List of monastic houses in Cornwall

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

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{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.60482|long=-4.5125914|label= Altarnon Monastery|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Altarnon Monastery}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.46931|long=-4.73364|label= St Mary and St Petrock Abbey, Bodmin|label_size=65|label_width=10|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=St Mary and St Petrock Abbey, Bodmin}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.4797424|long=-4.7196311|label= Bodmin Friary (site)|label_size=65|label_width=10|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Bodmin Friary}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.4706783|long=-4.7156829|label= Bodmin Priory|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=top|link=Bodmin Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.4714772|long=-4.651401|label= Cardinham Grange (poss. site)|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=bottom|link=Cardinham Grange}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.403148|long=-5.1119927|label= Crantock Monastery|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Crantock Monastery}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.2360144|long=-5.0242536|label= Kea Monastery (supp. site)|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Kea Monastery}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.336931|long=-4.449143|label= Lammana Priory|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Lammana Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat= 50.0507186|long=-5.0868201|label= {{nowrap|Lannachebran Cell}}|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Lannachebran Cell}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.6412046|long=-4.3661374|label= Launceston Priory|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Launceston Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.5412334|long=-4.9429464|label= Lanwethinoc Priory (poss. site)|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Lanwethinoc Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.1315902|long=-5.5646825|label= Madron Monastery (approx.)|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Madron Monastery}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.0824805|long=-5.1264954|label= Manaccan Monastery (approx.)|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=top|link=Manaccan Monastery}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.6831697|long=-4.6757019|label= Minster Priory|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Minster Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.2957206|long=-4.9442554|label= Probus Monastery (site)|label_width=12|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Probus Monastery}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.4203929|long=-5.0319099|label= Rialton Grange (approx.)|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Rialton Grange}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.0827008|long=-5.1089859|label= {{nowrap|St Anthony's Monastery (approx.)}}|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=St Anthony's Monastery}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.1480864|long=-5.0135422|label= St Anthony-in-Roseland Priory (approx.)|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=St Anthony-in-Roseland Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.0619878|long=-5.6483459|label= St Buryan's Monastery (approx.)|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=St Buryan's Monastery}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.382911|long=-4.652753|label= St Carrok's Monastery (approx.)|label_size=75|label_width=10|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=St Carrok's Monastery}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.396686|long=-4.309699|label= St German's Priory|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=St German's Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.2430333|long=-4.8010254|label= St Goran's Monastery|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=St Goran's Monastery}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.558147|long=-4.794374|label= St Kew Monastery|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=St Kew Monastery}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.4625583|long=-5.0253868|label= St Mawgan Monastery (approx.)|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=St Mawgan Monastery}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.116387|long=-5.478329|label= St Michael's Mount Priory|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=St Michael's Mount Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.474442|long=-4.566211|label= St Neot's Monastery|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=bottom|link=St Neot's Monastery}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.3650105|long=-5.1469231|label= St Piran's Monastery (approx.)|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=St Piran's Monastery}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=49.9474643|long=-6.328758|label= Scilly Priory|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Scilly Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.347987|long=-4.505089|label= Sclerder Abbey|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Sclerder Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.530166|long=-4.618571|label= Temple property (approx.)|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Temple property}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.4780253|long=-4.3971598|label= Temple Templars Preceptory (approx.)|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Temple Templars Preceptory}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.6685911|long=-4.7608405|label= Tintagel Monastery|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Tintagel Monastery}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.4793361|long=-4.3917525|label= Trebeigh Preceptory (site)|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Trebeigh Preceptory}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.0551549|long=-5.0890732|label= Tregonan Cell|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=bottom|link=Tregonan Cell}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.0521825|long=-5.0901407|label= {{nowrap|Tregonan Grange (site)}}|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Tregonan Grange}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.2663016|long=-4.9174118|label= Tregony Priory (approx.)|label_size=75|label_width=10|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Tregony Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.272468|long=-5.059001|label= Convent of the
Epiphany, Truro|label_width=14|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=top|link=Convent of the Epiphany, Truro}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.263296|long=-5.0550118|label= Truro Dominican Friary (site)|label_width=12|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Truro Dominican Friary}}

