:List of monastic houses in Wales

|+ The sites listed are ruins unless indicated thus:

|+ Trusteeship denoted as follows:

| style="font-style:italic;" | Cadw — Welsh Historic Monuments

|Caergybi Monastery

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|Celtic monks
founded 6th century (380) by St Cybi (St Kebius);
Secular canons collegiate 12th century?;
dissolved c.1547;
ecclesiastical college built on site; granted to Francis Morrice 1609

|Holyhead Monastery;
Caer Gybi Monastery

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|Llanfaes Friary

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|Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Worcester)
founded c.1237–45 by Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, Prince of Gwynedd and Wales;
dissolved 1538

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|{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ozNs0DrXPLUC&dq=Llanfaes+Franciscan&pg=RA1-PA698|title=The Cambridge Urban History of Britain|first1=D. M.|last1=Palliser|first2=Peter|last2=Clark|first3=Martin J.|last3=Daunton|date=29 September 2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521444613|via=Google Books}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=55|title=Site details: Llanfaes|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

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|Llanfechell Clas

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|Celtic monastery
founded by St Machudd (Mechell)

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|Llangaffo Clas

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|Celtic monastery
founded (at an early date) by St Caffo;
dissolved 13th century

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|Penmon Priory

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|Celtic monks
founded 6th century, reputedly by St Seiriol
destroyed in raids by the Danes;
subsequently rebuilt;
Augustinian Canons Regular
(Benedictine monks?)
re-founded 1221 by Llywelyn Fawr, Prince of Gwynedd
dissolved. c.1564; granted to John Moore

|Glannagh Priory

|{{cite web|url=https://www.britainexpress.com/wales/az/abbeys/index.htm|title=Abbeys and monasteries in Wales|first=Britain|last=Express|website=Britain Express}}{{cite web|url=http://www.castlewales.com/penmon.html|title=Penmon Priory|website=www.castlewales.com}}[http://www.walesdirectory.co.uk/Ancient_Churches/Penmon_Priory.htm Penmon Priory, St Seiriol's Holy Well, and Dovecote]
{{cite web|url=http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/95543|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210929102241/https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/95543/|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 September 2021|title=English – Coflein}}{{cite web|url=https://www.anglesey-history.co.uk/places/penmon/index.html|title=Holy Penmon|website=www.anglesey-history.co.uk}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=46|title=Site details: Penmon|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

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|Ynys Lannog Cell

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|Celtic monastery
founded 6th century by St Seiriol;
Augustinian Canons Regular
dependent on Penmon
founded 1237–1414;
dissolved 1536?

|Priestholme Cell;
Puffin Island Cell

|{{cite web|url=http://www.welshicons.org.uk/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080531180018/http://www.welshicons.org.uk/html/puffin_island.php|url-status=dead|title=Welsh Symbols|archivedate=31 May 2008|website=Welsh Icons}}{{cite web|url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/|title=English}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=47|title=Site details: Puffin Island|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

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|Ewenny Priory – St Michael (?)

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|apparent early priory founded by John Lou[n]dres;

|St Michael?

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|Ewenny Priory

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|Benedictine monks
cell dependent on Gloucester, Gloucestershire;
founded before 1141, granted to Gloucester by Maurice, of London;
dissolved 1540 (1536); granted (leased) to Sir Edward Carn, who purchased it in 1545;
(Cadw)

|St Michael
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Ogmore Priory;
Wenny Priory

|{{Cite journal |jstor = 990302|last1 = Thurlby|first1 = Malcolm|title = The Romanesque Priory Church of St. Michael at Ewenny|journal = Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians|year = 1988|volume = 47|issue = 3|pages = 281–294|doi = 10.2307/990302}}http://www.nlw.org.uk/cgi-bin/anw/search2?coll_id=1227&inst_id=33&term=Turbervill%20family {{dead link|date=February 2022|fix-attempted=yes}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=4|title=Site details: Ewenny|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

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|Cardiff Blackfriars

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|Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Oxford)
founded before 1242;
dissolved 1538

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|{{cite web |url= http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/307772/collection/BLACKFRIARS+PRIORY+(DOMINICAN),+BUTE+PARK/ |title=BLACKFRIARS PRIORY (DOMINICAN), BUTE PARK {{!}} Associated Collection Records {{!}} Coflein |access-date= 14 June 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233755/http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/307772/collection/BLACKFRIARS+PRIORY+(DOMINICAN),+BUTE+PARK/ |archive-date= 3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=59|title=Site details: Cardiff|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

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|Cardiff Greyfriars

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|Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Bristol)
founded before 1284;
dissolved 1538

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|{{cite web |url= http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/301262/collection/GREYFRIARS+PRIORY/?show=all |title= Greyfriars priory {{!}} Associated Collection Records {{!}} Coflein |access-date= 14 June 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233156/http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/301262/collection/GREYFRIARS+PRIORY/?show=all |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=53|title=Site details: Cardiff|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.4836721

|Cardiff Priory

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|Benedictine monks
dependent on Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
founded before 1106(?), parish church of St Mary granted by Robert fitz Hamon and others;
dissolved 1403

|The Blessed Virgin Mary

|{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/site/3|title=Site details: Cardiff|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

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|Cardiff Whitefriars

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|Carmelite Friars —
Cardiff Whitefriars — given by W. Dugdale, Monsticon Anglicanum, from Willis, Llandaff, p.11 considered doubtful,Cardiff Whitefriars — doubtful: Sir John E. Lloyd rejected

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|Llandaff Monastery

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|Celtic monks
founded 6th century (522) by St Dubricius;
secular collegiate
episcopal diocesan cathedral
founded 1107; restored 18th & 19th century; extant

|Llandaffe Monastery

|{{cite web | url=http://www.llandaffcathedral.org.uk/ | title=Llandaff Cathedral}}

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|Bachannis Monastery

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|purportedly founded c.513 by St Piro

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|Carmarthen Greyfriars

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|Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Bristol);
founded before 1284;
dissolved 1538; granted to Sir Thomas Gresham 1551/2;
site now occupied by Greyfriars shopping centre

|Caermarthen Friary

|{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/wales/pp180-202|title=Carmarthen - Carmarthenshire | British History Online|website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=54|title=Site details: Carmarthen|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

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|Carmarthen Clas

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|Celtic monks
founded 6th century by St Dewi;
dissolved c.1120;
Benedictine priory (later Augustinian) established on site (see immediately below)

|Llandeulyddog

|rowspan=2|{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Carmarthen|title=Carmarthen | Wales, United Kingdom|website=Encyclopedia Britannica}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M34ystsNDn8C&dq=carmarthen+augustinian+john&pg=PA261|title=Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales|first=Thomas|last=Nicholas|date=1 January 1991|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Company|isbn=9780806313146|via=Google Books}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=18|title=Site details: Carmarthen|website=www.monasticwales.org}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=43|title=Site details: Carmarthen|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

