List of monastic houses in Oxfordshire
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The following is a list of monastic houses in Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire is a county in the South East region of England, bordering on Warwickshire and Northamptonshire , Buckinghamshire , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Gloucestershire ....

, England.
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Abingdon Abbey
Abingdon Abbey
Abingdon Abbey was a Benedictine monastery also known as St Mary's Abbey located in Abingdon, historically in the county of Berkshire but now in Oxfordshire, England.-History:...

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Saxon (Benedictine?) monks
probably minster and abbey;
(supposedly founded 675 by Hean, at Bagley Wood, near Sunningwell);
transferred here 695;
destroyed c. 872 in raids by the Danes;
Benedictine monks
founded c.954 (950);
dissolved 9 February 1538;
remains incorporated into town buildings;
in local authority and trust ownership with public access to church
The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Abingdon
Abingdon Abbey
Abingdon Abbey was a Benedictine monastery also known as St Mary's Abbey located in Abingdon, historically in the county of Berkshire but now in Oxfordshire, England.-History:...


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51.670222°N 1.28061°W
51.6709516°N 1.2776327°W
Barton Cell Augustinian Canons Regular
?cell, dependent on Osney; possibly an estate without resident canons
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Bicester Priory Augustinian Canons Regular
founded 1182-5, endowed by Gilbert Basset, Baron of Hedington;
dissolved 1536; granted to Charles, Duke of Suffolk 1538/9
St Edburga
Burchester Priory
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51.8950198°N 1.1525667°W
Bruern Abbey # Cistercian monks from Waverley
Waverley Abbey
Waverley Abbey was the first Cistercian abbey in England, founded in 1128 by William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester. It is situated about one mile south of Farnham, Surrey, in a bend of the River Wey.-History:...


founded 1147;
dissolved 1536; granted to Sir Antony Coke 1610/1;
site now occupied by 18thC private house named 'Bruern Abbey'
The Abbey Church of Saint Mary of the Heath of Tretone, Bruern
Brueria Abbey;
Bruerne Abbey
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51.857424°N 1.646104°W
Burford Priory
Burford Priory
Burford Priory is a country house and former priory at Burford in the English county of Oxfordshire.The house stands on the site of a 13th century Augustinian hospital. In the 1580s an Elizabethan house was built incorporating remnants of the priory hospital...

Hospital of St John the Evangelist 13thC
dissolved 1538;
restored 1637;
Anglican Benedictine
founded 1901
Priory of Our Lady, Burford
Burford
Burford is a small town on the River Windrush in the Cotswold hills in west Oxfordshire, England, about west of Oxford, southeast of Cheltenham and only from the Gloucestershire boundary...


The Priory
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51.809303°N 1.6388029°W
Caversham Cell Augustinian Canons Regular
status unknown, dependent on on Notley;
founded 1162;
dissolved c.1538
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Charlton on Otmoor Priory Benedictine monks
alien grange, dependent on St Evroul;
founded 1086 (1081) by Hugh Grentemoisnil;
dissolved 1414; granted to Sir Thomas White and others
Charleton Priory
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Charney Manor ~ Benedictine Monks
residential manor, chapel and farm; granted to Abingdon
Abingdon Abbey
Abingdon Abbey was a Benedictine monastery also known as St Mary's Abbey located in Abingdon, historically in the county of Berkshire but now in Oxfordshire, England.-History:...

 before 1066;
range c.1280; leased as a manor house from 1494; remodelled/rebuilt 16th, 17th and 19thC;
converted and in use as a hotel 20thC
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51.6479054°N 1.4503348°W
Cholsey Abbey
Cholsey Abbey
Cholsey Abbey was an Anglo-Saxon nunnery in Cholsey in the English county of Berkshire , which was founded in 986.After King Edward the Martyr was murdered, his stepmother, Ælfthryth, was implicated in the crime. Edward's death had allowed Ælfthryth's son, Ethelred the Unready, to become King of...

