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 | |probable monastery |Altarnun Monastery |{{PastScape|mnumber=436380 |mname=|accessdate=13 October 2015}} |
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* | |Augustinian Canons Regular (Canons Regular of the Lateran | |[http://stmarysbodmin.org.uk/st-marys-bodmin/ St Mary's, Bodmin « The Catholic Parish of St Mary & St Petroc, Bodmin] |
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|Bodmin Blackfriars | |probable mistaken reference to Bodmin Greyfriars | | |
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| |Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Bristol) |Bodmin Greyfriars |{{PastScape|mnumber=431317 |mname=BODMIN GREYFRIARS|accessdate=14 April 2010}} |
4.7196311|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Bodmin Friary (site)}} |
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| |Celtic monks |Bodmin Monastery; |{{PastScape|mnumber=431308 |mname=BODMIN PRIORY|accessdate=14 April 2010}} |
4.7156829|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Bodmin Priory}} |
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|Breage Grange | |Cistercian monks | | |
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| |purported medieval monastery | |{{PastScape|mnumber=432616 |mname=|accessdate=14 April 2010}} |
4.651401|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Cardinham Grange (possible site)}} (possible) |
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|Constantyne Monastery | |Celtic monks | | |
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| |Celtic monks |St Corontocus |{{PastScape|mnumber=428452 |mname=CRANTOCK|accessdate=13 October 2015}} |
5.1119927|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Crantock Monastery}} |
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|Dingerein Monastery | |Celtic monks |Dinurrin Monastery | |
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|Gulval Monastery | |Celtic monks |Dinurrin Monastery | |
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| |Celtic monks |St Cheus Monastery; |{{PastScape|mnumber=428858 |mname=ST CHEUS MONASTERY|accessdate=13 October 2015}} |
5.0242536|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Kea Monastery (supposed site)}} (supposed) |
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|Benedictine monks |The Priory Church of St Michael, Lammana |{{PastScape|mnumber=434853 |mname=LAMANNA CHAPEL|accessdate=14 April 2010}} |
4.449143|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Lammana Priory}} |
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|Lansallos Monastery | |Celtic monks |St Salwys (St Alwys){{citation needed|date=May 2020}} | |
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|Lannachebran Cell, St Keverne | |monks |St Keiran's Monastery; |{{PastScape|mnumber=427343 |mname=|accessdate=13 October 2015}} |
5.0868201|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Lannachebran Cell}} |
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|Launcells Priory | |Celtic monks | | |
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|Launceston Friary(?) | | | |
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|Launceston Priory, earlier site | |monks or secular | | |
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| |Augustinian Canons Regular | |{{PastScape|mnumber=619686 |mname=CHURCH OF ST. THOMAS|accessdate=13 October 2015}} |
4.3661374|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Launceston Priory}} |
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|Lanwethinoc Monastery~, Padstow | |Celtic monks |Lanuthinoc Monastery; |{{PastScape|mnumber=430853 |mname=ST PETROCS CHURCH |accessdate=14 April 2010}} |
4.9429464|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Lanwethinoc Priory (possible site)}} (possible) |
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| |Celtic monks | |{{PastScape|mnumber=1269449 |mname=|accessdate=13 October 2015}} |
5.5646825|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Madron Monastery (approx.)}} (approx) |
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| |Celtic monks | |{{PastScape|mnumber=426979 |mname=CHURCH OF ST MANACCA|accessdate=13 October 2015}} |
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 * | |Franciscan monks |The Franciscan Monastery of St Joseph and St Anne, St Mawgan in Pydar |
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| |Celtic monks? |The Priory Church of Saint Materiana, Minster |{{PastScape|mnumber=434767 |mname=St Merthianas Church And Minster Priory|accessdate=14 April 2010}} |
4.6757019|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Minster Priory}} |
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|Paul Grange | |Cistercian monks | | |
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| |Celtic monks or secular | |{{PastScape|mnumber=429732 |mname=|accessdate=14 April 2010}}{{PastScape|mnumber=428685 |mname=ST PROBUS AND GRACES CHURCH|accessdate=13 October 2015}} |
4.9442554|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Probabus Monastery (site)}} |
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| |Augustinian Canons Regular |Rieltone Grange |{{PastScape|mnumber=429360 |mname=RIALTON MANOR|accessdate=13 October 2015}} |
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 | |Celtic monks |Lantenning Monastery |{{PastScape|mnumber=426985 |mname=|accessdate=13 October 2015}} |