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|Carmarthen Priory

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|Benedictine monks
St Peter's church granted by Henry I on site of Celtic Clas (ecclesiastical settlement) (see immediately above);
cell of Battle, Sussex;
independent priory;
monks induced to leave 1125 in order to found an Augustinian establishment;
Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian(?)
founded before 1127 by King Henry I;
dissolved 1536; granted to Richard Andrews and Nicholas Temple 1543/4

|The Priory Church of Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Teulyddog, Carmarthen
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Caermarthen Priory

|Kidwelly Priory

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|Benedictine monks — from Sherborne, Dorset
dependent on Sherborne;
founded 1114 (c.1130), site granted by Roger, Bishop of Sarum;
dissolved 1539

|The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Kidwelly
now The Parish and Priory Church of Saint Mary, Kidwelly
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Cydweli Priory;
Cadwell Priory

|{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/wales/pp445-456|title=Kegidock - Killey | British History Online|website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}{{cite web|url=http://www.kidwellyhistory.co.uk/Articles/Priory/Priory.htm|title=Kidwelly Priory|website=www.kidwellyhistory.co.uk}}

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|Llanarthney Clas

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|Celtic monks
founded 6th century? by St Dewi;
parochial from c.1220

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|Llandeilo Monastery

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|Celtic monks
founded (in the time of St David) 6th century by St Teilo;
parochial? from c.1107

|Llandeilo Fawr Monastery

|{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fuH5Uka64MUC&dq=llandilo+monastery&pg=PA88|title=Butler's Lives of the Saints: February|first1=Alban|last1=Butler|first2=Paul|last2=Burns|date=1 January 1998|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=9780860122517|via=Google Books}}{{cite web|url=http://llandeilo.org/st_teilos.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080510151336/http://www.llandeilo.org/st_teilos.php|url-status=dead|title=St Teilo's Church — Llandeilo|archivedate=10 May 2008}}

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|Llandovery Priory

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|Benedictine monks
cell dependent on Great Malvern, Worcestershire;
founded c.1110 by the Cliffords, church granted by Richard fitz Pons before 1126;
dissolved c.1185 due to misconduct of the monks

|dedication unknown

|{{cite web |url=http://www.acadat.com/HLC/theme.htm |title=Archaeology in Wales - Ymddiriedolaeth Archaeolegol Dyfed - Dyfed Archaeological Trust |access-date=2008-05-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829180157/http://www.acadat.com/HLC/theme.htm |archive-date=29 August 2008 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=16|title=Site details: Llandovery|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

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|St Clears Priory

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|Cluniac monks
founded 1147–84 (c.1100);
dissolved c.1414;
granted to All Souls College, Oxford;
church in parochial use from 1920

|The Priory Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Saint Clears

|[http://cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk/place.asp?PlaceID=91 St. Clears] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070811131159/http://cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk/place.asp?PlaceID=91 |date=11 August 2007 }}{{cite web | url=http://www.stmarysstclears.co.uk/ |title = St Mary's Clears – Religion and spirituality}}{{cite web|url=http://llanegwad-carmarthen.co.uk/carms_st_clears-htm/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013144840/http://www.llanegwad-carmarthen.co.uk/carms_st_clears.htm|url-status=dead|title=Carms_st_clears.htm|date=3 August 2021|archivedate=13 October 2007}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=12|title=Site details: St Clears|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

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|Talley Abbey

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|Celtic monks
{{not a typo|clas}} founded before 1066;
Premonstratensian Canons
daughter house of St-Jean, Amiens, France
founded c.1184-9 (1197), credited to Lord Rhys Gruffydd Price (Rhys ap Tewdwr, Rhese Griffith Price);
dissolved c.1536(?) and retained by the Crown;
(Cadw)

|The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint John the Baptist
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Abaty Talyllychau;
Tallagh Abbey;
Tallesch;
Tallach

|{{cite web|url=http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/abbeys/talley%20abbey.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723142031/http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/abbeys/talley%20abbey.htm|url-status=dead|title=Welsh Abbeys — Talley Abbey|archivedate=23 July 2008}}{{cite web|url=http://www.castlewales.com/talley.html|title=Talley Abbey|website=www.castlewales.com}}{{cite web| url = http://www.cadw.wales.gov.uk/default.asp?id=6&PlaceID=130| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040908190735/http://www.cadw.wales.gov.uk/default.asp?id=6&PlaceID=130| archive-date = 2004-09-08| title = Cadw}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=51|title=Site details: Talley|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

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|Whitland Abbey

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|Cistercian monks — from Treffgarn
daughter house of Clairvaux;
(community sent to West Wales from Clairvaux 16 September 1140, temporarily settled at Treffgarn 1144 by Bernard, Bishop of St Davids)
founded here c.1151;
dissolved 1539; granted to Henry Audley and John Cordel 1544

|The Blessed Virgin Mary
____________________
Albalanda Abbey;
'Abelanda' Abbey;
Ty Gwyn ar Daf

|[http://cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk/place.asp?PlaceID=129 Whitland Abbey] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070811164207/http://cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk/place.asp?PlaceID=129 |date=11 August 2007 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=36|title=Site details: Whitland|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

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|Cardigan Priory

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|Benedictine monks
priory cell dependent on Gloucester, Gloucestershire;
founded c.1110–15;
priory cell dependent on Chertsey, Surrey after 1165 (before 1158?);
dissolved 1538; granted to Bisham, Berkshire and subsequently to William and Mary Cavendish 1539/40;
converted into a mansion;
opened as Cardigan District and Memorial Hospital 1922

|The Priory Church of Our Lady of Cardigan

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Cardigan Cell

|{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/wales/pp158-180|title=Cardigan - Carew | British History Online|website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20120723015624/http://www.cardigantaper.org/ Our Lady of Cardigan – National Shrine of Wales]}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=14|title=Site details: Cardigan|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

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|Llanbadarn Fawr Priory

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|Celtic monks
founded 6th century;
destroyed before 1100;
Benedictine monks
cell dependent on Gloucester;
church of St Paternus granted to Gloucester by Gilbert fitz Richard 1111;
founded c.1116-7;
lost from Gloucester 1136;
secular collegiate
refounded before 1144;
dissolved ?c.1361-2

|The Priory Church of Saint Padarn, Llanbadarn Fawr
St Paternus

|{{cite web|url=https://stpadarns-llanbadarn.org.uk/cy/croeso/|title=Eglwys St Padarn}}{{cite web |url=http://www.llanbadarn.fawr.co.uk/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=14 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010220429/http://www.llanbadarn.fawr.co.uk/ |archive-date=10 October 2016 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite journal |jstor = 3678364|title = The Possession of Cardigan Priory by Chertsey Abbey: A Study in Some Mediæval Forgeries|last1 = Malden|first1 = H. E.|journal = Transactions of the Royal Historical Society|year = 1911|volume = 5|pages = 141–156|doi = 10.2307/3678364| s2cid=192009511 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=17|title=Site details: Llanbadarn Fawr|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