Benedictine monks
founded 986 by Ethelred of England
probably destroyed in raids by the Danes 1006;
dissolved; granted to Sir Francis Englefield;
probable slight remains incorporated into medieval parish church
Cholsey Grange
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51.670222°N 1.28061°W
Clanfield Preceptory Knights Hospitaller
founded before 1279;
united to Quenington before 1433
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51.7160019°N 1.596086°W
Clanfield Cell Sisters of the Order of St John of Jerusalem
cell
foundation unknown
dissolved c.1180: transferred to Buckland
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Clattercote Priory Gilbertine canons
hospital founded 1148-66, possibly by Robert de Chesney;
hospital ceased before 1262;
priory, refounded 1251-62;
dissolved 1538(?); granted to Thomas Lee c.1559;
site now occupied by a private house
St Leonard
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52.1392303°N 1.3321674°W
Cogges Priory Benedictine monks
alien house, dependent on Fécamp;
founded 1103 by Manasses Arsic;
dissolved 1414; granted to Eton College
St Mary
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51.784356°N 1.4777523°W
Cold Norton Priory Augustinian Canons Regular
hospital of St George and church of St John the Evangelist
founded 1148-58 by Avelina de Norton;
dissolved 1507: no canons remaining;
granted to St Stephen's, Westminster
The Priory Church of Saint John the Evangelist, Cold Norton
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51.9503837°N 1.5125111°W
Coxwell Grange # Cistercian Monks
probably grange with chapel;
founded 1205 (1204);
dependent on Beaulieu;
Court House Farm built on site 16thC (NT
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51.6440191°N 1.6125548°W
Dorchester Abbey
Dorchester Abbey
Dorchester Abbey is a Church of England parish church in Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire, about southeast of Oxford. It was formerly a Norman abbey church and was built on the site of a Saxon cathedral.-History:...

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secular cathedral
634-663, after 869-1072;
secular canons
founded 1072: built on site of episcopal diocesan cathedral;
Augustinian Canons
founded c.1140 by Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln;
dissolved 1536; granted to Edmond Ashfield 1544/5;
restored by James Cranston
James Cranston
James Cranston was an amateur cricketer who was educated at Taunton College in Somerset and went on to play 103 first-class cricket matches for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club between 1876 and 1899...

 c.1845,
William Butterfield
William Butterfield
William Butterfield was a Gothic Revival architect and associated with the Oxford Movement . He is noted for his use of polychromy-Biography:...

 1846-53,
and George Gilbert Scott
George Gilbert Scott
Sir George Gilbert Scott was an English architect of the Victorian Age, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches, cathedrals and workhouses...

 1859-74;
church continues in parochial use as the Parish Church of SS Peter and Paul
The Abbey Church of Saint Peter, Saint Paul
Paul of Tarsus
Paul the Apostle , also known as Saul of Tarsus, is described in the Christian New Testament as one of the most influential early Christian missionaries, with the writings ascribed to him by the church forming a considerable portion of the New Testament...

 and Saint Birinus
Birinus
Birinus , venerated as a saint, was the first Bishop of Dorchester, and the "Apostle to the West Saxons".-Life and ministry:After Augustine of Canterbury performed initial conversions in England, Birinus, a Frank, came to the kingdoms of Wessex in 634, landing at the port of "Hamwic", now in the...


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51.670222°N 1.28061°W
East Hendred Cell Carthusian monks
manor and chapel, dependent on Sheen, but apparently grange status, possibly without resident monks

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51.5890029°N 1.3373923°W
Eynsham Abbey
Eynsham Abbey
Eynsham Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Eynsham, Oxfordshire, in England between 1005 and 1538. King Æthelred allowed Æthelmær the Stout to found the abbey in 1005. There is some evidence that the abbey was built on the site of an earlier minster, probably founded in the 7th or 8th...

Benedictine monks
founded 1005 by Æthelmar (Ailmer), Earl of Cornwall, on the site of 9thC church;
destroyed and monks dispersed at the Norman Conquest, after 1066;
restored before 1086 by Remigius
Remigius de Fécamp
Remigius de Fécamp was a Benedictine monk who was a supporter of William the Conqueror.-Early life:...