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 ^ | |Augustinian Canons Regular |St Anthony-in-Roseland Cell |
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 | |Celtic monks | |{{PastScape|mnumber=422495 |mname=Church of Ss Andrew, Thomas The Martyr, Nicholas And Beriana|accessdate=13 October 2015}} |
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 | |Celtic monks |St Carroc Monastery; | |
4.652753|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=St Carrok's Monastery (approx.)}} (approx) |
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|Celtic monks |The Priory Church of Saint German, Saint Germans |{{PastScape|mnumber=436605 |mname=ST GERMANS PRIORY|accessdate=13 October 2015}} |
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 | |Celtic monks | |{{PastScape|mnumber=429911 |mname=ST GORANS CHURCH|accessdate=13 October 2015}} |
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 ~ | |monks |St Daw (or St Docco) | |
4.794374|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=St Kew Monastery}} |
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|St Matthew's Monastery | |uncertain order and foundation | | |
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| |Celtic monks |Lanherne Monastery; |{{PastScape|mnumber=429177 |mname=LANHERNE CARMELITE CONVENT|accessdate=13 October 2015}} |
5.0253868|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=St Mawgan Monastery (approx.)}} (approx) |
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|Saxon Benedictine? monks | |
5.478329|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=St Michael's Mount Priory}} |
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| |Celtic monks |Saint Aniet | |
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 | |Celtic monks | |{{PastScape|mnumber=428173 |mname=|accessdate=13 October 2015}} |
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 | |uncertain order and foundation | | |
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| |Celtic monks, monastic cells |The Priory Church of St Nicholas, Scilly |
6.328758|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Scilly Priory}} |
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|Dames de la Retraite | |{{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}} |
4.505089|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Sclerder Abbey}} |
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|Sele Priory | |Benedictine monks | | |
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|Temple property + |Knights Templar | | |
4.618571|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Temple property (approx.)}} (approx) |
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|Knights Templar & 212, Cornish Church Guide, 1928 — (disputed) | |{{PastScape|mnumber=1226295 |mname=TEMPLE TEMPLARS PRECEPTORY|accessdate=14 April 2010}} |
4.3971598|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Temple Templars Preceptory (approx.)}} (approx) |
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| |remains interpreted as Celtic monastic | |[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) |
4.7608405|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Tintagel Monastery}} |
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|Knights Templar (purportedly); |Treleigh Preceptory; |{{PastScape|mnumber=436700 |mname=Trebeigh Hospitallers Preceptory|accessdate=14 April 2010}} |
4.3917525|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Trebeigh Preceptory (site)}} |
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| |Celtic monks | |{{PastScape|mnumber=1300763 |mname=|accessdate=13 October 2015}} |
5.0890732|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Tregonan Cell}} (approx) |
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| |Cistercian monks grange of Beaulieu, Hampshire |St Keverne Grange |{{PastScape|mnumber=427243 |mname=TREGONAN GRANGE|accessdate=14 April 2010}} |
5.0901407|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Tregonan Grange (site)}} |
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| |Augustinian Canons Regular |The Priory Church of St James, Tregony |{{PastScape|mnumber=429935 |mname=|accessdate=13 October 2015}} |
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 ^ | |Community of the Epiphany, Anglican | |Article by Richard Savill "Last surviving nun of 127-year-old order" (p.7) Daily Telegraph Tuesday 4 November 2008 |
5.059001|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Convent of the Epiphany, Truro}} |
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| |Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of London) | |{{PastScape|mnumber=428863 |mname=TRURO BLACKFRIARS |accessdate=14 April 2010}} |
5.0550118|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Truro Dominican Friary (site)}} |
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| |Benedictine monks |St Andrew |{{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}} |
4.6939087|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Tywardreath Priory}} |
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See also
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Notes
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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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