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|Llanddewi-brefi Clas

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|monks
founded 6th century by St David;
secular collegiate
founded 1287 (1187) by Thomas Beck, Bishop of St David's;
dissolved c.1547

|St David
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Llandewi-brevi

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|Llanllyr Priory

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|Cistercian nuns
founded c.1180 (before 1197) by Rhees ap Gruffydd, Lord Rhys;
dissolved 1536; granted to William Sackville and John Dudley 1553;
site currently on privately owned land

|The Blessed Virgin Mary
____________________
Llanleir Priory;
Llanllŷr;
Lanfer;
Laller;
Lanter;
Llanweir

|{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=38|title=Site details: Llanllŷr|website=www.monasticwales.org}}{{cite web |website= coflein.gov.uk |title= Coflein – LLANLLYR NUNNERY |url= http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/400436/details/LLANLLYR+NUNNERY%2C+TALSARN/ |url-status= live |archive-date= 2016-03-03 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160303002200/http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/400436/details/LLANLLYR+NUNNERY%2C+TALSARN/ }}

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|Strata Florida Abbey

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|Cistercian monks
daughter house of Whitland, Carmarthenshire;
transferred from earlier foundation of Strata Florida at Yr Hen Fynachlog (see immediately below)
founded 1184 by Rhys ap Gruffydd;
dissolved 1539; granted to the Stedman family;
(Cadw)

|The Blessed Virgin Mary

|{{cite web | url=http://cistercians.shef.ac.uk/abbeys/strata_florida.php |title = Home page of the Cistercians in Yorkshire Project}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=32|title=Site details: Strata Florida|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|52.2754053

|Yr Hen Fynachlog (Strata Florida, earlier site)

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|Cistercian monks — from Whitland, Carmarthenshire
founded 1 June 1164 by Robert fitzStephen;
transferred to new site at Strata Florida (see immediately above) after 1184

|The Blessed Virgin Mary
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'The Old Monastery'

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|Yspyty-Ystwyth

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|Cistercian monks
grange and supposed hospice dependent on Strata Florida;
founded c.1180(?)

|The Blessed Virgin Mary

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|Aberconwy Abbey ⁺

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|Cistercian monks
daughter house of Strata Florida;
(community founded at Rhedynog-felen 24 (27) July 1186);
transferred here 1190 (before 1200) by Llywelyn Fawr of Gwynedd, removed from Rhedynog-felen, founded by Llewellvyn ab Iorwerth, becoming benefactor and patron before c.1200;
community transferred to new site at Maenan 1283;
church now in parochial use

|The Abbey Church of Saint Mary and All Saints
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Abaty Aberconwy;
Conway Abbey

|{{cite web | url=http://cistercians.shef.ac.uk/abbeys/aberconwy.php |title = Home page of the Cistercians in Yorkshire Project}}[http://cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk/place.asp?PlaceID=422 Aberconwy Abbey] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812022046/http://cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk/place.asp?PlaceID=422 |date=12 August 2007 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=22|title=Site details: Aberconwy 1|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|53.2806864

|Abergele Clas

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|Celtic monks
founded before 856

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|Maenan Abbey

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|Cistercian monks — from Aberconwy
(community founded at Rhedynog-felen 24 (27) July 1186);
transferred here 1283 after forced move by order of Edward I;
dissolved c.1538; granted to Elezeus Wynne (the Wynne family) 1562/3;
in ownership of William Frederick;
site now occupied by hotel and grounds

|The Abbey Church of Saint Mary and All Saints
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Abaty Maenan;
Maynan Abbey

|[http://cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk/place.asp?PlaceID=427 Maenan Abbey] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070811162823/http://cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk/place.asp?PlaceID=427 |date=11 August 2007 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=23|title=Site details: Maenan|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

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|Gwytherin Nunnery

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|Celtic nuns
connected with St Winefride

|Witheriac Nunnery

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|Ysbyty Ifan Preceptory

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|Knights Hospitaller
founded c.1190;
united with Halston, Shropshire 1294; in use 1338 but no longer housed a community;
dissolution unknown

|Ysbyty Ifan;
Dol Gynwal Preceptory

|{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/salop/vol2/pp87-88|title=House of Knights Hospitallers: Preceptory of Halston | British History Online|website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}

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|Denbigh Friary

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|Carmelite Friars
founded 1343–50 (or before 1289?);
dissolved 1538

|St Mary
____________________
Henllan Friary

|{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/wales/pp288-304|title=Denbigh - Denbighshire | British History Online|website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}{{Cite web |url=http://cadw.wales.gov.uk/daysout/denbigh-friary/?lang=en |title=CADW – Denbigh Friary |access-date=2 February 2013 |archive-date=8 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120608054318/http://cadw.wales.gov.uk/daysout/denbigh-friary/?lang=en |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=62|title=Site details: Denbigh|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

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|Llandrillo Clas

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|Celtic monks
church of St Teilo founded 7th century;
under abbot 9th century to c.1150;
parochial ? from after 1276

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|Llanynys Clas

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|Celtic monks
founded 6th century (SS Mor and Saeran);
{{not a typo|clas}} under abbot until 15th century

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|Rhuddlan Friary

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|Dominican Friars (under the visitation of Oxford)
founded before 1258;
dissolved 1538; granted to Henry ap Harry 1540/1

|Rhudland Friary;
Rhudlan

|{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=61|title=Site details: Rhuddlan|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

|Ruthin Priory

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|Bonshommes Canons
founded 1310 by John de Grey, Lord of Dyffryn;
dissolved 1535; granted to William Winlove and John Stevens 1550/1;
wall fragment remains to northwest of collegiate church

|

|{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=48|title=Site details: Ruthin|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|53.1157611

|Ruthin Whitefriars

|

|Carmelite Friars —
Ruthin Whitefriars — given by W. Dugdale, Monsticon Anglicanum and T. Tanner, Notitia Monastica, citing J. Leland considered most doubtfulRuthin Whitefriars — doubtful: Sir John E. Lloyd

|

|

|St Asaph Monastery

|150px

|Celtic monks
founded c.mid-6th century by St Asaph (Hassaph);
secular collegiate
episcopal diocesan cathedral
founded 1143; extant

|

|

{{coord|53.257222

|Vale of Clwyd Monastery

|

|purportedly founded by St Elerius (Elwy)

|Clwyd Valley Monastery

|

|Valle Crucis Abbey

|150px

|Cistercian monks — from Strata Marcella
founded 28 January 1201 by Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor, Prince of Powys at the instance of the abbots of Whitland, Strata Florida, Strata Marcella and Cwmhir;
dissolved 1536/7 and granted to Sir William Pickering
granted to Edward Wotton c.1611;
(Cadw)

|The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Valle Crucis
____________________
Abaty Glyn y Groes;
Abaty Glyn Egwestl;
De Valle Crucis Llanegwast

|{{cite web|url=http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/abbeys/valle%20crucis%20abbey.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218202411/http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/abbeys/valle%20crucis%20abbey.htm|url-status=dead|title=Welsh Abbeys – Valle Crucis Abbey|archivedate=18 February 2010}}{{cite web |url=http://www.llangollen.com/valle.html |title=Valle Crucis Abbey |access-date=20 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513111219/http://www.llangollen.com/valle.html |archive-date=13 May 2008 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=35|title=Site details: Valle Crucis|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|52.9888507

