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List of monastic houses in Gloucestershire

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{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.7158224|long=-2.4746811|label= Berkeley Abbey (poss.)|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Berkeley Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.8144419|long=-2.0862222|label= Brimpsfield Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Brimpsfield Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.8965029|long=-2.0739484|label= Cheltenham Minster|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Cheltenham Minster}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.7188218|long=-1.9693074|label= Cirencester Abbey|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Cirencester Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.9299244|long=-1.6487217|label= Daylesford Monastery (approx.)|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Daylesford Monastery}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.9679748|long=-2.1899271|label= Deerhurst Abbey|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Deerhurst Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.9598834|long=-1.9128764|label= Farmcote Grange|label_width=10|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Farmcote Grange}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.836111|long=-2.451944|label= Flaxley Abbey|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Flaxley Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.867549|long=-2.246590|label= GLOUCESTER (see below)|label_size=70|marksize=14|mark red pog.svg| position=right|}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.968333|long=-1.928056|label= Hailes Abbey|label_width=10|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=top|link=Hailes Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.6839778|long=-2.1039087|label= Hazleton Abbey|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Hazleton Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.6805453|long=-2.2357553|label= Horsley Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Horsley Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.6147656|long=-2.3741627|label= Kingswood Abbey (dubiously purported)|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Kingswood Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.6274217|long=-2.3727465|label= Kingswood Abbey (poss. early site)|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Kingswood Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.6265575|long=-2.3667893|label= Kingswood Abbey|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=top|link=Kingswood Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.6918164|long=-1.6934127|label= Lechlade Priory (approx.)|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Lechlade Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.7271943|long=-2.2879672|label= Leonard Stanley Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Leonard Stanley Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.8604393|long=-2.256875|label= Llanthony Secunda Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Llanthony Secunda}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.7057707|long=-2.1880656|label= Minchinhamption Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Minchinhamption Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.9313798|long=-2.4040747|label= Newent Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Newent Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.6989753|long=-1.8638939|label= Poulton Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Poulton Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.8175028|long=-2.1779108|label= Prinknash Abbey|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Prinknash Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.8224668|long=-2.1762264|label= Prinknash Abbey, former site|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Prinknash Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.7342911|long=-1.7869949|label= Quenington Preceptory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Quenington Preceptory}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.9413482|long=-1.8705082|label= Temple Guiting Preceptory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=bottom|link=Temple Guiting Preceptory}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.9349851|long=-1.8160808|label= Temple Guiting Grange|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=bottom|link=Temple Guiting Grange}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.6357561|long=-2.160337|label= Tetbury Monastery|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Tetbury Monastery}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.6356829|long=-2.1603316|label= Tetbury Abbey|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Tetbury Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.990338|long=-2.160594|label= Tewkesbury Abbey|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Tewkesbury Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.95292|long=-1.966612|label= Winchcombe Abbey|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=bottom|link=Winchcombe Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Gloucestershire|lat=51.6379835|long=-2.3525441|label= Wotton under Edge Friary|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Wotton under Edge Friary}}

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{{Location map~ |United Kingdom Gloucester Central|lat=51.8641066|long=-2.2486621|label= Blackfriars|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Gloucester Blackfriars}}

{{Location map~ |United Kingdom Gloucester Central|lat=51.8635898|long=-2.2462642|label= Greyfriars|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Gloucester Greyfriars}}

{{Location map~ |United Kingdom Gloucester Central|lat=51.8655244|long=-2.239784|label= Whitefriars|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Gloucester Whitefriars}}

{{Location map~ |United Kingdom Gloucester Central|lat=51.867549|long=-2.246590|label= Gloucester Cathedral Abbey|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Gloucester Cathedral Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |United Kingdom Gloucester Central|lat=51.8692815|long=-2.2476844|label= St. Oswald's Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester}}

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

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|Beckford Priory

|colspan=4|Historical county location. See entry under List of monastic houses in Worcestershire

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|Berkeley Abbey

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|nuns
founded before 807;
destroyed before 1051
secular collegiate
founded before 1066 (1019–1053) by Earl Godwin;
dissolved c.1135 or later (after 1338); granted to Reading, Berkshire;
current parochial church of St Mary possibly on site of minster or a property of the minster

|Berkeley Minster
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possibly Oldminster

