List of monastic houses in Suffolk

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

FoundationImageCommunities & provenanceFormal name or dedication and alternative names !width = 10%|References and locationAlnesbourne PrioryAugustinian Canons Regularfounded c.1200, probably by Alberte de Neville, who granted endowments;appropriated to Woodbridge probably c.1466;dissolved before 1514; granted to Sir John Wingfield 1541/2The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Alnesbourne____________________Alnesbourn Priory;Alnesborn Priory;Alensborne Priory |British History Online — Houses of Austin canons: Priory of Alnesbourn — A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2, 1975. Victoria County History (p.91)Babwell GreyfriarsFranciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Cambridge)transferred from earlier foundation at Bury St Edmunds;founded 19 November 1262;dissolved December 1538, surrendered to Richard Yngworth, Bishop of Dover; granted to Anthony Harvey May 1541|British History Online — Franciscan friars: Bury St Edmunds — A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2, 1975. Victoria County History (pp.124-125)Battisford PreceptoryKnights Hospitallerpreceptory/hospitalfounded c.1154, benefactions from Henry II; dissolved 1540|British History Online — House of Knights Hospitaller — Preceptory of Battisford — A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2, 1975. Victoria County History (pp.120-121)Blakenham PrioryBenedictine monksalien house: dependent on Bec-Hellouin Abbey;manor granted to Bec-Hellouin by Walter Giffard, 'Earl of Buckingham'founded before 1092;dissolved before 1230, apparently reduced to grange; transferred as a parcel to Ogbourne St George; granted to Eton College 1460Great Blakenham Priory |British History Online — Alien houses: Priory of Blakenham — A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2, 1975. Victoria County History (pp.152-153)Blythburgh BlackfriarsDominican Friarslicence obtained 1384 to move from Dunwich, when that location was threatened by the sea but transfer never implemented|Blythburgh PrioryAugustinian Canons Regular — from St. Osyth's Abbey, Essexependent on St Osyth; founded before 1135, assisted by Henry I and the Clavering family; dissolved 12 February 1537 and granted to Sir Arthur Hopton 1538/9The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Blythburgh____________________Bliburgh Priory |British History Online — Houses of Austin canons: Priory of Blythburgh — A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2, 1975. Victoria County History (pp.91-94)Bruisyard Abbeysecular college(community founded at Campsey Ash 1347);transferred here 1354;dissolved 4 October 1366;Franciscan nuns — from Waterbeach, Cambridgeshirefounded 1364-7 by Lionel, Duke of Clarence;dissolved 1359; granted to Nicholas Hare 1539Brusyard Priory |British History Online — House of minoresses — Abbey of Bruisyard — A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2, 1975. Victoria County History (pp.131-132)Bungay Priory +Benedictine nunsfounded 1183 by Roger de Glanvill and his wife, Countess Gundred;dissolved 1336; nuns appear to have abandoned the house before April 1536; granted to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk 1537/8;most of conventual buildings destroyed by fire 1688;rebuilt 1699; reopened 1701 for parochial use as the Parish Church of St MaryThe Priory Church of Saint Mary and the Holy Cross, Bungay |British History Online — Houses of Benedictine nuns: Priory of Bungay — A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2, 1975. Victoria County History: (pp.81-83)Bury St Edmunds AbbeySaxon (Benedictine?) monksfounded 633 by Sigeberht, King of the East Angles; destroyed in raids by the Danes c.870secular (collegiate)founded 903;refounded c.925, endowed by King Athelstan;Benedictine monksfounded 1020-2; dissolved 4 November 1539; granted to John Eyre 1559/60;subsequently granted to Thomas Badyby;abbot's palace in use as a house until 1720; other buildings incorporated into houses 17th and 19th century: extant; remains now within a public park; (EH)episcopal diocesan Bury St Edmunds Cathedral in precinct The Abbey Church of Saint Edmund, (Bury Saint Edmunds) Beordicsworth Abbey;Bury St Edmond Abbey |British History Online — Houses of Benedictine monks: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds — A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2, 1975. Victoria County History: (pp.56–72)Bury St Edmunds Greyfriars, earlier siteFranciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Cambridge)foundation attempted 1233, but discouraged by the legate and monks of the Abbey;founded shortly after 22 June 1257: bull obtained from the Pope to establish their community;expelled by Abbey officials;re-established at a new site (see immediately below)|Bury St Edmunds GreyfriarsFranciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Cambridge)(previous, unsuccessful foundation at earlier site (see immediately above));founded 1258, with the assistance of Henry III;Pope Urban IV ordered the friars to demolish their buildings;re-established at Babwell|Butley Priory ^Augustinian Canons Regularfounded 1171 by Sir Ranulph de Glanvill;dissolved 1 March 1538;remains incorporated into later buildingsThe Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, ButleyButleigh Priory |British History Online — Houses of Austin canons — Priory of Butley — A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2, 1975. Victoria County History: (pp.95-99)Campsey Ash PrioryAugustinian Canonessesfounded c.1195 by Theobald de Valoines, who granted land to his sisters Joan (subsequently the first prioress) and Agnes;(also given as Benedictine);dissolved 1536; granted to Sir William Willoughby 1543/4;post-medieval house and barn occupy siteThe Priory Church of Saint Mary, Campsey AshThe Blessed Virgin MaryCampsey Priory;Campess Priory |British History Online — British History Online — Houses of Austin nuns: Priory of Campsey — A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2, 