{{Location map~ |Cornwall |lat=50.3565371|long=-4.6939087|label= Tywardreath Priory|label_size=75|mark red pog.svg| position=bottom|link=Tywardreath Priory}}

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|Altarnon Monastery

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|probable monastery
before 1066Altarnon Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 54, Cornish Church Guide, 1925

|Altarnun Monastery

|{{PastScape|mnumber=436380 |mname=|accessdate=13 October 2015}}

{{coord|50.60482

4.5125914|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Altarnon Monastery}}
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|Bodmin — Abbey of St Mary & St Petroc*

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|Augustinian Canons Regular (Canons Regular of the LateranPevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall, 2nd ed. Penguin Books)
founded 1881;
raised to abbey status 1953

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|[http://stmarysbodmin.org.uk/st-marys-bodmin/ St Mary's, Bodmin « The Catholic Parish of St Mary & St Petroc, Bodmin]

{{coord|50.46931| -4.73364|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=St Mary and St Petrock Abbey, Bodmin}}

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|Bodmin Blackfriars

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|probable mistaken reference to Bodmin GreyfriarsBodmin 'Blackfriars' — given by John Leland, Itinerary; T. Tanner, Notitia Monastica p. 72, note n. gives this as a seemingly erroneous reference to Bodmin Greyfriars

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|Bodmin Greyfriars #

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|Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Bristol)
founded before 1260;
dissolved 1538

|Bodmin Greyfriars

|{{PastScape|mnumber=431317 |mname=BODMIN GREYFRIARS|accessdate=14 April 2010}}

{{coord|50.4797424

4.7196311|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Bodmin Friary (site)}}
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|Bodmin Priory +

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|Celtic monks
abbey? purportedly founded 6th century by St Petroc;
Benedictine? monks
refounded 936;
nuns?
dissolved c.1113;
monks or secular
dissolved c.1124;
Augustinian Canons Regular
founded 1124;
dissolved 27 February 1538;
buildings destroyed apart from the parish church, in parochial use as Church of England parish church;
church in use for secular and industrial purposes post-dissolution

|Bodmin Monastery;
Bodmin Abbey

|{{PastScape|mnumber=431308 |mname=BODMIN PRIORY|accessdate=14 April 2010}}

{{coord|50.4706783

4.7156829|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Bodmin Priory}}
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|Breage Grange

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|Cistercian monks
grange dependent on Hailes, Gloucestershire;
founded c.1300

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|Cardinham Grange #

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|purported medieval monastery

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|{{PastScape|mnumber=432616 |mname=|accessdate=14 April 2010}}

{{coord|50.4714772

4.651401|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Cardinham Grange (possible site)}} (possible)
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|Constantyne Monastery

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|Celtic monksConstantyne Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 78, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925

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|Crantock Monastery

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|Celtic monks
probably founded by a St Carrock;
secular
before 1066;
recorded extant 1086;
secular canons collegiate
refounded 1236;
dissolved 1549

|St Corontocus
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St Karentoc's Monastery

|{{PastScape|mnumber=428452 |mname=CRANTOCK|accessdate=13 October 2015}}

{{coord|50.403148

5.1119927|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Crantock Monastery}}
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|Dingerein Monastery

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|Celtic monksDingerein Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 100, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925

|Dinurrin Monastery

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|Gulval Monastery

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|Celtic monksGulval Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 104, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
founded by St Gudwall (Wolvela), from Wales

|Dinurrin Monastery

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|Kea Monastery, Old Kea

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|Celtic monksKea Monastery Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 116, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
supposed site of monastery recorded extant 1086

|St Cheus Monastery;
Old Kea Monastery

|{{PastScape|mnumber=428858 |mname=ST CHEUS MONASTERY|accessdate=13 October 2015}}