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=111654 Pastscape — Detailed Result: OLDMINSTER][http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=201633 Pastscape — Detailed Result: ST MARYS CHURCH]

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|Bishop's Cleeve

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|minster and church of St Michael granted by Offa and Ealdred 768–79;
apparently annexed to the bishop or church of Worcester before 888

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|Blockley Monastery

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|Saxon monastery
founded before?855;
granted to Ealhun, Bishop of Worcester by Burhred, King of Mercia 855

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|{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43121#s2|title=Parishes - Blockley | A History of the County of Worcester: volume 3 (pp. 265-276)|publisher=british-history.ac.uk|accessdate=6 June 2014}}

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|Boxwell Priory

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|Benedictine nuns
possibly destroyed in raids by the DanesBoxwell Priory — destruction: J. Leland, Itinerary, iv, p.133; W. Dugdale; Monasticon Anglicanum

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|Brimpsfield Priory

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|Benedictine monks
founded before 1100;
alien house: (non-conventual: grange?), dependent on St Wandrille, Fontenay;
dissolved 1414 (before 1441); granted to Eton College, then to Windsor

|Brimpsfield Grange

|{{cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=117545 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120713010734/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=117545 |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 July 2012 |title=Pastscape — Detailed Result: BRIMPSFIELD GRANGE |publisher=Pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk |accessdate=7 April 2010 }}[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40283 Alien houses — The priory of Brimpsfield | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2 (pp. 102-103)]

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2.0862222|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Brimpsfield Priory}}
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|Cheltenham Minster

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|Anglo-Saxon minster here from 8th century onwards which was a monasterium or collegiate church as opposed to a monastery. Not to be confused with the more recent Cheltenham Minster, where St Mary's Parish Church was redesignated a Minster by the Bishop of Gloucester on Sunday 3 February 2013.

Reference to minster 803 founded before 803 (c.770: apparently extant for 30 years);
absorbed by Worcester ? before 890

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|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=117732 Pastscape — Detailed Result: MONUMENT NO. 117732]

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2.0739484|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Cheltenham Minster}}
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|Cirencester Abbey

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|Saxon minster — secular college
founded before 839 (during the reign of Egbert, King of Wessex) by Alwin;
Augustinian Canons Regular
founded (1117Cirencester: building commenced-)1131Cirencester: first abbot of consecrated by Henry I;
dissolved 19 December 1539; granted to Sir Thomas Seymour 1547;
granted to Richard Masters 1563/4;
site now within a public park;
house named 'Abbey House' built on site

|The Blessed Virgin Mary

|{{cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=327340 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120714223121/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=327340 |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 July 2012 |title=Pastscape — Detailed Result: CIRENCESTER ABBEY |publisher=Pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk |accessdate=7 April 2010 }}[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40274 Houses of Augustinian canons — The abbey of Cirencester | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2 (pp. 79-84)]

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1.9693074|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Cirencester Abbey}}
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|Daylesford Monastery

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|founded 718 (? 727) by Begia (Baegia), land granted by Æthelbald, King of Mercia;
granted to Worcester by Beorhtwulf 841;
later claimed by Evesham
dissolved

|Daeglesford Priory

|[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43133 Parishes — Daylesford | A History of the County of Worcester: volume 3 (pp. 334-338)]

{{coord|51.9299244

1.6487217|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Daylesford Monastery (approx.)}} (approx)
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|Deerhurst Abbey +

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|Saxon minster
founded late-7th century;
Benedictine? monks
founded after 715 purportedly by Dodo (co-founder of Tewkesbury);
destroyed? c.878;
Benedictine monks
rebuilt/(re)founded c.970 by St Oswald;
destroyed c.975;
alien house: dependent on St-Denis
rebuilt before 1056, purportedly by Edward the Confessor, who granted it to St-Denis c.1059 — alien priory;
became denizen: independent from 1443;
granted to Eton College c.1447;
restored to St Denis, for English monks 1461;
secular chaplain without monks 1467;
granted as cell to Tewkesbury;
dissolved 1540;
conventual church in parochial use as the Parish Church of St Mary

|St Mary the Virgin

St Mary the Virgin and St Denis
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Derehures Abbey