|Basingwerk Abbey

|150px

|Savignac monks — from Savigny
founded 11 July 1131 by Ranulph, Earl of Chester;
Cistercian monks
orders merged 17 September 1147;
dissolved 1535; granted to Henry ap Harry and Peter Mutton 1540/1;
briefly refounded under Queen Mary
(Cadw)

|The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
____________________
Abaty Dinas Basing

|{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/wales/pp430-440|title=Holywell - Hyssington | British History Online|website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}{{cite web|url=http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/abbeys/basingwerk_abbey.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723142106/http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/abbeys/basingwerk_abbey.htm|url-status=dead|title=Welsh Abbeys – Basingwerk Abbey|archivedate=23 July 2008}}{{cite web | url=http://cistercians.shef.ac.uk/abbeys/basingwerk.php | title=Home page of the Cistercians in Yorkshire Project}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=24|title=Site details: Basingwerk|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|53.2879457

|Talacre Abbey

|

|Benedictine nuns
founded 1868;
transferred to Curzon, Cheshire, 1988

|

|{{cite web|url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300000558-talacre-abbey-llanasa|title=Talacre Abbey, Llanasa, Flintshire|first=Good|last=Stuff|website=britishlistedbuildings.co.uk}}

{{coord|53.339533

|Aberdaron Clas

|

|Celtic monks — from Bardsey;
{{not a typo|clas}} founded 6th century by St Hyrwyn, disciple of St Dubricius;
abbey 8th century;
secular collegiate to after 1252

|

|

{{coord|52.8052521

|Bangor Blackfriars

|

|Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Oxford)
founded before 1251 by Llywelyn ap Gruffydd;
purportedly enlarged/rebuilt 1299;
dissolved 1538; granted to Thomas Brown 1553;
converted into a Free School 1557

|

|{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=57|title=Site details: Bangor|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|53.2173985

|Bangor Monastery

|150px

|Celtic monks
founded 6th century;
secular collegiate
episcopal diocesan cathedral
founded c.1092; extant

|The Cathedral Church of Saint Deniol, Bangor

|{{cite web |url=http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/bangor/cathedral/ |title=Esgobaeth Bangor | Bangor Diocese |access-date=24 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008054238/http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/bangor/cathedral/ |archive-date=8 October 2012 |url-status=dead }}

{{coord|53.2264782

|Bardsey Abbey

|150px

|Culdee monks
founded c./before 516?;
Augustinian Canons Regular
founded before 1240 (c.1210) by Llywelyn the Great of Gwynedd;
dissolved c.1537; granted to John, Earl of Warwick 1549/50;
in ownership of Bardsey Island Trust, with public access

|The Abbey of Saint Mary

|{{cite web |url=http://www.britannia.com/celtic/wales/history/bardsey2.html |title=Britannia History: Bardsey Island |access-date=21 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730020339/http://www.britannia.com/celtic/wales/history/bardsey2.html |archive-date=30 July 2017 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t7g1AAAAMAAJ&dq=bardsey+abbey&pg=PA53|title=Archaeologia Cambrensis|date=29 September 1847|publisher=W. Pickering|via=Google Books}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=41|title=Site details: Bardsey|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|52.7643654

|Beddgelert Priory

|150px

|Celtic monks
founded 6th/7th century;
Augustinian Canons Regular
founded c.1198 (c.1200–40) by Llywelyn the Great;
granted to the Carthusians at Chertsey, Surrey 1537;
dissolved with it 19 June 1538; granted to Lord Radnor by Henry VIII

|The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Beddgelert

now The Priory and Parish Church of Saint Mary, Beddgelert
____________________
Bethkelert Priory;
Bekelert;
'the priory of the Valley St Mary of Snowdon(ia)'

|{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/wales/pp68-81|title=Barry - Bettesfield | British History Online|website=www.british-history.ac.uk}} ^& {{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol2/pp82-85|title=Houses of Austin canons: The priory of Bisham | British History Online|website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}{{cite web |url=http://www.ukattraction.com/north-wales/st-marys-church-beddgelert.htm |title=St Mary's Church in Beddgelert — UK Attraction |access-date=21 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513072807/http://www.ukattraction.com/north-wales/st-marys-church-beddgelert.htm |archive-date=13 May 2008 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=42|title=Site details: Beddgelert|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|53.0110911

|Clynnog Fawr Abbey

|150px

|Celtic monks
founded c.616 by St Beuno;
dissolved before 1291;
Cistercian monks?
refounded 13th century;
secular collegiate
refounded before 1291;
dissolved 1547;
parochial church reputedly on site

|Clynnog Fawr Monastery;
Clynnog-fawr Abbey

|[http://www.penllyn.com/1/gallery/clynog/1.html Clynnog, Gwynedd]

{{coord|53.0188623

|Corwen Monastery

|

|Celtic monks
founded 6th–7th century;
dissolution unknown

|

|

|Cymer Abbey

|150px

|Cistercian monks
daughter house of Cwm Hir;
founded 1198/9 by Gruffudd and Maredudd ap Cynan (or Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (Lleweline son of Gervase);
dissolved 1536;
(Cadw)

|The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Llanelltyd
____________________
Cymmer Abbey;
Mynachlog y Faner'
Kinner Abbey

|{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/wales/pp196-213|title=Meliden - Miawst | British History Online|website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}{{cite web |url=http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/abbeys/cymer%20abbey.htm |title=Welsh Abbeys — Cymer Abbey |access-date=21 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725001606/http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/abbeys/cymer%20abbey.htm |archive-date=25 July 2008 |url-status=dead }}
{{cite web | url=http://cistercians.shef.ac.uk/abbeys/cymer.php |title = Home page of the Cistercians in Yorkshire Project}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=27|title=Site details: Cymer|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|52.7583145

|Rhedynog-felen Abbey

|

|Cistercian monks
daughter house of Strata Florida
founded 27 (24) July 1186
removed to Aberconwy c.1190 (not later than 1192)

|The Blessed Virgin Mary

|{{Cite journal |jstor = 2404720|title = Studies in Sheep Population and Environment in the Mountains of North-West Wales I. The Status of the Sheep in the Mountains of North Wales Since Mediaeval Times|last1 = Hughes|first1 = R. Elfyn|last2 = Dale|first2 = J.|last3 = Williams|first3 = I. Ellis|last4 = Rees|first4 = D. I.|journal = Journal of Applied Ecology|year = 1973|volume = 10|issue = 1|pages = 113–132|doi = 10.2307/2404720}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GSv77Ry8oW4C&dq=Rhedynog+cistercian&pg=PA13|title=The Welsh Cistercians: Written to Commemorate the Centenary of the Death of Stephen William Williams (1837-1899) (The Father of Cistercian Archaeology in Wales)|first=David Henry|last=Williams|date=29 September 2001|publisher=Gracewing Publishing|isbn=9780852443545|via=Google Books}}

{{coord|53.0933025

|St Tudwal's Island Monastery

|

|Celtic monks, Culdees
founded 6th century;
Augustinian Canons Regular
founded before 1417;
dissolved 1535(?)