{{coord|50.2360144

5.0242536|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Kea Monastery (supposed site)}} (supposed)
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|Lammana Priory, Looe Island

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|Benedictine monks
founded 6th century;
Benedictine monks
cell dependent on Glastonbury and chapel;
founded before 1114;
disposed of by Glastonbury between 1239 and 1329;
chantry chapel of the Dawnay family before 1329;
dissolved 1549

|The Priory Church of St Michael, Lammana
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Lammana Chapel

|{{PastScape|mnumber=434853 |mname=LAMANNA CHAPEL|accessdate=14 April 2010}}

{{coord|50.336931

4.449143|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Lammana Priory}}
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|Lansallos Monastery

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|Celtic monksLansallos Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 133, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
patronised by St Ildierna

|St Salwys (St Alwys){{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

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|Lannachebran Cell, St Keverne

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|monks
founded c.6th centuryLannachebran Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", pp. 117–8, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925 and W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum v, p. 682 under the tutelage of St Achebran;
secular collegiate
refounded before 1086;
Cistercian monks
grange dependent on Beaulieu, Hampshire;
founded before 1263;
dissolved 1527; granted to Francis, Earl of Bedford 1559/60

|St Keiran's Monastery;
St Keverne's Monastery;
Lanachebran Monastery

|{{PastScape|mnumber=427343 |mname=|accessdate=13 October 2015}}


{{coord| 50.0507186

5.0868201|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Lannachebran Cell}}
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|Launcells Priory

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|Celtic monksLauncells Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 136, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
secular at Norman Conquest
Augustinian Canons Regular

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|Launceston Friary(?)

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|FriarsLaunceston Friary — T. Tanner, Notitia Monastica p. 72, cites mention of friary in addition to the abbey or priory by Mr Carew, Survey of Cornwall, f.81b/f.116b

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|Launceston Priory, earlier site

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|monks or secular
founded before c.830;
secular canons to c.1126

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|Launceston Priory +

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|Augustinian Canons Regular
founded 1127;
dissolved 1539;
restored 1871;
in parochial use as the Church of St Thomas the Apostle

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|{{PastScape|mnumber=619686 |mname=CHURCH OF ST. THOMAS|accessdate=13 October 2015}}

{{coord|50.6412046

4.3661374|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Launceston Priory}}
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|Lanwethinoc Monastery~, Padstow

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|Celtic monks
founded by Bishop Wethinoc;
site possibly occupied by the medieval Church of St Petroc at Padstow

|Lanuthinoc Monastery;
St Petroc's Church;
Petroc-stow Monastery;
Padstow Monastery

|{{PastScape|mnumber=430853 |mname=ST PETROCS CHURCH |accessdate=14 April 2010}}

{{coord|50.5412334

4.9429464|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Lanwethinoc Priory (possible site)}} (possible)
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|Madron Monastery

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|Celtic monks
before 12th century

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|{{PastScape|mnumber=1269449 |mname=|accessdate=13 October 2015}}

{{coord|50.1315902

5.5646825|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Madron Monastery (approx.)}} (approx)
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|Manaccan Monastery

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|Celtic monks

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|{{PastScape|mnumber=426979 |mname=CHURCH OF ST MANACCA|accessdate=13 October 2015}}

{{coord|50.0824805

5.1264954|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Manaccan Monastery (approx.)}} (approx)
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|Mawgan in Pydar Franciscan Monastery *

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|Franciscan monks

|The Franciscan Monastery of St Joseph and St Anne, St Mawgan in Pydar

|{{cite web|author=RJW |url=http://www.know-britain.com/worship/cornwall/catholic/franciscan_monastery_ss_joseph_anne_st_mawgan_in_pydar.html |title=Franciscan Monastery of Ss. Joseph and Anne, St. Mawgan in Pydar, Catholic Churches in Cornwall, England |publisher=Know-britain.com |accessdate=14 April 2010}}