|{{cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=115651 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712163527/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=115651 |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 July 2012 |title=Pastscape — Detailed Result: PRIORY FARMHOUSE |publisher=Pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk |accessdate=7 April 2010 }}{{cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=115622 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120802012742/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=115622 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 August 2012 |title=Pastscape — Detailed Result: ST MARYS CHURCH |publisher=Pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk |date=7 July 1999 |accessdate=7 April 2010 }}{{cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1312045 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120714112512/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1312045 |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 July 2012 |title=Pastscape — Detailed Result: DEERHURST MONASTERY |publisher=Pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk |accessdate=7 April 2010 }}
{{cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1312056 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120713191136/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1312056 |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 July 2012 |title=Pastscape — Detailed Result: DEERHURST PRIORY |publisher=Pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk |accessdate=7 April 2010 }}[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40284 Alien houses — The priory of Deerhurst | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2 (pp. 103-105)]

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2.1899271|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Deerhurst Abbey}}
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|Farmcote Grange

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|Cistercian monks
grange of Hailes Abbey

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|{{cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=327768 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120718004416/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=327768 |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 July 2012 |title=Pastscape — Detailed Result: FARMCOTE |publisher=Pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk |accessdate=7 April 2010 }}{{cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=763610 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730113907/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=763610 |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 July 2012 |title=Pastscape — Detailed Result: ST FAITHS CHURCH |publisher=Pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk |accessdate=7 April 2010 }}

{{coord|51.9598834

1.9128764|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Farmcote Grange}}
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|Flaxley Abbey +

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|Cistercian monks
daughter house of Bordesley, Worcestershire
founded 30 September 1151 by Roger, Earl of Hereford;
dissolved 1536–7; granted to Sir Anthony Kingston 1544/5;
remains now incorporated into a private house without public access

|The Blessed Virgin Mary
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Flexley Abbey;
Dene Abbey

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=111720 Pastscape — Detailed Result: FLAXLEY ABBEY][http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40279 Houses of Cistercian monks — The abbey of Flaxley | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2 (pp. 93-96)]

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2.451944|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Flaxley Abbey}}
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|Gloucester Blackfriars

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|Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Oxford)
founded 1239 (before 1241) by Sir Stephen de Hermshall (or by Henry III) and consecrated 1284;
dissolved 1538; granted to Thomas Bell 1539/40, who made it a drapering house

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|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=115340 Pastscape — Detailed Result: GLOUCESTER BLACKFRIARS][http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40288#s1 Friaries — Gloucester | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2 (pp. 111-112)]

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|Gloucester Greyfriars

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|Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Bristol)
founded before 1230 (1231), granted by Lord Berkley, under the guidance of Agnellus of Pisa, with timber provided by Henry III;
dissolved 1538; granted to John Jennings 1543/4;
church converted into a brewery

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|{{cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1044785 |title=Pastscape — Detailed Result: GLOUCESTER GREYFRIARS |publisher=Pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk |date=15 December 1998 |accessdate=7 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100406234102/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1044785 |archive-date=6 April 2010 |url-status=dead}}[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40288#s2 Friaries — Gloucester | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2 (pp. 111-112)]

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|Gloucester Whitefriars #

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|Carmelite Friars
founded before 1268 (during the reign of Henry III) purportedly by Queen Eleanor, Sir Thomas Gifford and Sir Thomas Berkley;
dissolved c.25 July 1538; granted to Richard Andrews and Nicholas Temple 1543/4

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|{{cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1356136 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120715085238/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1356136 |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 July 2012 |title=Pastscape — Detailed Result: GLOUCESTER WHITEFRIARS |publisher=Pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk |accessdate=7 April 2010 }}[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40288#s3 Friaries — Gloucester | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2 (pp. 111-112)]

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|Gloucester Cathedral Abbey +

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|Benedictine monks and nuns — double house
founded before 679 (c.681) by Wulfhere, King of Mercia and his brother and successor Æthelred;
destroyed in raids by the Danes after 767;
secular canons minster
founded before 823 (c.823-5);
Benedictine monks
founded c1022;
Benedictine monks
refounded c.1058;
dissolved 2 January 1540;
granted to the Bishop and officers of Gloucester;
conventual church becoming an episcopal diocesan cathedral
founded 1541; extant

|The Abbey Church of Saint Peter, Gloucester

The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity in Gloucester (1541)

