0827°N -5.109°W (approx) | ||
| 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 | [15] 50.1481°N -5.0135°W (approx) | ||
| 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 | 50.062°N -5.6483°W (approx) | |||
| St Carrok's Monastery #, St Winnow | Celtic monks dissolved/destroyed before 1086?: seized by Robert, Count of Mortain; Cluniac monks alien house: cell dependent on Montacute, Somerset; founded 1100-40: granted to Montacute by William, son of Robert c.1100; became denizen: independent from 1407; dissolved 1537; granted to Laurence Courtney 1534/5 | St Carroc Monastery; St Syriac's Monastery; St Cyricus and St Julitta's Monastery; St Cadix's Monastery; St Syriac's Cell | 50.3829°N -4.6528°W (approx) | ||
| St German's Priory + | Celtic monks possibly founded 7th century; secular canons episcopal diocesan cathedral founded c.936; see transferred to new site at Crediton, Devon 1042; monks or secular founded 1042; Augustinian Canons Regular refounded 1184 (1161-87); dissolved 2 March 1539; granted to Catherine Champernoun, John Ridgeway and others 1541/2; now in use as parish church; remains of claustral buildings incorporated into Port Eliot House | The Priory Church of Saint German, Saint Germans | 50.3967°N -4.3097°W | ||
| St Goran's Monastery, St Goran | Celtic monks founded 6th century; patronised by St Goran in the time of St Petroc; dissolved after 1083; church and lands granted to the college of Glasney 1269 | 50.243°N -4.801°W (approx) | |||
| St Kew Cell ~ | monks founded 6th century (in the time of St Samson); purported Augustinian cell secular minster status confirmed by King Edgar, who granted land to the minster 961-3; secular collegiate clerks or secular canons until 1283; Augustinian Secular Canons — from Plympton, Devon until before 1283 church rebuilt 1496 and restored 1883 | St Daw (or St Docco) Saint Kew (from 1440) | 50.5581°N -4.7944°W | ||
| St Matthew's Monastery | uncertain order and foundation | ||||
| St Mawgan Monastery + | Celtic monks lands passed to the Bishop before 1085; Cluniac monks; Carmelite convent possibly built on site 16th century | Lanherne Monastery; St Mawgan in Pydar Monastery | 50.4626°N -5.0254°W (approx) | ||
| St Michael's Mount Priory + | Saxon Benedictine? monks 8th century-11th century; Benedictine monks founded 1087-90; church consecrated 1135; alien house: dependent on Mont-St-Michel, Normandy granted by Edward the Confessor to Mont-St-Michel before 1050; seized during wars with the French 1362; dissolved c.1414; granted by Henry VI to King's College, Cambridge; granted by Edward IV to Syon Abbey; used alternately as fortress and monastery and private residence with public access; (NT) | [20] 50.1164°N -5.4783°W | |||
| St Neot's Monastery, St Neot | Celtic monks founded 6th century?; dissolved after 1084 | Saint Aniet | 50.4744°N -4.5662°W | ||
| St Piran's Monastery, Perranzabuloe | Celtic monks founded 6th century?; dissolved before c.1085 | 50.365°N -5.1469°W (approx) | |||
| Saltash Monastery | uncertain order and foundation | ||||
| Scilly Priory | Celtic monks, monastic cells founded before 1066; Benedictine monks cell dependent on Tavistock, Devon; founded before 1114; dissolved c.1538; Tresco Abbey Gardens created by Augustus Smith around the priory remains in 1834 | The Priory Church of St Nicholas, Scilly ____________________ Tresco Cell | [22] 49.9475°N -6.3288°W | ||
| Sclerder Abbey + | Dames de la Retraite founded c.1843; dissolved 1852; Franciscan Recollects founded 1858; dissolved 1864; Carmelite founded 1864; dissolved 1871; Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary founded 1904; dissolved 1910; Minoresses — from Rennes 1914-1920; Minoresses — from Bullingham 1922-1981; Franciscan c.1925; Carmelite — from Quidenham 1981-2014; Chemin Neuf 2014-; extant | [23] [24] [25] 50.348°N -4.5051°W | |||
| Sele Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on St-Florent-de-Saumur; founded before 1126; dissolved 1396 | ||||
| Temple property + | Knights Templar Knights Hospitaller | 50.5302°N -4.6186°W (approx) | |||
| Temple Templars Preceptory # | Knights Templar founded 12th century; dissolved 1308-12; asserted to have become a preceptory of Knights Hospitallers | 50.478°N -4.3972°W (approx) | |||
| Tintagel Monastery | remains interpreted as Celtic monastic dependent on Bodmin founded c.350; popular tradition as medieval Benedictine nunnery: evidence lacking; Norman castle built on site; current academic consensus regards earlier settlement as secular | [28] [29] 50.6686°N -4.7608°W | |||
| Trebeigh Preceptory # | Knights Templar (purportedly); Knights Hospitaller founded before 1199 "by the bounty of" Henry de Pomeral and Reginald Marsh; united with Ansty before 1432; dissolved after 1557/8; granted to Henry Wilby and George Blythe 1573/4 | Treleigh Preceptory; Turleigh Preceptory | 50.4793°N -4.3918°W | ||
| Tregonan Cell, St Ewe | Celtic monks dependent on St Keverne's Monastery founded 6th century; dissolved 11th century | 50.0552°N -5.0891°W (approx) | |||
| Tregonan Grange | Cistercian monks grange of Beaulieu, Hampshire founded before 1263; dissolved before 1527; "considerable remains" existing 1755 have since disappeared | St Keverne Grange | 50.0522°N -5.0901°W | ||
| Tregony Priory ~ | Augustinian Canons Regular alien house: priory cell dependent on Le Val, Bayeux; founded before 1125(?); granted to Merton, Surrey 1267 | The Priory Church of St James, Tregony ____________________ Tregoney Priory | 50.2663°N -4.9174°W (conjectured site) | ||
| Truro — Convent of the Epiphany ^ | Community of the Epiphany, Anglican | [31] 50.2725°N -5.059°W | |||
| 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 | 50.2633°N -5.055°W | |||
| Tywardreath Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: daughter house of St-Serge, Angers founded c.1088 by Richard fitz Turold, Lord of Cardinham Castle, chief baron of Cornwall (or 1169 "by some noblemen", or 1135); became denizen: independent c.1400; dissolved 1536; granted to Edward, Earl of Hertford 1542/3 | St Andrew ____________________ Truwardraith Priory | [32] 50.3565°N -4.6939°W |