The following is a list of the monastic houses in Surrey, England.
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| Almners Priory | 17th century priory | [1] 51.3902°N -0.5315°W | ||||||
| Bermondsey Abbey | Historical county location. See | |||||||
| Bermondsey Minster | Historical county location. See | |||||||
| Chertsey Abbey | Saxon Benedictine? monks founded 666; destroyed in raids by the Danes c.872 secular Benedictine monks refounded before 964; dissolved 1537 | The Abbey Church of Saint Peter, Chertsey | [2] [3] 51.3935°N -0.5015°W | |||||
| Guildford Blackfriars | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of London) founded 1275 by Queen Eleanor of Provence, widow of Henry III; proposal by Edward III to refound as a Dominican nunnery never transpired; dissolved 1538; site now occupied by 'The Friary' shopping centre | St Dominic? | [4] [5] 51.2366°N -0.5763°W | |||||
| Guildford Friars de Ordine Martyrum | Friars de Ordine Martyrum founded 1260; possible Polish congregation of Crutched Friars; dissolution unknown | [6] [7] 51.2316°N -0.5835°W | ||||||
| Guildford Crutched Friars (?) | alleged house of Crutched Friars possibly identical with Polish Crutched Friars house (see immediately above) | St Cross? | [10] 51.2316°N -0.5835°W | |||||
| Horne Priory | Carthusian monks projected: king's licence granted to Mary de St Paul, Countess of Pembroke c.1345 to endow and build a house for Carthusians, appears not to have been completed | Hourne Priory | ||||||
| Horsley Priory ≈ | Benedictine nuns supposedly at Rowbarnes, East Horseley; dissolution unknown | [11] 51.257°N -0.4537°W | ||||||
| Laleham Abbey * | Benedictine monks founded 13th century; The Community of St Peter the Apostle (Westminster) | [12] | ||||||
| Leatherhead Priory (?)≈ | Cistercian monks alleged monastery, founded 1263; incorporated into house called 'The Priory'; evidence lacking | [13] 51.2919°N -0.3282°W | ||||||
| Merton Priory | Historical county location. See entry under | |||||||
| Newark Priory | possible hospital Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1189 (during or before the reign of Richard I) by Ruald de Calva and his wife Beatrice; dissolved 1539; granted to Sir Antony Brown 1544/5 | The Priory Church of The Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Thomas a Becket, Newark ____________________ Adbury Priory; Aldebury Priory | [14] [15] [16] 51.3089°N -0.5068°W | |||||
| Oxenford Priory (?) | Benedictine nuns foundation unknown; manor belonged to Waverley (from before 1147), "no trace of separate foundation" dissolved after 1305(?) | |||||||
| Reigate Priory | hospital founded 1217-1235 by William de Warren, Earl of Surrey; Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1235; also given as Crutched Friars (possibly Flemish branch, or earlier Fratres Cruciferi 'Augustinian Hospitallers') dissolved 1535; granted to William Lord Howard 1541/2; conventual buildings largely demolished and replaced by a house 1541; rebuilt as a Palladian mansion 1771; since 1948 in use as a school located in public Priory Park, with a public museum | [18] [19] 51.2354°N -0.2065°W | ||||||
| Richmond Friary (Greyfriars and Austin Friars) | Historical county location. See | |||||||
| Sheen Priory | Historical county location. See | |||||||
| Sheen Friary | Historical county location. See | |||||||
| Syon Priory | Historical county location. See | |||||||
| Southwark Priory | Historical county location. See | |||||||
| Tandridge Priory | hospital founded 1189 by Odo de Dammartin, possibly ceasing to exist 1218-22; Augustinian Canons Regular founded after(?) 1218 (c.1200); dissolved 1538 (1537); granted to John Rede 1537/8 | The Priory Church of Saint James, Tandridge ____________________ Tanregge Priory | [20] [21] [22] [23] 51.2538°N -0.0272°W | |||||
| Tooting Bec Priory | Historical county location. See | |||||||
| Wanborough Grange | Cistercian monks grange of Waverley, founded 1130; dissolved 1536; barn restored 1997, owned by Guildford Borough Council, maintained by the Guildford Museum | 51.2316°N -0.6632°W | ||||||
| Waverley Abbey | Cistercian monks dependent on L'Aumône; founded 24 November 1128 (or 28 October 1129, possibly when functional for full regular life) by William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir William Fitz William 1536/7; (EH) | The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Waverley | [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] 51.2°N -0.7593°W | |||||
| Woking Monastery | Saxon monastery purported dependency of Peterborough founded c.690 (in the time of Abbot Cuthbert) granted to Peterborough by Brordar, and ealdorman, with the consent of Offa; thought to have been destroyed in raids by the Danes 871 | St Peter ____________________ Wockingas Monastery; Wocingas Minster; Old Woking Monastery; Woking Minster | [29] 51.3123°N -0.5666°W | |||||
The following establishments have no monastic connection:
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