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=115512 Pastscape — Detailed Result: GLOUCESTER ABBEY][http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=115498 Pastscape — Detailed Result: GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL][http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=115502 Pastscape — Detailed Result: THE GREAT CLOISTERS]
[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40268 Houses of Benedictine monks — The abbey of St Peter at Gloucester | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2 (pp. 53-61)][http://www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk/ Gloucester Cathedral — Home]

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2.246590|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Gloucester Cathedral Abbey}}
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|St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester

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|church of secular canons
traditionally founded 660 by a son of Penda of Mercia;
Augustinian Canons Regular
founded 890s/refounded 909 by Æthelflæd/Æthelflæda and her husband Æthelred, ealdorman of Mercia;
founded before 1153 as a priory by Henry Murdac, Archbishop of York;
granted to John Jennings 1539/40;
subsequently in parochial use as the Parish Church of St Catherine; destroyed 1643

|St Oswald, King and Martyr

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1119912 Pastscape — Detailed Result: ST OSWALDS PRIORY][http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40275 Houses of Augustinian canons — The priory of St Oswald, Gloucester | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2 (pp. 84-87)]

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|Hailes Abbey

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|Cistercian monks — from Beaulieu, Hampshire
founded 17 July 1246 (1245) by Richard, Earl of Cornwall;
dissolved 24 December 1539;
granted to Sir Thomas Seymour 1547;
granted to William, Marquis of Northampton 1550; (NT)

|The Blessed Virgin Mary
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Hayles Abbey;
Tray Abbey

|{{cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=328158 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120719025023/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=328158 |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 July 2012 |title=Pastscape — Detailed Result: HAILES ABBEY |publisher=Pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk |accessdate=7 April 2010 }}[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40280 Houses of Cistercian monks — The abbey of Hayles | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2 (pp. 96-99)]

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|Hatherop Priory

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|Carthusian Monks
founded 1222
transferred to Hinton 1227–32

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|Hazleton Abbey

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|Cistercian monks
daughter house of Tintern, Monmouthshire;
(community founded at Kingswood earlier site 7 September 1139);
transferred from Kingswood c.1149-50;
dissolved c.1150-4; transferred to Tetbury; (EH)

|The Blessed Virgin Mary

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=212781 Pastscape — Detailed Result: HAZELTON PRIORY]

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|Horsley Priory ^

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|Benedictine monks
alien house: cell dependent on Troarn;
founded between 1066 and 1087 (during the reign of William the Conqueror) by Roger, Earl of Shrewsbury;
Augustinian Canons Regular
became denizen: cell granted to Bruton 1260;
vicarage 1380;
dissolved; granted to Sir Walter Denys of Dyrham 1553;
a prison late-18th century;
19th century parish church of St Mary now occupies the site or an area to the north;
other monastic buildings possibly currently in use as a hotel

|dedication unknown
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Horkeslegh Priory

|{{cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=209045 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120713084423/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=209045 |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 July 2012 |title=Pastscape — Detailed Result: HORSLEY PRIORY |publisher=Pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk |accessdate=7 April 2010 }}[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40277 Houses of Augustinian canons — The priory of Horsley | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2 (pp. 91-93)]

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2.2357553|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Horsley Priory}}
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|Kingswood Abbey, earlier site

|

|Cistercian Monks — from Tintern, Monmouthshire
daughter house of Tintern;
founded 7 September 1139 by William de Berkeley;
refounded 1164-70 on new site;
transferred to Hazleton 1149–50; this site retained as a grange;
dissolved 1 February 1538 and demolished; gatehouse remains; (EH)

|Kingswood Grange

|{{cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=205387 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121223215832/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=205387 |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 December 2012 |title=Pastscape — Detailed Result: KINGSWOOD ABBEY GATEHOUSE |publisher=Pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk |accessdate=7 April 2010 }}[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40281 Houses of Cistercian monks — The abbey of Kingswood | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2 (pp. 99-101)]

{{coord|51.6147656

2.3741627|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Kingswood Abbey (dubiously purported early site)}}
or
{{coord|51.6274217
2.3727465|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Kingswood Abbey (possible early site)}} (possible)
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|Kingswood Abbey

|150px

|Cistercian Monks — from Tintern, Monmouthshire
(community founded at Kingswood earlier site 7 September 1139);
transferred from Tetbury c.1164-70;
dissolved 1 February 1538

|

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=205387 Pastscape — Detailed Result: KINGSWOOD ABBEY GATEHOUSE]