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|Minster Priory +

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|Celtic monks?
founded before 1066;
Benedictine monks
alien house: daughter house of the Abbey of St. Sergius, Angers
founded before 1190 by William de Bottreaux;
dissolved before 1407;
slight remains of priory near the medieval parochial church

|The Priory Church of Saint Materiana, Minster

St Mertherian
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Talcarne Priory;
Minster Cell

|{{PastScape|mnumber=434767 |mname=St Merthianas Church And Minster Priory|accessdate=14 April 2010}}

{{coord|50.6831697

4.6757019|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Minster Priory}}
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|Paul Grange

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|Cistercian monks
grange(?) dependent on Hailes, Gloucestershire;
founded c.1300(?)

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|Probus Monastery

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|Celtic monks or secular
founded 924, purportedly by King Athelstan;
dissolved 940;
secular canons collegiate
founded before 1086 (or during the reign of Henry I, who granted the church to Exeter Cathedral 1120);
dissolved 1549

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|{{PastScape|mnumber=429732 |mname=|accessdate=14 April 2010}}{{PastScape|mnumber=428685 |mname=ST PROBUS AND GRACES CHURCH|accessdate=13 October 2015}}

{{coord|50.2957206

4.9442554|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Probabus Monastery (site)}}
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|Rialton Grange #

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|Augustinian Canons Regular
chief manor or grange of Bodmin;
manor house built 15th century

|Rieltone Grange

|{{PastScape|mnumber=429360 |mname=RIALTON MANOR|accessdate=13 October 2015}}

{{coord|50.4203929

5.0319099|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Rialton Grange (approx.)}} (approx)
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|St Anthony's Monastery, St Anthony-in-Meneage

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|Celtic monksSt Anthony-in-Meneage Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 55, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
Benedictine monks
alien house: grange of St-Serge, Angers;
founded from Brittany?;
became parochial after 1066;
became a grange of Tywardreath before mid-12th century (though referred to as a cell);
founded after 1088;
dissolved after 1381

|Lantenning Monastery

|{{PastScape|mnumber=426985 |mname=|accessdate=13 October 2015}}

{{coord|50.0827008

5.1089859|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=St Anthony's Monastery (approx.)}} (approx)
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|St Anthony-in-Roseland Priory ^

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|Augustinian Canons Regular
priory cell dependent on Plympton, Devon
founded before 1288;
dissolved 1538;
remains incorporated into house named 'Place House' built on site 16th Century

|St Anthony-in-Roseland Cell

|{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50757#s2 |title=Anthony, St — Appledram | British History Online |publisher=British-history.ac.uk |date=22 June 2003 |accessdate=14 April 2010}}

{{coord|50.1480864

5.0135422|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=St Anthony-in-Roseland Priory (approx.)}} (approx)
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|St Buryan's Monastery, St Buryan

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|Celtic monks
secular collegiate
founded c.930, purportedly by King Athelstan;
dissolved 1545;
parish church (SS Andrew, Thomas the Martyr, Nicholas and Beriana) on site rebuilt 13th century, though mostly now 15th century

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|{{PastScape|mnumber=422495 |mname=Church of Ss Andrew, Thomas The Martyr, Nicholas And Beriana|accessdate=13 October 2015}}

{{coord|50.0619878

5.6483459|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=St Buryan's Monastery (approx.)}} (approx)
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|St Carrok's Monastery #, St Winnow

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|Celtic monksSt Carrok's Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 213, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
dissolved/destroyed before 1086?: seized by Robert, Count of Mortain;
Cluniac monks
alien house: cell dependent on Montacute, Somerset;
founded 1100-40: granted to Montacute by William, son of Robert c.1100;
became denizen: independent from 1407;
dissolved 1537; granted to Laurence Courtney 1534/5

|St Carroc Monastery;
St Syriac's Monastery;
St Cyricus and St Julitta's Monastery;
St Cadix's Monastery;
St Syriac's Cell

