List of monastic houses on the Isle of Wight explained

The following is a list of the monastic houses on the Isle of Wight in England.

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Appuldurcombe House,
Wroxall
Benedictine monks
alien house dependent on Montebourg;
founded c.1100: manor granted by Richard de Redvers to Montebourg Abbey before 1090; dissolved 1414; 16th century Elizabethan house built on site; hotel 1859; leased for use as a college for young gentlemen 1867-1890s; Benedictine monks founded 1901–1908; virtually abandoned 1909; used to accommodate troops in the two World Wars; damaged by a mine 1943; currently a shell internally in ruins; (EH)
St Mary
50.617°N -1.2336°W
Barton PrioryAugustinian Canons Regular — from Cambridge
priory(?)
founded 1275 by John Insula, Rector of Shalfleet and Thomas de Winton, Rector of Godshill; dissolved 1439; granted to Winchester College
The Holy Trinity
Barton Oratory;
Burton College
[1]
50.7473°N -1.2643°W
St Mary's Priory, CarisbrookeCistercian monks
alien house: priory cell dependent on Lire Abbey;
founded c.1156 by Baldwin de Redvers: granted to Lire by William fitz Osbern, Marshall of William the Conqueror;
granted to Mount Grace, Yorkshire, by Richard II;
Benedictine monks
restored by Henry IV;
dissolved 1414; granted to the Carthusians at Sheen, Surrey by Henry V
The Priory Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Carisbrooke[2]
50.6919°N -1.3139°W
Carisbrooke Priory *Dominican nuns
currently owned by the Carisbrooke Priory Trust, a registered charity;[3]
extant
The Open Door[4]
50.6858°N -1.3075°W
Newport Whitefriars?Carmelite Friars[5]
Quarr AbbeySavignac monks
founded 27 April 1132 by Baldwin de Redvers (Redveriis);
Cistercian monks
orders merged 17 September 1147; dissolved 1536; granted to John and George Mills 1544/5
The Abbey Church of Our Lady of the Quarry
Quarrer Abbey
[6]

50.731°N -1.1994°W
Quarr Abbey *,
Binsted
Benedictine monks
founded 24 May 1907 from Appuldurcombe House
current house constructed from the ruined masonry of the former abbey; extant
[7]
50.7314°N -1.2048°W
St Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde *
Appley House, Ryde
Solesmes nuns
returned to France from exile
Benedictine nuns daughter of Liege Abbey; founded at Ventnor 1882; transferred to Appley House 1922; priory attained abbey status 1926; aggregated into the Solesmes Community 1950; extant
Priory of the Peace of the Heart of Jesus
Abbey of the Peace of the Heart of Jesus (1926)
[8]

50.7284°N -1.1464°W
St Cross PrioryTironensian monks
alien house: cell dependent Tiron; founded before 1132 (c.1120): church founded (in the tenure of Gervase, Abbot de Insula (Quarr)) by Robert Colaws; dissolved 1391; granted to Winchester College; site apparently occupied by a viaduct and railway
[9]

50.7025°N -1.2959°W
St Helen's PrioryCluniac monks
alien house: dependent on Wenlock, Shropshire;
founded c.1090 (before 1155);
dissolved 1414
[10]
50.7014°N -1.0993°W
Ventnor Priory,
Steephill View
Benedictine nuns
daughter of Liege Abbey, Belgium, founded 1882; transferred to Appley House, Ryde 1922;
Steephill View house now demolished;
Priory Lodge, built 1970, now occupies the site
Pax Cordis Jesu
50.5953°N -1.2137°W

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=38109 British History Online — Houses of Austin canons: Oratory of Barton — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 2 (pp.180-181)
  2. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=38136 British History Online — Alien houses: Carisbrooke priory — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 2 (pp.230-231)
  3. Web site: History.
  4. Web site: Carisbrooke Priory: Redirecting to our new site at carisbrookepriory.org.uk . 6 October 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110201130709/http://carisbrookepriory.com/ . 1 February 2011 . dead .
  5. Newport Whitefriars: only reference Bale: K. Egan, The Establishment and early Development of the Carmelite Order in England (PhD thesis, Cambridge 19665) citing B.M., Ms Cotton Titus D. X. f.128; B.M., MS. Harley p.539, f.144
  6. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=38099 British History Online — Houses of Cistercian monks: Abbey of Quarr — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 2 (pp.137-139)
  7. http://www.quarrabbey.co.uk/ http://www.quarrabbey.co.uk/
  8. http://www.stceciliasabbey.org.uk/index.php St. Cecilia's Abbey
  9. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=38133 British History Online — Alien houses: Priory of St Cross, Isle of Wight — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 2 (p.225)
  10. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=38128 British History Online — Alien houses: Priory of St Helen — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 2 (pp.215-216)