|Ynys Tudwal Monastery;
Modstedwall Monastery

|{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=50|title=Site details: St Tudwal's Island|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|52.8051758

|Towyn Clas

|

|Celtic monks — from Bardsey
founded 6th century by St Cadfan from Bardsey;
under an abbot 1147

|

|

|Abergavenny Priory ⁺

|150px

|Benedictine monks
alien house: dependent on St-Vincent, Le Mans;
founded 1087–1100 by Hamelinus de Barham (Hamelin Balon);
became denizen: independent from 1415;
dissolved 1536;
church now in parochial use

|The Priory Church of St Mary the Virgin, Abergavenny

|{{cite web|url=http://www.abergavenny.co.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=ABERMD.list&entryID=716|title=Abergavenny: The Official Site.co.uk - The Official website for Abergavenny|date=25 September 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060925195311/http://www.abergavenny.co.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=ABERMD.list&entryID=716|archive-date=25 September 2006}}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uc0uAAAAMAAJ&dq=bassaleg+benedictine&pg=PA233|title=A Geographical Dictionary of England and Wales|first=William|last=Cobbett|date=29 September 1832|publisher=Wm. Cobbett|via=Google Books}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=1|title=Site details: Abergavenny|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.8213502

|Caerwent Clas

|

|Celtic monks
founded c.6th century, patron St Tathan;
parochial from after 1066?

|

|{{coord|51.6115477

|Chepstow Priory ⁺

|150px

|Benedictine monks
alien house: daughter house of Cormeilles, Normandy (due to which, twin-town with Chepstow)
founded before 1071 (1072) by William FitzOsbern, Earl of Hereford;
became denizen: independent from c.1442;
dissolved 1536; masonry used for building, part of structure collapsed;
rebuilt; in use as parochial church

|The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Chepstow
____________________
Striguil Priory;
Strogull Priory

|{{cite web|url=https://www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=358|title=Chepstow Priory, History & Photos | Historic Wales Guide|website=Britain Express}}{{cite web|url=https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/?articleid=1669|title=Gloucestershire County Council - Gloucestershire County Council|website=www.gloucestershire.gov.uk}}{{cite web |url= http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/221488/details |title= St Mary's Church, Chepstow; St Mary's Priory (Benedictine) {{!}} Site Details |website= Coflein.gov.uk |url-status= live |archive-date= 2016-03-03 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160303002200/http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/221488/details |access-date= 2018-08-02}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=15|title=Site details: Chepstow|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.6426676

|Goldcliff Priory

|150px

|Benedictine monks
alien house: cell dependent on Bec Hellouin
founded 1113 by Robert de Chandos;
became denizen c.1414:
destroyed by flood 1424
cell dependent on Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire 1442 at suppression of alien houses

|The Priory Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Goldcliff

|{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol2/pp61-66|title=Houses of Benedictine monks: The abbey of Tewkesbury | British History Online|website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}{{cite web|url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/record?catid=7649871&catln=6|title=The Discovery Service|first=The National|last=Archives|website=discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk}}{{cite web|url=https://www.newport.gov.uk/en/Leisure-Tourism/Attractions/St-Woolos-Cathedral.aspx|title=St Woolos Cathedral | Newport City Council|website=www.newport.gov.uk}}{{Cite journal |jstor = 526827|title = The Goldcliff Stone and Roman Drainage on the Caldicot Level: An Evaluation at Hill Farm, Goldcliff, 1996|last1 = Locock|first1 = Martin|journal = Britannia|year = 1998|volume = 29|pages = 329–336|doi = 10.2307/526827| s2cid=162801433 }}
{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GSv77Ry8oW4C&dq=Goldcliff+priory+archaeology&pg=PA44|title=The Welsh Cistercians: Written to Commorate the Centenary of the Death of Stephen William Williams (1837-1899) (The Father of Cistercian Archaeology in Wales)|first=David Henry|last=Williams|date=29 September 2001|publisher=Gracewing Publishing|isbn=9780852443545|via=Google Books}}

{{coord|51.5378874

|Grace Dieu Abbey ^#

|150px

|Cistercian monks — from Abbey Dore, Herefordshire
daughter house of Waverley, Surrey;
founded 24 April 1226 by Sir John of Monmouth;
apparently ruined in incursions by the Welsh 1233;
dissolved 1536; granted to Thomas Herbert and William Bretton 1545

|The Blessed Virgin Mary

|{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/site/28|title=Site details: Grace Dieu|website=www.monasticwales.org}}{{cite web|url=http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/306498/details/GRACE+DIEU+ABBEY+%28CISTERCIAN%29/|title=GRACE DIEU ABBEY (CISTERCIAN) | Site Details | Coflein|access-date=17 December 2011|archive-date=6 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106050139/http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/306498/details/GRACE+DIEU+ABBEY+%28CISTERCIAN%29/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web | url=http://cistercians.shef.ac.uk/abbeys/grace_dieu.php | title=Home page of the Cistercians in Yorkshire Project}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=28|title=Site details: Grace Dieu|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.814

|Kemeys Commander

|

|Knights Templar
manor or camera;
Knights Hospitaller
member of Garway, Herefordshire

|Kemeys Commandery;
Kemeys Preceptory

|{{cite web|url=http://www.cefnpennar.com/kemeys|title=Loading...|website=www.cefnpennar.com}}

{{coord|51.735321

|Llangua Priory

|

|Benedictine monks
alien house: dependent on Lyre
founded 1183, manor and church granted before 1183;
dissolved c.1420; granted to the Carthusians at Sheen, Surrey (London);
remains in

|dedication unknown
____________________
Llangwyfan Priory

|{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=8|title=Site details: Llangua|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.9268405

|Llanthony Priory

|150px

|hermitage
founded between 1087 and 1100 by William, knight who became hermit here during the reign of William II);
joined by Ersinius, priest 1103, and others later, rebuilding an old church; consecrated and dedicated to John the Baptist 1108;
Augustinian Canons Regular
founded before 1108 by Hugh de Lacy;
became a cell dependent on Llanthony Secunda, Gloucestershire 1481 when monks transferred there due to hardships under the Welsh;
dissolved 1538 and granted to Nicholas Arnold;
purchased by Col. Sir Mark Wood, who converted buildings into a house; sold 1807 to Walter Savage Landor;
(Cadw)

|The Priory Church of Saint John the Baptist, Llanthony
____________________
Llanhodenei Priory;
Lantony Priory;
Llanthony Prima;
Llanhodenei

|{{cite web|url=http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/priories/llanthony%20priory.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080325002103/http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/priories/llanthony%20priory.htm|url-status=dead|title=Welsh Priories: Llanthony Priory|archivedate=25 March 2008}}{{cite web|url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09316a.htm|title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Llanthony Priory|website=www.newadvent.org}}
{{Cite journal |jstor = 2850578|title = A Thirteenth-Century Manuscript from Llanthony Priory|last1 = Brown|first1 = Carleton|journal = Speculum|year = 1928|volume = 3|issue = 4|pages = 587–595|doi = 10.2307/2850578|s2cid = 161452696}}
[http://www.britainexpress.com/wales/wye/abbeys.htm Medieval monasteries in Wales — Wye Valley & Usk]{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=45|title=Site details: Llanthony Prima|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.944614

