List of monastic houses in Norfolk

The following is a list of monastic houses in Norfolk, England. __TOC__

List FoundationImageCommunities and provenanceFormal name or dedication and alternative names References and locationAldeby Priory ^(+) Benedictine monksdependent on Norwich; founded c.1100-1119 (during the reign of Henry I) by Herbert de Losinga, Bishop of Norwich; lack of evidence for a conventual church infers that the monks officiated at the parochial church of St Mary which was granted to the priory; granted to the Dean and Prebendary of Norwich The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Aldeby PrioryAldeby norfolkchurches.co.ukBeeston Regis PrioryAugustinian Canons Regularfounded c.1216 (about the end of the reign of King John) by Lady Margery de Cressy;Carmelite Friarsrefounded 1400; dissolved 1539; granted to Sir Edmond Windham and Giles Seafoule 1545/6 The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Beeston Regis____________________Beeston PrioryBinham Priory +Benedictine monkspriory cell dependent on St Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire;founded c.1091 (before 1093) by Peter de Valoines, manor granted by William the Conqueror; dissolved 1539; granted to Sir Thomas Paston; demolition ensued but the plan to build a mansion was abandoned; nave of conventual church in parochial use as the Priory Church of St Mary and the Holy Cross. Owned by Norfolk Archaeological Trust and English HeritageThe Priory Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Binham PrioryThe Priory Church of St Peter and St Paul, Binham?Church Of St Mary pastscape.org.ukBlackborough Priory ^Benedictine monksfounded c.1150 by Roger de Scales and his wife Muriel;Benedictine monks and nunsgranted extended for use as a double house by Robert de Scales, son of the founders c.1170(?);Benedictine nuns alone 1200; dissolved 1537; granted to the Bishop of Norwich 1550/1; remains incorporated into a private houseThe Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Catherine, BlackboroughPastscape — Detailed Result: BLACKBOROUGH PRIORYBlakeney Friary Carmelite Friarsland granted 1295/6 by Richard Stomer and others with the consent of their lord Sir William Roos; founded 1304-16;buildings completed 1321; dissolved 1538; granted to William Rede 1541/2; granted to Lady Anne Calthorpe; passed to the local Pepys family; remains incorporated into Friarage FarmhouseSnitterley Whitefriars;Sniterley Whitefriars BlakeneyPastscape — Detailed Result: BLAKENEY WHITEFRIARSBradmer FriaryCarmelite Friarsfounded c.1241 (1242-7) by Ralph Hempnale (Hemenhale) and Sir William de Calthrop;transferred to new site at Burnham Norton c.1253|Pastscape — Detailed Result: BURNHAM NORTON WHITEFRIARSBromehill PrioryAugustinian Canons Regularfounded before 1224 by Sir Hugh de Plaiz; dissolved 14 May 1528 for Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's college at Ipswich; priory demolished; granted to the Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge by Edward VIThe Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Thomas the Martyr, Bromehill |Pastscape — Detailed Result: BROMEHILL PRIORYBromholm PrioryCluniac monksalien house: dependent on Castle Acre Priory;founded 1113 by William de Glanville;direct Cluniac rule c.1195;became denizen: independent from 1390; dissolved 1536; granted to Thomas Woodhouse 1545/6 The Priory Church of St Andrew, Bromholm____________________Broomholm Priory |Pastscape — Detailed Result: BROOMHOLM PRIORYHouses of Cluniac monks: The priory of Bromholm — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 (pp.359-363)Burnham Norton FriaryCarmelite Friars(community founded at Bradmer c.1241 (1242-7)); transferred from Bradmer 1253 (1252); dissolved 1538; granted to William, Lord Cobham 1541/2|ST MARYS FRIARY GATEHOUSE PastScapeCarbrooke Preceptorypossibly Knights Templarpossibly founded before 1173 by granted by the husband of Maud, Countess of Clare, with preceptory unfinished;Knights Hospitallerfounded c.1182: Maud, Countess of Clare granted churches of St Peter, Great Carbrook and St John the Baptist, Little Carbrook and manor of Carbrook; dissolved 1540; granted to Sir Richard Gresham and Sir Richard Southwell 1543/4 Carbroke Preceptory Pastscape — Detailed Result: CARBROOKE HOSPITALLERS PRECEPTORYHouse of Knights Hospitallers: The preceptory of Carbrooke — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 (pp.423-425)Carbrook CellSisters of the Order of St John of Jerusalem cellfounded unknown, transferred to Buckland c.1180Carrow PrioryBenedictine nuns(community founded at Norwich between 1100 and 1135); transferred here 1146, founded by two sisters of the earlier site which was granted land by King Stephen; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir John Shelton 1538; prioress's house incorporated into later residence; remains situated within the grounds of Reckitt & Colman's worksThe Priory Church of Saint Mary of Carhowe |Pastscape — Detailed Result: ST MARY OF CARROW PRIORYHouses of Benedictine nuns: The priory of Carrow — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 (pp.351-354)Carrow Abbey — Norwich — Norfolk — England | British Listed BuildingsCastle Acre PrioryCluniac monksalien house: dependent on Lewes, Sussex;founded 1089 (or before 1085) by William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey;became denizen: independent from sometime between 1351 and 1374; dissolved 22 November 1537; granted to Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk 1537/8;priors lodgings retained as a residence; passed into ownership of Sir Edward Coke, and remains in that family;in guardianship of Ministry of Works 1929; (EH)The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Castle AcrePriory Church of Saint Mary, Saint Peter and Saint Paul____________________Castleacre PrioryPastscape — Detailed Result: Castle Acre PrioryBritish