List of monastic houses in Buckinghamshire
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The following is a list of monastic houses in Buckinghamshire
, England.
The following location in Buckinghamshire lacks known monastic connection:
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....
, England.
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| Ankerwyke Priory, Wraysbury Wraysbury Wraysbury, traditionally spelt Wyrardisbury, is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. It is located in the very east of the county, in the part that was in Buckinghamshire until 1974... |
Benedictine nuns founded c.1160 by Gilbert de Mountfitchet, kt., lord of Wyrardisbury and his son; dissolved before 8 July 1536; granted to Lord Windsor 1538/9 then to Sir Thomas Smith 1550/1 ruins in grounds of Ankerwycke House |
The Priory Church of Saint Mary Magdalene Ankerwick Priory; Ankerwycke Priory 51.443643°N 0.557191°W |
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| Aylesbury Greyfriars # | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Oxford) founded 1387 by James Butler, earl of Ormond; dissolved 1 October 1538 |
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| Aylesbury Monastery # | possible nuns order and period unknown said to have been a nunnery or Trinitarian house |
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| Biddlesden Abbey Biddlesden Abbey Biddlesden was a Cistercian abbey founded in 1147 by Arnold de Bosco , steward to the Earl of Leicester. An abbot was deposed for now unknown reasons in 1192 and in the 14th to 15th centuries there was a long running dispute with the parish of Wappenham concerning the collection of tithes... # |
Cistercian monks - from Garendon founded 10 July 1147 by Ernald de Bosco, seneschal of the Earl of Leicester; dissolved 29 September 1538; granted to Thomas Wriothesley 1540/1; remains demolished c.1727; site now occupied by private house named 'Biddlesden Park' |
Saint Mary Biddlesdon Abbey; Bittlesden Abbey 52.047704°N 1.078473°W |
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| Bradwell Priory | Benedictine monks cell, dependent on Luffield; founded before 1136-44 (before/c.1155) by Meinfelin, lord of Wolverton; dissolved 1524-5 (or 1526) by Cardinal Wolsey for Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church or house of Christ, and thus sometimes known as The House), is one of the largest constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England... ; granted to Arthur Longfield 1542/3; now in private ownership; currently an urban studies centre |
Saint Mary Bradewell Priory 52.048215°N 0.795074°W |
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| Bulstrode Preceptory Bulstrode Preceptory Bulstrode Preceptory was a preceptory in Buckinghamshire, England. It was first mentioned in 1276.-History:Little is known of Bulstrode Preceptory. It certainly existed in 1276, for in that year Brother John, the preceptor, was accused of taking a bribe of half a mark from a certain robber to let... $ |
Knights Templar founded before 1276; dissolved 1308-1312; land passed to and leased on behalf of the Knights Hospitaller, though they had no commandery here; site identified through earthworks |
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| Burnham Abbey Burnham Abbey Burnham Abbey was founded as a house of Augustinian nuns in 1266 by Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, King of the Romans, who presented the community with the surrounding lands and the parish church of Burnham in Buckinghamshire... * |
Augustinian canonesses founded 1265/66 by Richard, King of the Romans; dissolved 19 September 1539; granted to William Tyldesly 1544/5 Anglican Augustinian Society of the Precious Blood transferred from Birmingham 1916 |
Saint Mary 51.515523°N 0.66036°W |
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| Chetwode Priory Chetwode Chetwode is a civil parish about southwest of Buckingham in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire. The parish is bounded to the southwest and southeast by a brook called The Birne, which here also forms part of the county boundary with Oxfordshire.... + |
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Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1244 or 1245 by Ralph de Norwich; dissolved, being reduced to the status of a cell, annexed to Notley 1460; dissolved 1535; priory church became parochial c.1480 as the Parish Church of St Mary and St Nicholas |
Saint Mary and Saint Nicholas Chetwode Cell 51.963091°N 1.069469°W |
| Crawley Monastery | founded before 1042; (ref. as monasterium 1086) | St Firmin North Crawley Monastery 52.0867287°N 0.6586808°W |
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| Gare Nunnery | Benedictine nuns founded 1163 in Stoke Goldington by Robert de Salcey, Peter de Goldington and Richard de Besseville; granted to Delapré, Northamptonshire, late 12th/early 13th centuries; apparently reduced to status of a grange by 1438; subsequenly recorded as destroyed |
Gore Nunnery; Gorefields Nunnery Prioratus Gore, Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae, Moniales Nigrae |