|Magor Grange

|

|Cistercian monks
alien house: grange dependent on Gloria Dei;
founded 1239;
became denizen: grange dependent on Tintern 1247

|

|

|Monmouth Priory

|150px

|Benedictine monks
alien house: cell dependent on St-Florent-de-Saumur;
founded before 1086, church of St Cadoc and other endowments granted by Withenoc of Monmouth (Wihenoc de Monemue) who built St Mary's Priory;
became denizen: independent from 1415;
dissolved 1540; granted to Richard Price and Thomas Perry

|The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Florent at Monmouth

|{{cite web| url = http://www.monmouth.org.uk/History/placesInterest.aspx| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080217202735/http://www.monmouth.org.uk/History/placesInterest.aspx| archive-date = 2008-02-17| title = Welcome to the Monmouth Web Site, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Gwent, The Wye Valley, Wales and the UK}}{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Monmouth-Wales|title=Monmouth | Wales, United Kingdom|website=Encyclopædia Britannica}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=9|title=Site details: Monmouth|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.8131925

|Newport Friary

|

|Augustinian Friars (under the Limit of Oxford)
founded before 1377;
dissolved 1538

|

|{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=56|title=Site details: Newport|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.5872799

|Newport Clas

|

|Celtic monks
founded 6th century, purportedly after 520 (located near the separate accommodations where St Woolos (GwynLlyw) and his wife Gwladys retired as hermits in old age)

|

|

|St Kynemark Priory

|

|uncertain order
founded before 1291 (1270);
dissolved c.1535;
site currently within a residential housing estate

|St Kenmercy;
Cynmarch;
Kingsmark

|{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=49|title=Site details: St Kynemark|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.6383349

|Tintern Abbey

|150px

|Savignac monks
daughter house of L'Aumône;
founded 9 May 1131 by Walter fitz Richard de Clare;
Cistercian monks
orders merged 17 September 1147;
dissolved 1539; granted to Henry, Earl of Worcester;
(Cadw)

|The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Tintern
____________________
Abaty Tyndyrn

|{{cite web | url=http://cistercians.shef.ac.uk/abbeys/tintern.php | title=Home page of the Cistercians in Yorkshire Project}}{{cite web|url=https://www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=372|title=Tintern Abbey, History & Photos | Historic Wales Guide|website=Britain Express}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=34|title=Site details: Tintern|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.6968108

|Usk Priory

|

|Benedictine nuns
founded c.1160 (before 1236) by Richard 'Strongbow' de Clare;
with regular priests or brethren until after 1330;
dissolved 1536; granted to Roger Williams 1544

|The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Usk
____________________
Cairusk;
Brynbuga

|{{cite web |url=http://www.archivesnetworkwales.info/cgi-bin/anw/search2?coll_id=1191&inst_id=36&term= |title=Records of the Rickards family of Usk Priory |access-date=21 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605134744/http://www.archivesnetworkwales.info/cgi-bin/anw/search2?coll_id=1191&inst_id=36&term= |archive-date=5 June 2011 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=40|title=Site details: Usk|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.7025294

|Margam Abbey ⁺

|150px

|Celtic monks
{{not a typo|clas}} founded ?6th century;
Cistercian monks
daughter house of Clairvaux;
founded 21 November 1147 by Robert, Earl of Gloucester;
dissolved 1536; sold to Sir Rice Mansel (Sir Richard Moxell) who demolished much of it and built a mansion on the site;
now partly in parochial church use and partly in council ownership;
later in ownership of Thomas, Lord Mansel;

|The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Margam
____________________
Morgan Abbey

|{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070321192427/http://www.margamabbey.co.uk/ Margam Abbey]}}[http://cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk/image.asp?imageName=margam_L The Cistercian Way – The cloister at Margam Abbey: photo John Smith, ARC] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501071053/http://cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk/image.asp?imageName=margam_L |date=1 May 2008 }}{{cite web | url=http://cistercians.shef.ac.uk/abbeys/margam.php |title = Home page of the Cistercians in Yorkshire Project}}
{{cite web|url=https://www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=366|title=Margam Abbey | History, Photos, Travel Information|website=Britain Express}}{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofmargama00bircuoft|title=A history of Margam Abbey : derived from the original documents in the British Museum, H.M. Record Office, the Margam muniments, etc|first=Walter de Gray|last=Birch|date=29 September 1897|publisher=London : Printed at the Bedford Press|via=Internet Archive}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=30|title=Site details: Margam|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.5626937

|Neath Abbey

|150px

|Savignac monks
daughter house of Savigny
founded 25 October 1130 by Sir Richard de Granville (Grainville);
Cistercian monks 1147;
dissolved 1539; granted to Sir Richard Williams alias Cromwell

|The Abbey Church of the Holy Trinity and the Blessed Virgin Mary, Neath
____________________
Neth Abbey

|[http://cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk/place.asp?PlaceID=68 Neath Abbey] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070811130914/http://cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk/place.asp?PlaceID=68 |date=11 August 2007 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/abbeys/neath%20abbey.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724134655/http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/abbeys/neath%20abbey.htm|url-status=dead|title=Welsh Abbeys – Neath Abbey|archivedate=24 July 2008}}{{cite web | url=http://cistercians.shef.ac.uk/abbeys/neath.php | title=Home page of the Cistercians in Yorkshire Project}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=31|title=Site details: Neath|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.6608451

|Bassaleg Priory

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|Benedictine monks
cell dependent on Glastonbury, Somerset;
founded 1116 (1101), church of St Basilius granted to Glastonbury by Robert de Haya;
dissolved before 1252, Michael, Abbot of Glaston, let as farm

|St Basil
____________________
Basaleg Priory;
Basselech;
Basele

|{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/england/pp168-177|title=Basingstoke - Battersby | British History Online|website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}{{cite web |url=http://www.wherewhenwales.com/wales-things-to-do/ryder-cup-2010-art10-1.html |title=Ryder Cup 2010 - WhereWhenWales |access-date=2008-05-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517201040/http://www.wherewhenwales.com/wales-things-to-do/ryder-cup-2010-art10-1.html |archive-date=17 May 2008 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=13|title=Site details: Bassaleg|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.5782697

|Malpas Priory

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|Cluniac monks
alien house: cell of Montacute, Somerset;
founded before 1122 by Winibald de Caerleon (Winebald de Baeluns);
became denizen: independent from 1407;
dissolved 1539; granted to Sir William Herbert c.1547

|St Mary
____________________
Malpas Cell

|{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol2/pp111-115|title=House of Cluniac monks: The priory of Montacute | British History Online|website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=11|title=Site details: Malpas|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.6152186

|Newport Friary

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|Augustinian Friars (under the Limit of Oxford)
founded before 1377;
dissolved 1538

|

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{{coord|51.5872799

|Newport Clas

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|Celtic monks
founded 6th century, purportedly after 520 (located near the separate accommodations where St Woolos (GwynLlyw) and his wife Gwladys retired as hermits in old age)

|

|

|Caldey Island Priory

|150px

|Celtic monks — from Llantwit Major
founded late-5th century? (6th century), settlement possibly ended by raids by the Danes 10th century
Benedictine monks — from St Dogmaels
refounded after 1113–1115;
dissolved 1536

|Caldey Cell;
Caldy Priory;
Ynys Pyr

|{{cite web |url=http://www.caldey-island.co.uk/monks.htm |title=The Monks of Caldey Island |access-date=4 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527083518/http://www.caldey-island.co.uk/monks.htm |archive-date=27 May 2013 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=19|title=Site details: Caldey|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.6344276

|Caldey Abbey *

|150px

|Anglican Benedictine
purchased 1906 and built present abbey
converted to Catholicism 1913
sold due to financial difficulties 1925
Cistercian monks
founded 1926; extant

|

|[http://cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk/place.asp?PlaceID=101 Caldey Island] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714133416/http://cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk/place.asp?PlaceID=101 |date=14 July 2014 }}