{{coord|51.6265575

2.3667893|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Kingswood Abbey}}
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|Kinley Priory

|

|purportedly an ancient priory, lands seized by William the ConquerorKinley — W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum

|Kinline Priory

|

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|Lechlade Priory

|

|Augustinian Canons Regular
founded 13th century by Richard, Earl of Cornwall

|The Priory Church of Saint John the Baptist, Lechlade
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Lechelade Priory

|{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51099#s29 |title=Leach — Lechlade | British History Online |publisher=British-history.ac.uk |date=22 June 2003 |accessdate=7 April 2010}}

{{coord|51.6918164

1.6934127|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:10000|name=Lechlade Priory (approx.)}} (approx)
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|Leonard Stanley Priory +

|150px

|Benedictine monks
founded c.1130 by Roger de Berkeley II;
Augustinian Canons Regular
confirmed to Gloucester Abbey 1146;
dissolved 1538; granted to Sir Anthony Kingston
church now in parochial use

|The Priory Church of Saint Leonard of Stanley
____________________
Stanley St Leonard Priory;
Stanley Priory

|{{cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=115106 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120915082421/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=115106 |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 September 2012 |title=Pastscape — Detailed Result: LEONARD STANLEY PRIORY |publisher=Pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk |accessdate=7 April 2010 }}[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40271 Houses of Benedictine monks — The priory of Stanley St Leonard | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2 (pp. 72-73)]{{cite web|url=http://www.wospweb.com/site/Lechlade-Town/About-Lechlade.htm |title=Lechlade Town |publisher=Wospweb.com |accessdate=7 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202075809/http://www.wospweb.com/site/Lechlade-Town/About-Lechlade.htm |archivedate=2 December 2008 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/gaz/gloucs.html#L |title=Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs to 1516: Gloucestershire |publisher=History.ac.uk |date=26 February 2007 |accessdate=7 April 2010}}

{{coord|51.7271943

2.2879672|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Leonard Stanley Priory}}
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|Llanthony Secunda Priory

|150px

|Augustinian Canons Regular — from Llanthony, Wales
daughter house of Llanthony
founded 1136 at the instance of Robert, Bishop of Gloucester on a site granted by Miles (Milo) of Gloucester, Earl of Hereford; built by the prior and canons at Llanthony Priory;
dissolved 1538; granted to Sir Arthur Porter 1540/1

|The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Lantony Priory;
Lanthony Priory

|{{cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=115329 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729184826/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=115329 |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 July 2012 |title=Pastscape — Detailed Result: LLANTHONY PRIORY |publisher=Pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk |accessdate=7 April 2010 }}[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40276 Houses of Augustinian canons — The priory of Lanthony by Gloucester | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2 (pp. 87-91)]

{{coord|51.8604393

2.256875|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Llanthony Secunda Priory}}
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|Minchinhampton Priory

|

|Benedictine nuns
alien house: dependent on Holy Trinity, Caen;
probably a grange: no evidence of nuns resident;
granted to the nuns (or minchins) of Holy Trinity, Caen 1082 by William the Conqueror;
leased before 1192;
forfeit 14th century;
reverted to the Crown 1414;
granted to Syon Abbey 1424;
granted to Andrews, Lord Windsor 1542/3;

|Minchin Hampton Priory

|{{cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=115074 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120728193550/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=115074 |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 July 2012 |title=Pastscape — Detailed Result: MONUMENT NO. 115074 |publisher=Pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk |accessdate=7 April 2010 }}[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51002#s22 Hampstead — Hampton-Wick | A Topographical Dictionary of England (pp. 391-396)]

