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 Priory | Augustinian 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, Carisbrooke | Cistercian 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 | |||||||
Quarr Abbey | Savignac 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 Priory | Tironensian 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 Priory | Cluniac 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 |