{{coord|51.6378403

|Haverfordwest Blackfriars

|150px

|Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Oxford)
founded before 1246;
dissolved 1538

|St Saviour

|{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=60|title=Site details: Haverfordwest|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.8026442

|Haverfordwest Priory

|150px

|Augustinian Canons Regular
founded before 1200 by Robert of Haverford;
dissolved 1536; granted to Roger and Thomas Barlow c.1546

|The Blessed Virgin Mary and St Thomas the Martyr
____________________
Haverford Priory

|{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=44|title=Site details: Haverfordwest|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.7982785

|Monkton Priory

|150px

|Benedictine monks
alien house: dependent on St-Martin, Séez;
founded 1098 by the Anulph de Montgomery, Earl of Pembroke, church of St Nicholas granted to Séez until 1441;
became denizen: granted to St Albans, Hertfordshire 1413;
dissolved after 1535; granted to John Vaughan c.1545

|St Nicholas
____________________
Pembroke Priory;
Pembroke Cell

|{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=10|title=Site details: Pembroke|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.6755891

|Nevern Monastery

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|Celtic monks
founded 5th century by St Brynach;
parochial from 1115

|

|

|Penally Clas ⁺

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|Celtic monks
founded 6th century by St Teilo;
dissolved c.1100;
remains incorporated into Church in Wales parish church of SS Nicholas & Teilo

|

|[http://cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk/place.asp?PlaceID=113 Penally] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812023612/http://cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk/place.asp?PlaceID=113 |date=12 August 2007 }}

{{coord|51.6597586

|Pill Priory

|150px

|Tironensian monks
daughter house of St Dogmaels
founded after 1113–1115 (1200) by Adam de Rupe (Adam de Roche);
dissolved 1536; granted to Roger and Thomas Barlow c.1541

|The Blessed Virgin Mary and St Budoc
____________________
Pille Priory;
Pilla Priory;
Hubberston Priory

|{{cite web |url=http://www.acadat.com/projects/PillPriory.htm |title=Archaeology in Wales - Ymddiriedolaeth Archaeolegol Dyfed - Dyfed Archaeological Trust |access-date=2008-07-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080727022139/http://www.acadat.com/projects/PillPriory.htm |archive-date=27 July 2008 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=21|title=Site details: Pill|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.7245593

|Ramsey Island Monastery

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|Celtic monks

|

|

|St Dogmaels Abbey

|150px

|Celtic monks
founded 6th century;
destroyed 987;
{{not a typo|clas}} later;
Tironensian monks
alien house: daughter house of Tiron, Normandy
founded c.1113–15 by Robert fitzMartin;
raised to abbey status 1120;
dissolved 1536; granted to John Bradshaw
(Cadw)

|The Blessed Virgin Mary and St Dogmael
____________________
St Dogmells Abbey;
Llandudoch Abbey

|{{cite web |url=http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/abbeys/st_dogmaels_abbey.htm |title=Welsh Abbeys – St Dogmael's Abbey |access-date=15 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090911223508/http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/abbeys/st_dogmaels_abbey.htm |archive-date=11 September 2009 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=20|title=Site details: St Dogmaels|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|52.0805082

|Slebech Preceptory

|

|Knights Hospitaller
founded 1161–76, reputedly by Wizo and his son (or grandson) Walter; granted to Gloucester by Wizo;
dissolved before 1540; granted to Roger and Thomas Barlow

|Slebagh Preceptory;
Slebach Preceptory

|{{Cite web |url=http://monasticmatrix.org/bibliographia/?function=detail&id=13006 |title=Bibliographia |access-date=22 May 2008 |archive-date=27 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727091841/http://monasticmatrix.org/bibliographia/?function=detail&id=13006 |url-status=dead }}

{{coord|51.7893004

|Templeton

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|Knights Templar
possibly small hostel or hospice;
founded before 1185(?);
dissolved before 1300; in private hands by the end of the 13th century

|

|

|Tenby Whitefriars ?

|

|Carmelite Friars?
purportedly founded 1399;Tenby Whitefriars — Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales: Pembroke (1925), p.398 states lack of grounds to associate 'The Carmelites' with friars or nuns; probably a choristers' school connected with parochial church

|

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|Treffgarn Abbey

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|Cistercian monks
daughter house of Clairvaux;
(community sent to West Wales from Clairvaux 16 September 1140);
founded c.1144, temporarily settled here by Bernard, Bishop of St Davids;
transferred to Whitland, Carmarthenshire 1151

|The Blessed Virgin Mary

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|Brecon Friary ⁺

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|Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Oxford)
founded before 1269;
dissolved 1538;
church later college chapel founded 1541 by Henry VIII

|

|{{cite web | url=http://a-day-in-the-life.powys.org.uk/eng/ed/ee_christ.php | title=Christ College, Brecon}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=58|title=Site details: Brecon|website=www.monasticwales.org}}
{{coord|51.9465415

|Brecon Cathedral Priory ⁺

|150px

|Benedictine monks
dependent on Battle, Sussex;
founded c.1110 by Bernard de Newmarch;
dissolved 1538; granted to John ap Price (ap Rice) by Henry VIII;
conventual church in use as diocesan cathedral
founded 1923; extant

|The Priory Church of Saint John the Evangelist, Brecon

|{{cite web|url=https://swanseaandbrecon.churchinwales.org.uk/en/brecon-cathedral/|title=Brecon Cathedral|website=Swansea and Brecon}}{{cite web | url=http://a-day-in-the-life.powys.org.uk/eng/law/el_priory3.php |title = The Priory}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=2|title=Site details: Brecon|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.9511953

|Cwmhir Abbey

|150px

|Cistercian monks
daughter house of Whitland;
(apparent attempted foundation at Tyfaenor 22 July 1143);
founded here 1 August 1176 by Cadwallon ap Madog;
dissolved 1537; granted to Walter Henley and John Williams 1545/6

|The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Cwmhir
____________________
Cwmhyr Abbey;
Abbey-Cwmhir;
Cwm Hir Abbey;
Cumhire Abbey

|{{cite web|url=https://www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=359|title=Cwmhir Abbey - History, Travel, and accommodation information|website=Britain Express}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=26|title=Site details: Cwmhir|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|52.329845

|Glascwm Clas

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|Celtic monks
founded 6th century, believed by St David;
parochial from c.1200?

|Glascomb

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|Glasbury Clas

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|Celtic monks
founded 7th century, patron Cynidr (St Kenider);
parochial from c.1088

|

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|Llandinam Clas

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|Celtic monks
founded 7th century by St Llonio;
under an abbot until c.1150;
parochial from after 1276?