, Bishop of Lincoln
transferred to Stow 1091;
returned c.1094-5;
dissolved December 1539; granted to Sir Edward North and William Darcey 1543/4
St Mary
also St Andrew and St Eadburgh given
Egnesham Abbey
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51.7779972°N 1.3752544°W
Faringdon Abbey Cistercian monks - from Cîteaux
founded before 2 November 1203: manor granted to Citeaux by King John;
transferred to Beaulieu
Beaulieu Abbey
Beaulieu Abbey, , was a Cistercian abbey located in Hampshire, England. It was founded in 1203-1204 by King John and peopled by 30 monks sent from the abbey of Cîteaux in France, the mother house of the Cistercian order...

 1204;
monastic cell or grange early 13thC;
probably merged with Coxford Grange;
privately leased 1351; granted to Sir Francis Englefield
Saint Mary
Farendon Priory;
Faringdon Minster
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51.6595789°N 1.5839946°W
Godstow Abbey Benedictine nuns with small community of Benedictine monks under a master attached to the nunnery
founded by Easter 1133 by Ediva (Editha), widow of Sir William Launcelene, assisted by Henry I, built on land granted by John de St John;
dissolved 17 November 1539; granted by Henry VIII to his physician, Dr George Owen before 1547
St Mary and St John the Baptist
Godeston Abbey
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51.7783939°N 1.2996778°W
Goring Priory Augustinian canonesses
founded 12thC (in the reign of Henry I) by Thomas de Druval who granted a church and land;
dissolved 1539(?); granted to Charles, Duke of Suffolk c.1531;
later granted to Sir Thomas Pope;
part of conventual church in parochial use
The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Goring
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51.5221557°N 1.1401105°W
Gosford Preceptory Knights Hospitaller
foundation unknown, land granted by Robert d'Oilly;
dissolved c.1180(?);
hospitallers' oratory/chapel built c.1234;
united to Quenington before 1433;
granted to Antony Stringer and John Williams 1542/3
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Gosford Cell Sisters of the Order of St John of Jerusalem
cell
foundation unknown
dissolved c.1180: transferred to Buckland
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Helenstowe Nunnery
Helenstowe Nunnery
Helenstowe Nunnery was an Anglo-Saxon nunnery at Abingdon in the English county of Berkshire .Helenstowe is said to have been founded by a certain Lady Cilla in the 670s. It was probably the nuns' part of a double monastery along with her brother’s abbey on Boar's Hill. It is believed to have stood...

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Abingdon
nuns
founded c.675;
site now occupied by St Helen's Church
The Church of the Holy Cross and Saint Helen, Helenstowe
Helenstowe Nunnery
Helenstowe Nunnery was an Anglo-Saxon nunnery at Abingdon in the English county of Berkshire .Helenstowe is said to have been founded by a certain Lady Cilla in the 670s. It was probably the nuns' part of a double monastery along with her brother’s abbey on Boar's Hill. It is believed to have stood...