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{{coord|50.382911

4.652753|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=St Carrok's Monastery (approx.)}} (approx)
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|St German's Priory +

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|Celtic monks
possibly founded 7th century;
secular canons
episcopal diocesan cathedral
founded c.936;
see transferred to new site at Crediton, Devon 1042;
monks or secular
founded 1042;
Augustinian Canons Regular
refounded 1184 (1161-87);
dissolved 2 March 1539; granted to Catherine Champernoun, John Ridgeway and others 1541/2;
now in use as parish church; remains of claustral buildings incorporated into Port Eliot House

|The Priory Church of Saint German, Saint Germans

|{{PastScape|mnumber=436605 |mname=ST GERMANS PRIORY|accessdate=13 October 2015}}

{{coord|50.396686

4.309699|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=St German's Priory}}
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|St Goran's Monastery, St Goran

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|Celtic monksSt Goran's Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 102, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
founded 6th century; patronised by St Goran in the time of St Petroc;
dissolved after 1083;
church and lands granted to the college of Glasney 1269

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|{{PastScape|mnumber=429911 |mname=ST GORANS CHURCH|accessdate=13 October 2015}}

{{coord|50.2430333

4.8010254|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=St Goran's Monastery}} (approx)
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|St Kew Cell ~

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|monksSt Kew's Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 119, Cornish Church Guide, 1928
founded 6th century (in the time of St Samson);
purported Augustinian cell
secular minster status confirmed by King Edgar, who granted land to the minster 961-3;
secular collegiate
clerks or secular canons until 1283;
Augustinian Secular Canons — from Plympton, Devon
until before 1283
church rebuilt 1496 and restored 1883

|St Daw (or St Docco)

Saint Kew (from 1440)

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{{coord|50.558147

4.794374|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=St Kew Monastery}}
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|St Matthew's Monastery

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|uncertain order and foundation

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|St Mawgan Monastery +

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|Celtic monksSt Mawgan/Lanherne Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 156, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
lands passed to the Bishop before 1085;
Cluniac monks;
Carmelite convent possibly built on site 16th century

|Lanherne Monastery;
St Mawgan in Pydar Monastery

|{{PastScape|mnumber=429177 |mname=LANHERNE CARMELITE CONVENT|accessdate=13 October 2015}}

{{coord|50.4625583

5.0253868|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=St Mawgan Monastery (approx.)}} (approx)
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|St Michael's Mount Priory +

|150px

|Saxon Benedictine? monks
8th century-11th century;
Benedictine monks
founded 1087-90;
church consecrated 1135;
alien house: dependent on Mont-St-Michel, Normandy
granted by Edward the Confessor to Mont-St-Michel before 1050;
seized during wars with the French 1362;
dissolved c.1414;
granted by Henry VI to King's College, Cambridge;
granted by Edward IV to Syon Abbey;
used alternately as fortress and monastery and private residence with public access; (NT)

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|{{cite web|author=St Michael's Mount |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/articles/2007/04/04/gardens_stmichaelsmount_feature.shtml |title=Cornwall — History — St Michael's Mount |publisher=BBC |date=15 April 2008 |accessdate=14 April 2010}}

{{coord|50.116387

5.478329|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=St Michael's Mount Priory}}
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|St Neot's Monastery, St Neot

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|Celtic monksSt Neot's Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", pp. 179–83, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
founded 6th century?;
dissolved after 1084

|Saint Aniet

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{{coord|50.474442

4.566211|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=St Neot's Monastery}}
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|St Piran's Monastery, Perranzabuloe

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|Celtic monks
founded 6th century?;
dissolved before c.1085

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|{{PastScape|mnumber=428173 |mname=|accessdate=13 October 2015}}

{{coord|50.3650105

5.1469231|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=St Piran's Monastery (approx.)}} (approx)
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|Saltash Monastery

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|uncertain order and foundation