1975. Victoria County History: (pp.112-115)Cavenham PreceptoryKnights Templar founded before 1311?;dissolved 1308-12(?)Togrynd Preceptory;Caveham PreceptoryCoddenham Preceptory |Chipley Priory #Augustinian Canons Regularfounded before 1291 (before 1235);dissolved 1468; annexed to the college of Stoke by Clare 1468;farmhouse occupies site, incorporating part of the west range of the monastic buildings, though no remains identifiably as early as 13th centuryThe Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Chipley |British History Online — British History Online — Houses of Austin canons: Priory of Chipley — A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2, 1975. Victoria County History: (p.99)Clare Friary *Augustinian Friars (under the Limit of Cambridge)founded 1248/9 by Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hereford;cell dependent on Bec-Hellouin;reconstituted 1326 by Edward II as a cell dependent on Westminster, Middlesex;refounded as a college 1490 by Edmund, Earl of Marchdissolved 1538; granted to Richard Friend 1539/40;Augustinian Friars — from Irelandrefounded 1953; extant;former infirmary/barn in use as friars' chapelThe Priory Church of Our Lady, Saint Peter and Saint Paul and Saint Augustine, Clare____________________Clare Priory |British History Online — British History Online — Austin friaries: Clare — A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2, 1975. Victoria County History: (pp.127-129)Clare Priorysecular collegiate founded c.1045Benedictine monksalien house: dependent on Bec-Hellouin;founded 1090: collegiate church of St John the Baptist granted to Bec by Gilbert de Clare;transferred to new site at Stoke by Clare|Coddenham CameraKnights Hospitallera member of Battisford|Coddenham PrioryEustace de Merch originally intended to found a house of Cistercian nuns from Nun Appleton during the reign of Henry II;Augustinian Canons Regulardependent on Royston, Hertfordshire;founded before 1184 by Eustace de Merch, who granted the church to Royston;dissolved 1537Covenham Priory |Creeting St Mary PrioryBenedictine monksalien house: (probable) grange dependent on Bernay;founded before 1156;supervised by a prior from 1327;dissolved before 1414; granted to Eton College 1462|British History Online — British History Online — Alien houses: Priory of Creeting St Mary — A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2, 1975. Victoria County History: (p.153)Creeting St Olave PrioryBenedictine monksalien house: cell or grange, under supervision of a prior, dependent on Grestein;founded before 1087; monks have been suggested to have used the parish church of St Olave #;dissolved 1360; sold privately|British History Online — Alien houses: Priory of Creeting St Olave — A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2, 1975. Victoria County History: (pp.153-154)Dodnash Priory #Augustinian Canons Regularfounded c.1188 by Baldwin de Toeni and his mother Alda;dissolved 1525, suppressed for Cardinal Wolsey's colleges at Oxford and Ipswich; granted to Thomas Alverde;in use as a farmhouse 19th century;some of the re-used masonry incorporated into the buildings of Dodnash Priory Farm The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Dodnash |British History Online — Houses of Austin canons: Priory of Dodnash — A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2, 1975. Victoria County History: (pp.99-100)Dunwich BlackfriarsDominican Friars (under the Visitation of Cambridge)founded before 1256 by Sir Roger de Holish;licence granted 1384 to move to Blythburgh due to threat of incursion by the sea;dissolved 1538; granted to John Eyre 1544/5;destroyed by coastal erosion and submerged by the sea|British History Online — Dominican friaries: Dunwich — Victoria County History: A History of the County ouf Suffolk: Volume 2 (pp.121-122)Dunwich, Greyfriars, earlier siteFranciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Cambridge)founded before 1277 (?before 1272: during the reign of Henry III) by Robert Fitz John;transferred to new site (see immediately below) 1290, due to coastal erosion|British History Online — Franciscan friars - Dunwich — A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2, 1975. Victoria County History: (pp.125-126)Dunwich GreyfriarsFranciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Cambridge)(community founded at earlier site (see immediately above) before 1277 (?before 1272));transferred here due to coastal erosion 1290;dissolved 1538; surrendered to Ingworth, Bishop of Dover; granted to John Eyre|Dunwich PreceptoryKnights Templarfounded before 1199;dissolved 1308-12passed to Knights Hospitaller, who maintained a chaplain but no preceptory here;destroyed by coastal erosion and submerged by the sea|British History Online — House of Knights Templar — Dunwich — A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2, 1975. Victoria County History: (p.120)Dunwich PrioryBenedictine monksalien house: dependent on Eye (itself dependent on Bernay);founded after 1080, church granted to Eye by William the Conqueror;submerged by the sea between 1272 and 1307 (in/about the reign of Edward I)St Felix? |British History Online — Houses of Benedictine monks: Priory of Dunwich — A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2, 1975. Victoria County History: (p.76)East Bergholt Abbey *Benedictine nunsland purchased 1857; extantThe Abbey Church of Saint Mary, East Bergholt |Edwardstone Priory #Benedictine monksPriory cell dependent on Abingdon, Berkshire (Oxfordshire)founded 1114, church granted to Abingdon by Hubert de Monchesney, confirmed 1115;dissolved c.1160: community transferred to Earl's Colne by Abbot WalkelinThe Blessed Virgin Mary |British History Online — Houses of Benedictine monks: Priory of Edwardstone — A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2, 1975. Victoria County History: (p.76)Eye PrioryBenedictine monksalien house: dependent on Bernay;founded c.1080 by Robert Malet;became denizen: independent, refounded c.1385;dissolved October 1534/1537 The Priory Church of Saint Peter, Eye