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| Hogshaw Nunnery Hogshaw Nunnery Hogshaw Nunnery was a nunnery in Hogshaw, Buckinghamshire, England. In the 15th century it became the Hogshaw Commandery, associated with the Knights Templar.... # |
St John of Jerusalem nuns' cell foundation unknown transferred to Buckland c.1180; site occupied by Knights Hospitaller commandery (see immediately below) |
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| Hogshaw Commandery # | Knights Hospitaller founded c.1180 on site of earlier nunnery (see immediately above), granted by William Peverel; dissolved 1470 becoming prior's possession; granted to Matilda Lane c.1543; church in use until 1650; ruined by 1700 |
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| Lavendon Abbey Lavendon Abbey Lavendon Abbey was a Premonstratensian abbey in Buckinghamshire, England. It was established in the 1150s and was dissolved in 1536.... $ |
Premonstratensian Canons founded c.1154/5-1158 by John de Bidun, sheriff of Buckinghamshire; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir Edmund Peckham 1543; site now occupied by house named Lavendon Grange (once the home of relatives of Sir Isaac Newton Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton PRS was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived."... ) |
The Abbey Church of Saint John the Baptist John the Baptist John the Baptist was an itinerant preacher and a major religious figure mentioned in the Canonical gospels. He is described in the Gospel of Luke as a relative of Jesus, who led a movement of baptism at the Jordan River... , Lavendon Lavinden Abbey 52.1726355°N 0.6807178°W |
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| Little Marlow Priory Little Marlow Priory Little Marlow Priory was a priory in Buckinghamshire, England. It was run for many years as a nunnery. It was established around 1218 and dissolved in 1536.... |
Benedictine nuns founded c.1195 or before 1218 (or 1244 by Jeffrey, Lord Spensar); dissolved in, or before 1536; granted to John Tiltey and E. Restwold 1540 |
Saint Mary Little Merlow Priory; Minchin Marlow Priory 51.5814299°N 0.7180971°W |
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| Luffield Priory Luffield Priory Luffield Priory was a monastic house in Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire, England.... |
Benedictine monks founded after 1118 (c.1123 or 1124, or 1133) by Robert II le Bossu, Earl of Leicester; suppression authorised by the pope Pope Alexander VI Pope Alexander VI , born Roderic Llançol i Borja was Pope from 1492 until his death on 18 August 1503. He is one of the most controversial of the Renaissance popes, and his Italianized surname—Borgia—became a byword for the debased standards of the Papacy of that era, most notoriously the Banquet... 1494; dissolution stayed until 1504, after the death of the serving prior |
The Blessed Virgin Mary 52.071°N 1.026°W |
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| Medmenham Abbey | Cistercian monks - from Woburn Abbey Woburn Abbey Woburn Abbey , near Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, is a country house, the seat of the Duke of Bedford and the location of the Woburn Safari Park.- Pre-20th century :... founded 1201/4, or in 1202 by Hugh de Bolbec; house built 1213; dissolved before 8 July 1536 (delayed from 1524); granted to Robert Mone and others 1547; converted into a manor house |
The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Medmenham Mendham Abbey 51.547696°N 0.838104°W |
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| Missenden Abbey Missenden Abbey Missenden Abbey was an Augustinian monastery founded in 1133 in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. It was ruined in the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the ruins later incorporated into a Georgian mansion.The abbey has been owned by Buckinghamshire New University since the mid... ^ |
Augustinian/Arroasian Canons alien house, daughter of St Mary de Bosco, or de Nemore, Ruisseauville, France; founded 1133 by William de Missenden; the house acknowledged royal supremacy 1536; dissolved 1538; granted to the Duke of Northumberland; now a residential college rarely open to general public |
The Abbey Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Great Missenden Great Missenden Abbey 51.700571°N 0.702674°W |
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| Muresley Priory, nr. Ivinghoe Ivinghoe Ivinghoe is a village and civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England, close to the border with Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. It is four miles north of Tring and six miles south of Leighton Buzzard, close to the village of Pitstone.The village name is Anglo-Saxon in... |
Benedictine nuns founded between 1107 and 1129, reputedly by Walter Giffard, bishop of Winchester (who died 1129), (or c.1160 or 1133); community evicted; granted to Sir John Dance c.1537 |
St Margaret Meursley Priory; Mursley Nunnery; St Margaret's Priory; St Margaret's in the Wood, Meuresley; St Margaret's de Bosco; Ivinghoe Nunnery; Ivinghoe Priory; Ivanhoe Monastery 51.7915385°N 0.5193266°W |