{{coord|51.7057707

2.1880656|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Minchinhamption Priory}}
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|Minsterworth

|

|Saxon minster

|

|

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|Newent Priory

|

|Benedictine monks
alien house: dependent on Cormeilles Priory, Normandy;
founded before 1086 by William fitz Osbern;
dissolved 1411 by Henry IV; granted to Fotheringay College; granted to Sir Richard Lee 1547;
St Mary's Parish church possibly the Priory Church

|The Blessed Virgin Mary
____________________
Noent Priory;
Newenton Priory

|{{cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=113380 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120723004726/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=113380 |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 July 2012 |title=Pastscape — Detailed Result: NEWENT PRIORY |publisher=Pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk |accessdate=7 April 2010 }}[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40285 Alien houses — The priory of Newent | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2 (pp. 105-106)]

{{coord|51.9313798

2.4040747|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Newent Priory}}
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|Poulton Priory

|

|chantry chapel
founded 1348 by Sir Thomas Seymour;
Gilbertine Canons
founded 1350;
dissolved 1539;
conventual church becoming the parish church
demolished and replaced 1873;
monastic remains incorporated into a wall at Priory Farm on site

|The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Poulton

|{{cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=327300 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712055341/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=327300 |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 July 2012 |title=Pastscape — Detailed Result: POULTON PRIORY |publisher=Pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk |accessdate=7 April 2010 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=36544 |title=Houses of Gilbertine canons — Priory of St Mary, Poulton | British History Online |publisher=British-history.ac.uk |date=22 June 2003 |accessdate=7 April 2010}}

{{coord|51.6989753

1.8638939|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Poulton Priory}}
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|Prinknash Abbey *

|150px

|Benedictine monks
founded 1928 at St Peter's Grange;
transferred to new abbey 1972 (see immediately below);
transferred back to St Peter's Grange 29 June 2008; extant

|

|[http://www.prinknashabbey.org/ Prinknash Abbey]

{{coord|51.8175028

2.1779108|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Prinknash Abbey}}
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|Prinknash Abbey — former site

|150px

|Benedictine monks
(community founded 1928 at St Peter's Grange);
transferred here 1972;
transferred back to St Peter's Grange 29 June 2008 (see immediately above)

|

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=115529 Pastscape — Detailed Result: PRINKNASH PARK AND ST PETERS CHAPEL]

{{coord|51.8224668

2.1762264|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Prinknash Abbey — former site}}
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|Quenington Preceptory

|

|Knights Hospitaller
founded between 1144 and 1162 by Walter, the first Prior of the Order in England by the bounty of Agnes de Lacy and her daughter;
dissolved 1540; granted to Sir Richard Morisine and Sir Anthony Kingston 1545/6;
demolished 17th century;
site now occupied by Quenington House

|Queinington Preceptory

|{{cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=329836 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730230331/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=329836 |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 July 2012 |title=Pastscape — Detailed Result: QUENINGTON COURT |publisher=Pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk |accessdate=7 April 2010 }}[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40291 House of Knights Hospitallers — The preceptory of Quenington | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2 (pp. 113)]

{{coord|51.7342911

1.7869949|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Quenington Preceptory}}
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|St Briavels Chantry

|

|hermitage
Cistercian monks
chantry dependent on Grace Dieu;
founded c.1361, granted to Grace DieuSt Briavels — W. Dugdale; Monasticon Anglicanum; dissolution unknown

|

|

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|Temple Guiting Preceptory

|

|Knights Templar
founded c.1150, lands granted by Gilbert de Lacy and Roger de Waterville; benefactors included Roger, Earl of Hereford, and Roger d'Oilly;
dissolved 1308–1311;
possibly in ownership of Knights Hospitallers after 1338, but neither used as preceptory or camera

|Guiting Preceptory

|{{cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=327734 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120717154857/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=327734 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 July 2012 |title=Pastscape — Detailed Result: TEMPLE GUITING TEMPLARS PRECEPTORY |publisher=Pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk |accessdate=7 April 2010 }}[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40290 House of Knights Templars — The preceptory of Guiting | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2 (pp. 113)]

{{coord|51.9413482

1.8705082|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Temple Guiting Preceptory}}
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|Temple Guiting Grange

|

|possible Knights Templars grange of Temple Guiting Preceptory

|

|{{cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=330239 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120716072637/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=330239 |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 July 2012 |title=Pastscape — Detailed Result: MONUMENT NO. 330239 |publisher=Pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk |date=1 April 1946 |accessdate=7 April 2010 }}