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Littlemore Priory Benedictine nuns
founded before 1154 by Robert de Sandford;
dissolved 1525, suppressed for Wolsey's college; granted to William Owen and John Bridges c.1539
St Mary, St Nicholas and St Edmund
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51.7162611°N 1.211755°W
Merton Preceptory Knights Templar
founded c.1156, granted by Simon, Earl of Northampton;
dissolved c.1240(?), became a limb of Sandford
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Milton Cell Benedictine monks
purported cell, dependent on Abingdon - evidence lacking
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Minchery Priory Benedictine nuns
site now occupied by Minchery Farm, also called 'The Priory and...?....'
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Minster Lovell Priory Benedictine monks
alien cell, dependent on Ivry;
founded c.1200-6, St Kenelm's Church granted to Ivry 1200;
dissolved 1414 (1415);
granted to Eton College 1441
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51.7967259°N 1.5373564°W
Oseney Abbey Augustinian Canons Regular
priory
founded 1129 by Robert d'Oilly (son of the Lord of Oxford) and his wife Edith;
raised to abbey status c.1154;
mitred abbey 1481;
dissolved 17 November 1539;
episcopal diocesan cathedral 1542-1546;
(see removed to Christ Church, Oxford);
fell into decay and demolished
St Mary
Oseney Priory;
Aseney Priory
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51.7493616°N 1.2713201°W
Otley Abbey Cistercian monks
dependent on Waverley;
founded 22 July 1137: land granted by Robert Gait;
abandoned, transferred to Thame, infra, c.1141;
Oddington Grange probably established on site (though possibly deserted village rather than monastic)
Ottley Abbey;
Ottelei Abbey
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51.8453827°N 1.2131658°W (poss)
Oxford Austin Friars # Austin Friars (under the Limit of Oxford)
founded 1266-7; Henry III regarded as founder 1268;
impoverished and ruinous at dissolved July 1538;
Oxford Wadham College founded 1612 by Nicholas Wadham
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51.7558141°N 1.254319°W
Oxford Blackfriars — St Aldate's Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Oxford)
founded 1221;
transferred to new site (see immediately below) 1245
oratory: St Mary
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Oxford Blackfriars — St Ebbe's Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Oxford)
transferred from St Aldate's (see immediately above) 1245;
dissolved 1538
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Oxford Cathedral Priory + Augustinian canonesses
founded c.727 by Didanus, petty king;
destroyed 1002 in raids by the Danes; rebuilt;
secular canons 1004;
Augustinian Canons Regular - from Holy Trinity, London
refounded 1122
dissolved April 1524, suppressed for Cardinal Wolsey's college;
conventual church now in use as episcopal diocesan cathedral and college chapel
The Priory Church of St Frideswide, Oxford
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51.7501221°N 1.2546301°W
Oxford - Canterbury College
Canterbury College, Oxford
Canterbury College, Oxford was a University of Oxford college owned and run by Christ Church Priory, Canterbury. The Priory first sent 4 monks to study in Oxford in 1311, in a hall it had bought there near the church of St. Peter-in-the-East, but the actual college was founded in 1362 by Simon...

Benedictine monks
dependent on Canterbury Cathedral;
founded 1331 (1349) by Simon de Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury; lapsed;
refounded 1363-70 by Archbishop Islip;
secular 1365;
consituted as a monastic college c.1368-70;
dissolved c.1539;
made part of Christ Church College, Oxford 1546/7;
rebuilt 1773
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51.7509856°N 1.2544906°W
Oxford Crutched Friars Crutched Friars
founded 1342: licence granted to Crutched Friars of London 29 July 1342 to acquire land in Oxford;
dwelling-place apparently moved a number of times;
Bishop forbade completion of church began 1349;
dissolved before 1362;
property disposed of 1362
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51.7503878°N 1.2626445°W
Oxford — Durham College Benedictine monks
priory cell, dependent on Durham;
founded 1286-91, land purchased by Durham 1286, completed 1291;
dissolved 1540;
Trinity College
Trinity College, Oxford
The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford, of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope , or Trinity College for short, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It stands on Broad Street, next door to Balliol College and Blackwells bookshop,...

 founded on site 1554-5 by Sir Thomas Pope and his wife Elizabeth
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51.7553791°N 1.2572855°W
Oxford Friars of the Sack Friars of the Sack
founded 1261-2;
ruinous parish church of St Budoc acquired by the friars, becoming the conventual church;
granted to Franciscan Friars c.1309
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51.7510255°N 1.2613034°W
Oxford - Gloucester College
Worcester College, Oxford
Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in the eighteenth century, but its predecessor on the same site had been an institution of learning since the late thirteenth century...

Benedictine monks
priory cell, dependent on Gloucester;
founded 1283, house granted by John Giffard;
college founded 1291;
dissolved 1538;
Worcester College founded 1714 under the will of Sir Thomas Cookes
Glocester College;
Glocester Hall
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51.7549408°N 1.2638381°W
Oxford Greyfriars, earlier site Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Oxford)
friars from Canterbury moved to Oxford via London, residing with the Dominicans for eight days in autumn 1224, then hired a house at St Ebbe's before transferred to new site (see immediately below) 1244-5
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Oxford Greyfriars Franciscan Friars Minor (under the Custody of Oxford)
/>founded 1244-5: house and land granted to the townsmen for the friars' use by Richard the Miller; transferred from earlier site (see immediately above);
dissolved1538
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51.7505738°N 1.2624514°W
Oxford — London College purportedly Benedictine monks and secular college (in fact secular only)
founded after 1421
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Oxford - St. Albans Hall Benedictine monks
founded c.1140;
part of Oxford — Gloucester College, supra;
now part of Merton College
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Oxford, St Bernard's College Cistercian monks
abbey, founded 1437 (1436) by Henry Chichele
Henry Chichele
Henry Chichele , English archbishop, founder of All Souls College, Oxford, was born at Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, in 1363 or 1364...