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|Scilly Priory

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|Celtic monks, monastic cells
founded before 1066;
Benedictine monks
cell dependent on Tavistock, Devon;
founded before 1114;
dissolved c.1538;
Tresco Abbey Gardens created by Augustus Smith around the priory remains in 1834

|The Priory Church of St Nicholas, Scilly
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Tresco Cell

|{{cite web |author=Gardens in Cornwall |url=http://www.gardensincornwall.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=22 |title=Tresco Abbey Garden :: Gardens in Cornwall :: Gardens in Cornwall England UK |publisher=Gardens in Cornwall |date=24 February 2004 |accessdate=14 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717071233/http://www.gardensincornwall.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=22 |archivedate=17 July 2011}}

{{coord|49.9474643

6.328758|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Scilly Priory}}
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|Sclerder Abbey +

|150px

|Dames de la Retraite
founded c.1843; dissolved 1852;
Franciscan Recollects
founded 1858; dissolved 1864;
Carmelite
founded 1864; dissolved 1871;
Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary
founded 1904; dissolved 1910;
Minoresses — from Rennes 1914-1920;
Minoresses — from Bullingham 1922-1981;
Franciscan
c.1925;
Carmelite — from Quidenham 1981-2014;
Chemin Neuf 2014-; extant

|

|{{cite web|author=Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth |url=http://www.plymouth-diocese.org.uk/index.php?q=dir/parishes/cornwall/sclerder |title=Looe: Sclerder Abbey | R.C. Diocese of Plymouth |publisher=Plymouth-diocese.org.uk |accessdate=14 April 2010}}{{cite web|author=RJW |url=http://www.know-britain.com/worship/cornwall/catholic/sclerder_abbey_looe.html |title=Sclerder Abbey, Looe, Catholic Churches in Cornwall, England |publisher=Know-britain.com |accessdate=14 April 2010}}{{cite web |url=http://www.sclerder.talland.org/page2.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-09-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927175135/http://www.sclerder.talland.org/page2.html |archivedate=27 September 2007}}

{{coord|50.347987

4.505089|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Sclerder Abbey}}
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|Sele Priory

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|Benedictine monks
alien house: dependent on St-Florent-de-Saumur;
founded before 1126;
dissolved 1396

|

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|Temple property +

|150px

|Knights Templar
Knights Hospitaller

|

|

{{coord|50.530166

4.618571|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Temple property (approx.)}} (approx)
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|Temple Templars Preceptory #

|150px

|Knights Templar
founded 12th century;
dissolved 1308-12;
asserted to have become a preceptory of Knights HospitallersTemple Preceptory:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p.112

& 212, Cornish Church Guide, 1928 — (disputed)

|

|{{PastScape|mnumber=1226295 |mname=TEMPLE TEMPLARS PRECEPTORY|accessdate=14 April 2010}}

{{coord|50.4780253

4.3971598|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Temple Templars Preceptory (approx.)}} (approx)
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|Tintagel Monastery

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|remains interpreted as Celtic monastic
dependent on BodminTintagel Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", pp. 203–6, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925;
founded c.350;
popular tradition as medieval Benedictine nunnery: evidence lacking;
Norman castle built on site;
current academic consensus regards earlier settlement as secular

|

|[http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-596665/article-9072576 Tintagel (England, United Kingdom) — Britannica Online Encyclopedia]{{PastScape|mnumber=968312 |mname=|accessdate=14 April 2010}}Thomas, Charles (1993) Tintagel: Arthur and Archaeology. London: Batsford/English Heritage. (refuting work of C. A. R. Radford)

{{coord|50.6685911

4.7608405|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Tintagel Monastery}}
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|Trebeigh Preceptory #

|150px

|Knights Templar (purportedly);
Knights Hospitaller
founded before 1199 "by the bounty of" Henry de Pomeral and Reginald Marsh;
united with Ansty before 1432;
dissolved after 1557/8; granted to Henry Wilby and George Blythe 1573/4

|Treleigh Preceptory;
Turleigh Preceptory

|{{PastScape|mnumber=436700 |mname=Trebeigh Hospitallers Preceptory|accessdate=14 April 2010}}

