The following is a list of the monastic houses in Lancashire, England.
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| Barnoldswick Abbey | Cistercian monks daughter house of Fountains, Yorkshire; founded 19 May 1147; transferred to Kirkstall, Yorkshire 1152, thereafter retained as a grange; currently located in a field called 'Monk's Royd' | Mount St Mary's Abbey | [1] [2] 53.9168°N -2.1957°W | ||||||
| Beaumont Grange | Savignac monks dependent on Furness (Cumbria) founded c.1130: granted by Warine; a 'large and important colony'; Cistercian monks orders merged 17 September 1147 | [3] 54.0796°N -2.7869°W | |||||||
| Burscough Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1186 (c.1190) by Robert Fitz Henry, Lord of Lathom and Knowsley probably for canons from Norton; dissolved 1536 | St Nicholas ____________________ probably Blakesmere Priory | [5] [6] 53.5831°N -2.8563°W | ||||||
| Cartmel Priory | Historical county location. See entry under | ||||||||
| Chapel-le-Wood Cell | Historical county location. See entry under | ||||||||
| Cockerham Priory # | Augustinian Canons Regular cell of St Mary in the Meadows (de Pratis) at Leicester; founded c.1207 or 1208: granted to Leicester 1153-4 by William de Lancaster; cell 1281–90, secular chaplain appointed — most of the canons withdrawn; dissolved 1477 | [7] [8] 53.96°N -2.8205°W | |||||||
| Cockersand Abbey | land granted to Leicester 1153-6 by William I of Lancaster; Hospital of St Mary founded before 1184 by Hugh Garth, hermit, with benefactions from William of Lancaster II; Premonstratensian Canons cell dependent on Croxton, Leicestershire; priory refounded after 1184 by William of Lancaster (Lancastre) raised to abbey status 1192, continuing as a hospital; dissolved 29 January 1539; granted to John Kechin (Kitchen) 1543/4; now in private ownership of the Dalton family | St Mary ____________________ Thurnham Abbey | [9] [10] 53.9767°N -2.8746°W | ||||||
| Conishead Priory | Historical county location. See entry under | ||||||||
| Furness Abbey | Historical county location. See entry under | ||||||||
| Hawkshead Grange | Historical county location. See entry under | ||||||||
| Heysham Monastery(?) # | suggested early monastic settlement; 14th-15th century church of St Peter built on site, incorporating pre-Conquest remains 800–950 | [11] 54.0474°N -2.9019°W | |||||||
| Hornby Priory # | possible hospital 1160–1172; Premonstratensian Canons cell daughter house of Croxton, Leicestershire; founded c.1172(?) by a member of the Montbegons of Hornby (the ancestors of Sir Thomas Stanley) probably by Roger de Motgebon III dissolved September 1538; granted to Lord Montegle 1544/5 | St Wilfrid ____________________ Horneby Priory | [13] [14] 54.1154°N -2.6481°W | ||||||
| Kersal Priory | Historical county location. See entry under | ||||||||
| Lancaster Blackfriars | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of York) founded 1259/60 by Sir Hugh Harrington; dissolved 1539; granted to John Polcroft 1540/1 | [15] [16] 54.0482°N -2.7967°W | |||||||
| Lancaster Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars some evidence of short-lived house | [18] 54.0512°N -2.8109°W (approx) | |||||||
| Lancaster Priory | Benedictine monks founded c.1094 by Earl Roger of Poictiers (Roger, Earl of Poitiers); alien house: dependent on Séez; dissolved 1428 | St Mary | [19] [20] 54.0507°N -2.806°W | ||||||
| Lytham Priory | Benedictine monks cell dependent on Durham; founded 1189-94 dissolved 1535 (1534); granted to Sir Thomas Holcroft; demolished; 17th century country house built on site | St Mary and St Cuthbert ____________________ Lythom Priory | [23] [24] 53.7441°N -2.9769°W | ||||||
| Marland Grange | Historical county location. See entry under | ||||||||
| Penwortham Priory | Benedictine monks founded c.1104 (between 1104 and 1122 dissolved c.1535; granted to John Fleetwood 1542/3 | [26] [27] 53.7538°N -2.7258°W | |||||||
| Preston Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Worcester) founded 1256(?) c.1260 by Edmond, Earl of Lancaster; dissolved 1539; granted to Thomas Holcroft 1540/1 | [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] 53.7598°N -2.7031°W (approx) | |||||||
| Sawley Abbey | Cistercian monks — from Newminster, Northumberland daughter house of Newminster; founded probably 6 January 1147 by William de Percy, monks probably arrived 1 January 1148; dissolved 1536; EH | Salley Abbey; Sallay Abbey | [33] 53.9133°N -2.3419°W | ||||||
| Staining Grange | Cistercian monks grange of Stanlow, Cheshire, then of Whalley; founded before 1240 | [34] 53.8177°N -2.9861°W | |||||||
| Tulketh Priory | Sauvignac monks founded 4 July 1124 by Stephen, Count of Boulogne; transferred to Furness (Cumbria) 1127 | [35] 53.7655°N -2.772°W (approx) | |||||||
| Upholland Priory + | chantry and collegiate chapel founded 1307–10; Benedictine monks/friars? founded 1319 (1318) by Walter Langton, Bishop of Lichfield; dissolved 1536; granted to John Holcroft 1545/6; remains incorporated into the Parish Church of St Thomas the Martyr | Holand Friary | [36] [37] 53.5399°N -2.7205°W | ||||||
| Warburton Priory | Historical county location. See entry under | ||||||||
| Warrington Austin Friars | Historical county location. See entry under | ||||||||
| Whalley Abbey | Cistercian monks — from Stanlow, Cheshire daughter house of Combermere, Cheshire; (community founded at Stanlow 11 November 1172); transferred here 1296, founded 4 April 1296; dissolved 10 March 1537; granted to Richard Assheton and John Braddyll 1553/4; now in ownership of the Anglican Diocese of Blackburn and the Catholic Church | The Blessed Virgin Mary ____________________ Locus Benedictus de Whalley Abbey | [38] [39] 53.8204°N -2.4105°W | ||||||
| Wyresdale Abbey | Cistercian monks — from Furness (Cumbria) and Savigny founded 1193 (c.1196), site possibly granted by Theobald Walter who appropriated a church to the new foundation between 1193 and 1196; transferred to Arklow, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, then to Abingdon, Co. Limerick; traditionally the site is below the meeting of the Marshaw Wyre and the Tarnbrook Wyre, on the north bank of the Abbeystead reservoir | [40] 53.9814°N -2.6735°W (approx traditional location) | |||||||