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| Newton Longville Priory Newton Longville Priory Newton Longville Priory was an alien priory in Newton Longville, Buckinghamshire, England. It was established in the 1150s and was dissolved in 1441.-History:... |
Cluniac monks alien house, daughter of Longville Ste Foi Abbey founded c.1150 or before 1102 by Walter Giffard, Count of Buckingham; dissolved 1414; granted to New College, Oxford, 1441; remains incorporated into manor house built on site 1550 |
St Faith Newington-Longaville Priory; Newton-Longville Cell 51.9743464°N 0.7675999°W |
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| Notley Abbey ^ | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1162 by Walter Giffard, Earl of Buckingham, and Lady Ermgard; dissolved 9 December 1538; granted to Sir William Paget 1547; site now occupied by a private house without public access |
The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin and Saint John the Baptist John the Baptist John the Baptist was an itinerant preacher and a major religious figure mentioned in the Canonical gospels. He is described in the Gospel of Luke as a relative of Jesus, who led a movement of baptism at the Jordan River... , Notley abbey de parco Crendon; Crendon Parc Abbey abbey de parco super Thamam; Nuctele Abbey; Noctele Abbey; Nuttley Abbey; Nutley Abbey 51.7770148°N 0.9642112°W |
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| Ravenstone Priory Ravenstone Priory Ravenstone Priory was a medieval monastic house in Buckinghamshire, England. It was established in 1255 and was dissolved in 1544.... |
Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1255 by Peter de Chaseport (Chaceport), Keeper of the Royal Wardrobe; dissolved 1525 (or 1544); granted to Sir Francis Byran 1548; site now occupied by 19thC Abbey Farm |
The Priory Church of St Mary Ravinston Priory 52.1501893°N 0.7590249°W |
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| Risborough Priory (?) | Benedictine monks - doubtful establishment; reputedly pre-Conquest cell of Canterbury Cathedral | Monks Risborough Priory 51.7323924°N 0.8249214°W |
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| Snelshall Priory Snelshall Priory Snelshall Priory was a Benedictine priory in Milton Keynes, the United Kingdom, built around 1200.The priory was started after Sybil d'Aungerville granted land at Tattenhoe to Lavendon Abbey, who most likely started a cell at Snelshall. Snelshall Priory paid 1 mark a year to Lavendon until 1232, at... $ |
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Premonstratensian Canons' cell founded 12thC, granted to Lavendon Lavendon Abbey Lavendon Abbey was a Premonstratensian abbey in Buckinghamshire, England. It was established in the 1150s and was dissolved in 1536.... by Sybil de Aungervill (Dangerville); abnd after1203-4 Benedictine monks founded 1203/4-1219 by Ralph Mortel (grandson of Sybil de Aungervill); dissolved 1535; granted to Francis Piggot 1538; site currently comprises earthworks |
St Leonard Snellshall Priory 52.0027665°N 0.8127737°W |
| Tickford Priory Tickford Priory Tickford Priory was a medieval monastic house in Buckinghamshire, England. It was established in 1140 by Fulconius paganel who was lord of the Manor of Newport Pagnell at the time, also giving his name to the town... |
Benedictine-Cluniac monks alien house, cell of Marmoutier founded 1140 or c.1100 by Fulk Paynell; dissolved 1524; sold by James I James I of England James VI and I was King of Scots as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the English and Scottish crowns on 24 March 1603... to Henry Atkins, MD |
Blessed Virgin Mary Newport Pagnel Priory; Tyxford Priory 52.0861617°N 0.7148677°W |
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| Widmere Commandery | Knights Hospitaller founded before 1248; dissolved before 1338 |
Widmere Camera; Widmere Preceptory 51.595315°N 0.8007789°W |
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| Wing Priory Wing Priory Wing Priory also Wenge Priory was a medieval monastic house in Buckinghamshire, England.-References:... # |
Saxon monastery 7thC Benedictine monks' alien cell, dependent on St Nicholas's Abbey, Angers founded before 1086; granted by Empress Matilda Empress Matilda Empress Matilda , also known as Matilda of England or Maude, was the daughter and heir of King Henry I of England. Matilda and her younger brother, William Adelin, were the only legitimate children of King Henry to survive to adulthood... to Angers; land and later, chapel, granted to Angers by Bodin de Ver; in ownership of the Crown 1342-1361 and 1393-1423; dissolved 1416; granted to St Mary de Pré nunnery, Hertfordshire by St Albans Abbey; granted to Sir Robert Dormer by King Henry VIII Henry VIII of England Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later King, of Ireland, as well as continuing the nominal claim by the English monarchs to the Kingdom of France... |
Wenge Priory 51.889107°N 0.7204628°W |
The following location in Buckinghamshire lacks known monastic connection:
- Wycombe AbbeyWycombe AbbeyWycombe Abbey is an independent girls' boarding school situated in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. It is academically one of the top schools in the United Kingdom, and the top girls' boarding school...
: Independent girls' school