History Online — Houses of Cluniac monks: The priory of Castle Acre — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 (pp.356-358)Choseley MonasteryLazaritesfounded before 1273 (before the reign of Edward I) by the Earl of Gifford;dissolved 1544/5; granted Sir John Dudley, Viscount LisleCoxford PrioryAugustinian Canons Regular(community founded at the church of St Mary, Rudham (East) c.1140);transferred to new site c.1216 (early in the reign of Henry III); dissolved 22 January 1536; granted to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk 1537Cokesford Priory |Pastscape — Detailed Result: ST MARYS CHURCHBritish History Online — Houses of Austin canons: The priory of Coxford — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 (pp.378-380)Crabhouse PrioryAugustinian Canonessesfounded c.1181 by Roger, prior, and canons of Ranham (Norman's Burrow) with the consent of their founder William de Lesewis (Leseurs) for the anchoress Lena;flooded and temporarily abandoned c.1200; church and many buildings partly rebuilt 1402-4; rebuilt 1420-4; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir John Gage;house named 'Crabb's Abbey' built on siteThe Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint John the EvangelistSt Mary, St John and St Thomas |Pastscape — Detailed Result: CRABHOUSE PRIORYBritish History Online — House of Austin nuns: The priory of Crabhouse — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 (pp.408-410)Creake Abbeychapelhospitalfounded before 1189 (during the reign of Henry II) by Lady Alice de Nerford and her husband Sir Robert who used the chapel to found a hospital;Augustinian Canons Regularfounded 1206, the master becoming a canon, changing the hospital to a priory with the consent of the widowed Alice;hospital dedicated to St Bartholomew after(?)1217;raised to abbey status 1231 by Henry III;canons wiped out by plague 1506, abbot survived to 12 December 1506;passed to the Crown 1506; (EH)The Priory Church of Saint Mary de Pratis____________________North Creake Abbey;Creek AbbeyPastscape — Detailed Result: CREAKE ABBEYBritish History Online — Houses of Austin canons: The abbey of Creake — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 (pp.370-372)Custhorpe Cell(?)Augustinian Canons Regularcell(?)Custhorpe — given as a cell by F. A. Gasquet, English Monastic Life, (1924), p.313, possibly citing M. E. C. Walcott, English Minsters (1879), Volume 2, p.106 dependent on West Acre; possibly a chapel intermittently served by a canonPastscape — Detailed Result: ST THOMAS A BECKETS CHAPELDocking PrioryBenedictine monksalien house: cell or grange dependent on Ivry-la-Bataille;founded 12th century;dissolved 1455;granted as a 'priory' to Eton College 1436?Docking — granted to Eton in 1436: Dugdale, (1486) Monasticon Anglicanum vi:Pastscape — Detailed Result: MONUMENT NO. 357474British History Online — Alien houses: The priory of Docking — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 (p.462)East Dereham MonasterySaxon nunsnunnery and probable minster founded before 743 by St Withburga;?destroyed in raids by the Danes c.870; sole remains are a holy well, reputedly associated with the monastery|St Withburgas Nunnery and Holy Well PastscapeField Dalling GrangeSavignac monksalien housefounded 1138 by Maud de Harscolye: James de Sancto Hylario granted land to the abbey of the Holy Trinity, Savigny;Cistercian monksorders merged 17 September 1147;(referred to as a priory cell, but believed to be a grange); dissolved 1414; granted by the Crown to Epworth Priory; granted to the Spittle-on-the-Street, Lincolnshire;granted to the Carthusians of St. Anne's Priory, Coventry, Warwickshire (West Midlands);granted to the Carthusian priory of Mount Grace 1462; granted to Martyng Hastings and James BorneDallingfield Priory;Field-Dalling Priory;Fieldallyng Priory |Pastscape — Detailed Result: FIELD DALLING GRANGEBritish History Online — Alien houses: The priory of Dallingfield — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 (pp.462-463)Flitcham PrioryAugustinian Canons Regularfounded c.1217 (early in the reign of Henry III) by Sir Robert Aguillon (granted to Dametta de Flitcham); in decay by 1528; dissolved 1538; granted to Edward Lord Clinton 1538/9;house built on site 16th centurySt Mary ad Fontes |Pastscape — Detailed Result: FLITCHAM PRIORYBritish History Online — Houses of Austin canons: The priory of Flitcham — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 (pp.380-381)Gorleston FriaryAugustinian Friars (under the Limit of Cambridge)founded before 1267; William Woderove given as founder 14th century; dissolved 1538, surrendered to Richard Ingworth, Bishop of Dover|Great Massingham PrioryAugustinian Canons Regularfounded before/c.1260 probably by Nicholas le (/de) Syre (originally termed a hospital, with a prior as master);dilapidated 1475-6;refounded as a cell of West Acre;dissolved 1538; granted to Sir Thomas GreshamSt Mary and St Nicholas____________________Massingham Magna |Pastscape — Detailed Result: GREAT MASSINGHAM PRIORYBritish History Online — Houses of Austin canons: The priory of Great Massingham — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 (pp.386-387)Great Witchingham GrangeCluniac monksalien house: dependent on Longueville;founded after 1093: manor and other endowments granted by Walter Giffard, 1st Earl of Buckingham;possibly directly supervised by monks from time-to-timedissolved after 1414|Great Yarmouth — St Nicholas's PrioryBenedictine monkscell dependent on Norwich;founded 1101 by Herbert de Losinga, Bishop of Norwich;Church of St Nicholas was associated with the priory;dissolved 1539;granted to Norwich Cathedral;restored 1835;destroyed by bombing in World War II; restored, currently in parochial use as the Parish Church of St Nicholas;the conventual Great Hall currently in use as Priory SchoolThe Priory Church of Saint Nicholas, Great Yarmouth;