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|Llangorse Clas

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|Celtic monks
founded early-7th century;
parochial from before c.1100

|St Paulinus

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|Llanguric Clas

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|Celtic monks
founded early-6th century by St Curig (Cyriac);
{{not a typo|clas}} until after 1175?

|

|

|Llanllugan Abbey

|

|Cistercian nuns — from Strata Marcella
founded 1188 (before 1236) by Maredudd ap Rhobert, Lord of Cydewain;
dissolved 1536; granted to Sir Arthur Darcy

|The Blessed Virgin Mary
____________________
Llanlugan Abbey

|{{cite web|url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13332c.htm|title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ancient Diocese of Saint Asaph|website=www.newadvent.org}}{{cite web| url = http://cistercians.shef.ac.uk/cistercian_life/women/nuns/nunneries.php| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061007193626/http://cistercians.shef.ac.uk/cistercian_life/women/nuns/nunneries.php| archive-date = 2006-10-07| title = Cistercian life > Women > Nuns}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=37|title=Site details: Llanllugan|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|52.6110159

|Llanrhaiadr ym mochnant Clas

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|Celtic monks
founded 6th century by St Dogfan (Doewan);
{{not a typo|clas}} to after 1291

|

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|Llansaintfraed in Elvel Priory

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|Cistercian nuns
founded before 1174 by Enoch, first abbot of Strata Marcella;
dissolved before 1186(?)

|The Blessed Virgin Mary

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|Llansilin Clas

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|Celtic monks
foundation unknown;
dissolved 13th century

|

|

|Meigod Clas

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|Celtic monks
founded 6th century by St Tysilio;
{{not a typo|clas}} until 1170 or 1201

|

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|St Harmon Clas

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|Celtic monks
founded 6th century?, patron St Garmon;
{{not a typo|clas}} to after 1066?

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|Strata Marcella, earlier site

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|Cistercian monks
daughter house of Whitland
founded 22 July 1170 by Owain Cyfeiliog (Owen Keveliog);
transferred to new site (see immediately below) 10 July 1172Strata Marcella — date of transfer to new site suggested by L. Janauschek, Originum Cisterciensium (1877)

|The Blessed Virgin Mary

|

|Strata Marcella Abbey ^$

|

|Cistercian monks
daughter house of Whitland & Buildwas, Shropshire;
(community founded at earlier site (see immediately above) 22 July 1170);
transferred here 10 July 1172;
dissolved 1536; granted to Rowland Howard and Thomas Dixton

|The Blessed Virgin Mary
____________________
Ystrad Marchell;
Pola

|{{cite web | url=http://cistercians.shef.ac.uk/abbeys/strata_marcella.php |title = Home page of the Cistercians in Yorkshire Project}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=33|title=Site details: Strata Marcella|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|52.6862849

|Tyfaenor Abbey (?)

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|Cistercian monks — from Whitland
apparent unsuccessful attempted colonization;
founded 22 July 1143 by Cadwathelan;
trns to Cwmhir 1176

|Dyvanner Abbey;
Ty-faenor

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|Pendar Grange

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|Cistercian monks
grange dependent on Margam;
founded c.1147;
dependent on Llantarnam after 1179

|

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|Milton Camera

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|Knights' camera

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|

{{coord|51.5356585

|Penrhys Grange

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|probably Cistercian monks
grange dependent on Llantarnam
possibly founded 1130/2 by Robert of Gloucester;
dissolved 1538;
masonry used in construction of later buildings

|St Mary

|{{cite web|url=http://www.therhondda.co.uk/place_names/penrhys.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080521143208/http://www.therhondda.co.uk/place_names/penrhys.html|url-status=dead|title=Rhondda Valley Place names Penrhys from My Tribute to the Rhondda|archivedate=21 May 2008}}

{{coord|51.6444951

|Bishopston Monastery

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|Benedictine monks
dependent on Llandeilo Fawr;
founded end of 6th century, patron St Teilo;
dissolved 1107?;
13th century church built on site

|St Teilo
____________________
Llandeilo Ferwallt

|{{cite web|url=http://www.explore-gower.co.uk/Content/pa=showpage/pid=11.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012212414/http://www.explore-gower.co.uk/Content/pa=showpage/pid=11.html|url-status=dead|title=Content › Bishopston Church|archivedate=12 October 2007}}

{{coord|51.5850941

|Llangenith Priory ^+?

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|Benedictine monks
alien house: dependent on St-Taurinus, Evreux
founded before 1123 by Henry, Earl of Warwick;
dissolved c.1414; granted to the Warden and Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford;
present parochial church of St Cenydd on site was probably the priory chapel

|St Cenydd
____________________
Llan-genydd Priory;
Llangennith;
Llangenydd

|{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/wales/pp36-47|title=Llangennith - Llangorse | British History Online|website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=7|title=Site details: Llangennith|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.5996603

|Llanmadog

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|Knights Templar
founded 1156, granted by Margaret, Countess of Warwick;
manor later becoming a member of Garway, Herefordshire

|

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|Llangyfelach Clas

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|Celtic monks
founded 6th century (in the time of St David) (St Cyvelach);
parochial from 13th century?

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|Llantarnam Abbey

|150px

|Cistercian monks
daughter house of Strata Florida
founded 1179 by Hywel ap Iorwerth; community name was changed from Caerleon 1273, possibly indicating relocation to a new site;
dissolved 1536 and leased to John Parker; later owned by the Morgan family; house built around cloister; re-built c.1830

|The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Llantarnam
____________________
Llanterna;
Vallium;
Dewma

|{{cite web | url=http://cistercians.shef.ac.uk/abbeys/llantarnam.php |title = Home page of the Cistercians in Yorkshire Project}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=showsite&siteID=29|title=Site details: Llantarnam|website=www.monasticwales.org}}

{{coord|51.6307483

|Barry Island Monastery

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|Celtic monks
cell? founded 6th–7th century

|

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|Llancarfan Monastery

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|Celtic monks
founded early 500s by St Cadoc;
parochial from c.1100

|Llancarvan Monastery

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|Llandough Clas

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|Celtic monks
founded 6th century by Abbot Docguinni (Docgwin);
parochial from after 1107

|

|

|Llantwit-Major Monastery

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|Celtic monks
monastery and school;
founded c.478 (before 540?) by St Illtyd; continued to after 1100;
granted to Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire

|Llanilltud fawr Monastery

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|Bangor-is-y-coed Abbey

|

|traditionally founded earlier than 6th century;
abbey early 6th century

|

|