{{coord|50.4793361

4.3917525|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Trebeigh Preceptory (site)}}
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|Tregonan Cell, St Ewe

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|Celtic monksTregonan Monastery:  cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 118, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
dependent on St Keverne's Monastery
founded 6th century;
dissolved 11th century

|

|{{PastScape|mnumber=1300763 |mname=|accessdate=13 October 2015}}

{{coord|50.0551549

5.0890732|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Tregonan Cell}} (approx)
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|Tregonan Grange

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|Cistercian monks grange of Beaulieu, Hampshire
founded before 1263;
dissolved before 1527;
"considerable remains" existing 1755 have since disappeared

|St Keverne Grange

|{{PastScape|mnumber=427243 |mname=TREGONAN GRANGE|accessdate=14 April 2010}}

{{coord|50.0521825

5.0901407|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Tregonan Grange (site)}}
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|Tregony Priory ~

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|Augustinian Canons Regular
alien house: priory cell dependent on Le Val, Bayeux;
founded before 1125(?);
granted to Merton, Surrey 1267

|The Priory Church of St James, Tregony
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Tregoney Priory

|{{PastScape|mnumber=429935 |mname=|accessdate=13 October 2015}}

{{coord|50.2663016

4.9174118|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Tregony Priory (approx.)}} (conjectured site)
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|Truro — Convent of the Epiphany ^

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|Community of the Epiphany, Anglican

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|Article by Richard Savill "Last surviving nun of 127-year-old order" (p.7) Daily Telegraph Tuesday 4 November 2008

{{coord|50.272468

5.059001|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Convent of the Epiphany, Truro}}
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|Truro Blackfriars

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|Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of London)
founded before 1259 (during the reign of Henry III) by the Reskimer family; (church consecrated 1259-60);
dissolved 1538; granted to Edward Anglianby 1553/4

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|{{PastScape|mnumber=428863 |mname=TRURO BLACKFRIARS |accessdate=14 April 2010}}

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5.0550118|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Truro Dominican Friary (site)}}
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|Tywardreath Priory

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|Benedictine monks
alien house: daughter house of St-Serge, Angers
founded c.1088 by Richard fitz Turold, Lord of Cardinham Castle, chief baron of Cornwall (or 1169 "by some noblemen", or 1135);
became denizen: independent c.1400;
dissolved 1536; granted to Edward, Earl of Hertford 1542/3

|St Andrew
____________________
Truwardraith Priory

|{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50652#s13 |title=Parishes — Talland — Tywardreth | British History Online |publisher=British-history.ac.uk |date=22 June 2003 |accessdate=14 April 2010}}{{PastScape|mnumber=431215 |mname=TYWARDREATH PRIORY |accessdate=14 April 2010}}

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Further reading

  • Oliver, George (1846) Monasticon Dioecesis Exoniensis: being a collection of records and instruments illustrating the ancient conventual, collegiate, and eleemosynary foundations, in the Counties of Cornwall and Devon, with historical notices, and a supplement, comprising a list of the dedications of churches in the Diocese, an amended edition of the taxation of Pope Nicholas, and an abstract of the Chantry Rolls [with supplement and index]. Exeter: P. A. Hannaford, 1846, 1854, 1889
  • Olson, Lynette (1989) Early Monasteries in Cornwall (Studies in Celtic History series). Woodbridge: Boydell Press {{ISBN|0-85115-478-6}}
  • Orme, Nicholas (2007) Cornwall and the Cross. Chichester: Phillimore; English Heritage
  • Orme, Nicholas (1996) English Church Dedications: with a Survey of Cornwall and Devon, University of Exeter Press {{ISBN|0-85989-516-5}}

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