{{coord|51.9349851

1.8160808|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Temple Guiting Grange}}
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|Tetbury Monastery

|

|Saxon monastery
founded before 680; land granted by King Æthelred of Mercia;
site possibly near current after-medieval parish church of St Mary Magdalene (built on the site of a medieval church)

|Tettan Monastery

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=209129 Pastscape — Detailed Result: MONUMENT NO. 209129][http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=19147 Tetbury — Church | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 11 (pp. 277-280)]

{{coord|51.6357561

2.160337|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Tetbury Monastery}}
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|Tetbury Abbey

|

|Cistercian monks
(community founded at Kingswood earlier site 7 September 1139);
transferred from Hazleton c.1150-4 (1148–54);
site found to be unsuitable;
transferred to Kingswood c.1164-70;
monastic remains apparently incorporated into current residences in Tetbury

|The Blessed Virgin Mary

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=209138 Pastscape — Detailed Result: TETBURY ABBEY]

{{coord|51.6356829

2.1603316|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Tetbury Abbey}}
valign=top

|Tewkesbury Abbey +

|150px

|hermitage of Theokus
Benedictine? monks
cell dependent on Cranborne;
founded c.715 by Dodo, Saxon lord;
destroyed? in raids by the Danes 9th century;
cell refounded c.980;
enlarged by Robert RitzHaimon 1102;
transferred from Cranborne 1102;
raised to abbey status 1102;
dissolved 9 January 1540; granted to Thomas Strowde, Walter Erie and James Paget 1544/5;
now in parochial use

|The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Tewkesbury
____________________
Theokesbury Abbey

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=115790 Pastscape — Detailed Result: TEWKESBURY ABBEY][http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40269 Houses of Benedictine monks — The abbey of Tewkesbury | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2 (pp. 61-66)]

{{coord|51.990338

2.160594|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Tewkesbury Abbey}}
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|Twyinging Monastery

|

|Saxon monastery
founded before c.770 (during(?) the tenure of Mildred, Bishop of Worcester);
granted to Worcester c.800 or 814

|Bituinaeum Monastery;
Ad Tuueoneaam

|

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|Winchcombe Nunnery

|rowspan=2|

|nuns
founded 787 by Offa;
Benedictine foundation built on site (see immediately below)

|

|[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40270 Houses of Benedictine monks — The abbey of Winchcombe | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2 (pp. 66-72)]

{{coord|51.95310

1.966700|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Winchcombe Nunnery}}
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|Winchcombe Abbey

|Benedictine monks
founded 798 by King Ranulph on site of a nunnery (see immediately above);
secular
founded 9th century?;
raised to abbey status c.969;
destroyed by fire 1151; rebuilt and rededicated 1239;
dissolved 1540; granted to Sir Thomas Seymour 1547/8;
abbot's house used as parish workhouse;
demolished 1815

|The Abbey Church of St Mary and St Kenelm, Winchcombe
____________________
Winchcombe Priory
Winchelcombe Abbey

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=327803 Pastscape — Detailed Result: WINCHCOMBE ABBEY]

{{coord|51.95292

1.966612|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Winchcombe Abbey}}
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|Withington Monastery

|

|Saxon monastery
founded between 674 and 704?: site granted to Abbess Dunna and her daughter Bucga for monastery by viceroy Oshere, with the consent of King Æthelred of Mercia
dissolved after early-9th century

|

|

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|Woodchester Monastery

|

|religious house purportedly built by Gueta, wife of Earl GodwinWoodchester Monastery — T. Tanner, Notitia Monastica, p.145, citing W. Camden, Britannia, (1695), p.247

|

|

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|Wotton under Edge Friary

|

|Crutched Friars
founded 1349(?) (1347): licence for foundation granted by Edward III 1349;
dissolution unknown, probably after only a few years

|

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=205338 Pastscape — Detailed Result: WOOTTON UNDER EDGE FRIARY][http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40289 Friaries — The crutched friars of Wotton-under-Edge | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2 (pp. 112)]

{{coord|51.6379835

2.3525441|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Wotton under Edge Friary}}
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|Yate Monastery

|

|Saxon monastery
founded 777-9?: land granted to St Mary's, Worcester between 777 and 779;
dissolved after early-9th century; absorbed by Worcester c.888?Yate Monastery — Victoria County History Volume 2, p.2 and note n.

|

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