, Archbishop of Canterbury, who granted land;
dissolved c.1542;
refounded as St John's College in the reign of Mary
St Mary and St Bernard
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Oxford, St Mary's College Augustinian Canons Regular
priory, founded 1435 by Thomas Holden and his wife Elizabeth;
dissolved 1540
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Oxford Trinitarian Priory, earlier site Trinitarians
founded before 1286:
granted by Edmund, Earl of Cornwall 1293;
transferred to new site (see immediately below) c.1313
The Holy Trinity
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51.7519088°N 1.2478495°W
Oxford Trinitarian Priory Trinitarians
transferred to from earlier site (see immediately above) c.1313 (site acquired before 1307);
known as 'Trinity Hall' from late 15thC, apparently dependent on Moatenden;
dissolved 1538
The Holy Trinity
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51.7525498°N 1.249271°W
Oxford Whitefriars, earlier site Camelite Friars
founded 1256: site granted by Nicholas de Meules (de Molis);
transferred to new site (see immediately below) 1317-18; incorporated into the Benedictines' college, Oxford — Gloucester College, supra, until the Dissolution 1538
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51.7544426°N 1.2640017°W
Oxford Whitefriars Camelite Friars
transferred from earlier site (see immediately above) 1317-18 by Edward II to his manor, 'the Palace of Beaumont', together with the friars at Sheen;
dissolved 1538; demolished 16thC
The King's Hall;
the Palace of Beaumont
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51.7550603°N 1.2620974°W
Pheleley Priory
Pheleley Priory
Pheleley Priory was a small 12th century priory located in a detached part of Bloxham, near Charlbury, in the English county of Oxfordshire.It was a cell of Eynsham Abbey that developed from a hermitage. It never had a priory church and only ever housed a few monks. It merged with Eynsham in 1145....

Benedictine monks
founded after 1100 (in the reign of Henry I);
apparently connected with Tewkesbury, but assigned by Tewkesbury as a cell to Eynsham;
annexed to /transferred to Eynsham after c.1145
Phelely Priory
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51.8781336°N 1.4319563°W (poss)
Rewley Abbey
Rewley Abbey
The Cistercian Abbey of Rewley was an Abbey in Oxford, England. It was founded in the 13th century by Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall. Edmund's father, Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, founder of Hayles Abbey, had intended to establish a college or chantry of three secular priests to pray for his...

intended as a secular establishment by King Richard
Cistercian monks
dependent on Thame;
founded 11 December 1143 by Edmund, Earl of Cornwall;
dissolved c.1536; granted to the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford 1546/7
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51.7543746°N 1.2680545°W
Sandford Preceptory Knights Templar
founded c.1240: lands granted to Temple Cowley by Thomas the younger, of Sandford;
transferred from Temple Cowley;
dissolved 1308-12;
Knights Hospitaller
transferred after 1312;
dissolved 1371: incorporated into the camerae of the prior of England;
becoming a farmhouse;
granted to Edward Powell 1541/2
remnants now in use as part of a Four Pillars Hotel
Sandford-on-Thames Preceptory;
Saunford Hospital
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51.7128577°N 1.23137°W
Sibford Camera Knights Templar
founded before(?)1185;
dissolved 1312
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52.0303105°N 1.4912868°W
Steventon Priory
Steventon Priory
Priory Cottages is a 14th-century manor house and former monastic grange which had the status of a priory at Steventon in the English county of Oxfordshire ....

Benedictine monks
alien house, daughter of St-Mary-du-Pré, Rouen and Bec-Hellouin
Bec Abbey
Bec Abbey in Le Bec Hellouin, Normandy, France, once the most influential abbey in the Anglo-Norman kingdom of the twelfth century, is a Benedictine monastic foundation in the Eure département, in the Bec valley midway between the cities of Rouen and Bernay.Like all abbeys, Bec maintained annals...

, Normandy
founded 12thC (in the reign of Henry I) manor granted to St Mary de Prato (called Bonne-Nouvelle), Rouen, a dependent on of Bec-Hellouin;
farmed out 1378;
dissolved 1389; granted to Westminster Abbey by Richard II;
officially a priory but actually a grange
no monastic church
prior's house now in private ownership with public access by appointment (NT
National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty
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Stenington Priory
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51.6188959°N 1.3282299°W
Studley Priory
Studley Priory, Oxfordshire
Studley Priory was a small house of Benedictine nuns ruled by a prioress, founded before 1176 in the hamlet of Studley, in what is now the village of Horton-cum-Studley, seven miles north-east of Oxford, and in the County of Oxfordshire. In that year it received a grant from Bernard of St. Walery...

Benedictine nuns
founded 12thC by Bernard of Walery (de St Walerico);
dissolved 1536 (apparently suppressed) - 19 November 1539 (surrendered); granted to John Croke 1539/40;
converted into an Elizabethan manor house;
now in use as the Studley Priory Hotel
St Mary
Stodeley Priory
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Temple Cowley Preceptory Knights Templar
founded 1136 by Queen Matilda
transferred to Temple Cowley c.1240 and thereafted reduced to status of camera
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51.7320718°N 1.2048429°W
Thame Abbey
Thame Abbey
Thame Abbey was a Cistercian abbey at Thame in the English county of Oxfordshire.Thame Abbey was founded in 1137 by Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln. It was dissolved in 1539. Most of the building stone was removed from the site, but the Abbot's House remained standing and was turned into a country...

Cistercian monks
transferred from Otley, supra
dependent on Waverley;
(founded at Otley 22 July 1137);
transferred here c.1140: site granted by Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln;
dissolved 1539; granted to Edward, Duke of Somerset c.1547;
remains incorporated into 18thC country house
Tame Abbey
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51.7275°N 0.9635246°W
Wallingford Priory
Wallingford Priory
Wallingford Priory was a Benedictine priory dedicated to the Holy Trinity in Wallingford in the English county of Berkshire .Nothing remains of Holy Trinity Priory, which is believed to have stood on the site of the Bullcroft recreation ground off the High Street...

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Benedictine monks
cell of St Albans Abbey
founded 1097 or 1088 (1077-93) by Robert D'Oyley or Gilfrid, Abbot of St Alban;
dissolved 1525(-8) by Cardinal Wolsey to fund Ipswich College;
granted to John Norres c.1546;
The Priory Church of the Holy Trinity, Wallingford
Wallingford Cell;
Waring Cell
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51.6013696°N 1.1264151°W
Wroxton Abbey
Wroxton Abbey
Wroxton Abbey is a Jacobean house in Oxfordshire, with a 1727 garden partly converted to the serpentine style between 1731 and 1751. It is west of Banbury, off the A422, in Wroxton St. Mary. It is now the English campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University....

Augustinian Canons Regular
founded c.1217 by Magister Michael Belet
dissolved c.1537 (1536); granted to Sir Thomas Pope who gave part to Trinity College, Oxford;
scant remains incorporated into mansion called 'Wroxton Abbey' built on site 1618
The Priory Church of St Mary, Wroxton
Wroxton
Wroxton is a village and civil parish in the north of Oxfordshire about west of Banbury.-History:Wroxton is recorded as having a church in 1217, but the present Church of England parish church of All Saints is early 14th century. A Perpendicular Gothic clerestory and porch were added early in the...


Wroxton Priory
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52.0713589°N 1.3936463°W
Westcot Camera Knights Templar
founded 13thC (in the reign of Henry III): holdings granted by Robert Achard;
dissolved 1308-12;
Knights Hospitaller
transferred 1308-12
Westcott Camera
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51.5811232°N 1.5106201°W
Wytham Abbey # nuns - from Helenstow, supra, purportedly transferred here after 700;
dispersed to other houses during hostilities c.780;

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51.7688026°N 1.3347879°W

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