List of monastic houses in Hertfordshire
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{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.7994861|long=-0.5594015| label= Ashridge Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position= left |link=Ashridge Priory}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.6937151|long=-0.1248515|label= Cathale Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Cathale Priory}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.7175606|long=-0.0189042|label= Cheshunt Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Cheshunt Priory}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.8190829|long=-0.4848549|label= Flamstead Priory, poss. site|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Flamstead Priory}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.7996884|long=-0.0752467|label= Hertford Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Hertford Priory}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.7998377|long=-0.0726154|label= Hertford Trinitarian Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Hertford Trinitarian Priory}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.9450982|long=-0.2789497|label= Hitchin Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Hitchin Priory}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.7915385|long=-0.5193266|label= Ivinghoe (Muresley) Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=bottom|link=Ivinghoe (Muresley) Priory}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.7126665|long=-0.4603207|label= King's Langley Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=King's Langley Priory}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.8438715|long=-0.4644084|label= Markyate Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Markyate Priory}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.9483783|long=-0.2753663|label= New Biggin Priory|label_size=70|label_width=10|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=New Biggin Priory}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.7976863|long=-0.3949338|label= Redbourn Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Redbourn Priory}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.8643534|long=-0.0440311|label= Rowney Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Rowney Priory}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=52.0478389|long=-0.0216722|label= Royston Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Royston Priory}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.750620|long=-0.342915|label= St Albans Cathedral Abbey|label_size=70|label_width=14|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=St Albans Cathedral Abbey}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.7610853|long=-0.3680487|label= St Mary de Pre Priory (poss. site)|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=St Mary de Pre Priory}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.8122896|long=0.1528537|label= Sawbridgeworth Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=bottom|link=Sawbridgeworth Priory}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.7441505|long=-0.3347263|label= Sopwell Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=bottom|link=Sopwell Priory}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.8806611|long=-0.0109112|label= Standon Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Standon Priory}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.9091745|long=-0.2830938|label= Temple Dinsley Preceptory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Temple Dinsley Preceptory}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.8120442|long=-0.0332218|label= Ware Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Ware Priory}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.8110625|long=-0.0350833|label= Ware Friary|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Ware Friary}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.735135|long=-0.0388438|label= Wormley Priory|label_size=70|label_width=10|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Wormley Priory}}
{{Location map~ |Hertfordshire|lat=51.9377104|long=-0.2282989|label= Wymondley Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=bottom|link=Wymondley Priory}}
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The following is a list of the monastic houses in Hertfordshire, England.
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| | monastery or college of the Precious Blood; Bonshommes monks founded 1283 by Edmund, Earl of Cornwall; dissolved 16 November 1539 | the Precious Blood
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| 0.5594015|format=dms|region:GB_type:landmark_scale:2000_source:wikimapia|name=Ashridge Priory}}}} | ||
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|Barden Priory? | | Augustinian Canons Regular possibly Berden, Essex or the hospital at Bigging (Berdene in Anstey) | St Mary
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|Cathale Priory | | Benedictine nuns founded before 1189(?) (c.1200) probably by William de Mandeville; dissolved before 1240; granted to the nuns of Cheshunt by Henry de Bohun; canons removed; chapel survived to 1613 when land acquired by James I; chapel remains extant 1830s |
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| 0.1248515|format=dms|region:GB_type:landmark_scale:2000_source:wikimapia|name=Cathale Priory}}}} | ||
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| | Benedictine nuns founded before 1183; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir Anthony Deny 1536/7 | Cestrehunt Priory; Chesthunt Priory
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| 0.0189042|format=dms|region:GB_type:landmark_scale:2000_source:wikimapia|name=Cheshunt Priory}}}} | ||
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| | Benedictine nuns founded c.1150 (during the reign of Stephen) by Roger de Toney; dissolved 1537; granted to Sir Richard Page 1539/40; site now occupied by Beechwood Park School | Flamsted Priory
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| 0.4848549|format=dms|region:GB_type:landmark_scale:2000_source:wikimapia|name=Flamstead Priory - poss. site}} (possible)}} | ||
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| | Benedictine monks founded before 1093 (during the incumbency of Abbot Paul and during the reign of William the ConquerorHertford Priory: Cobbett) by Ralph de Limesy and granted to St Albans, Hertfordshire after 1077; dissolved 1538; granted to Sir Antony Denny and his wife 1537/8; conventual church demolished after 1540; passed to Sir Thomas Wiley who built the private chapel of St John, demolished 1680 on the orders of the Bishop of Lincoln; site now occupied by parish church | St Mary
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| 0.0752467|format=dms|region:GB_type:landmark_scale:2000_source:wikimapia|name=Hertford Priory}}}} | ||
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|Hertford Trinitarian Priory | | lepers' hospital of St Mary Magdelene (founded before 1199) taken over by Trinitarians; Trinitarian monks founded c.1261; apparently under Easton, Wiltshire until 1448 as a hospital; later under Moatenden; apparently abandoned before 1535(?) | St Mary Magdalene (before 1199) Holy Trinity and St Thomas Martyr c.1261
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| 0.0726154|format=dms|region:GB_type:landmark_scale:2000_source:wikimapia|name=Hertford Trinitarian Priory}}}} | ||
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| | Carmelite Friars founded c.1317; dissolved 17 October 1538; granted to Edward Watson and H. Henderson 1546/7; site now occupied by [https://archive.today/20090805095533/http://www.chartridge.co.uk/default.asp?PageID=325 Hitchin Priory Hotel], part of cloister arches still visible; 17th/18th century country house built on site | St Mary ____________________ Hitchin 'Priory'
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| 0.2789497|format=dms|region:GB_type:landmark_scale:2000_source:wikimapia|name=Hitchin Priory}}}} | ||
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| | Gilbertine CanonsHitchin Priory: mistakenly recorded as a nunnery by T. Tanner, Notitia Monastica founded 1361-2 by Edward de Kendale; dissolved 1538 | St Saviour
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|Hitchin Minster | | Saxon minster founded before 11th century (references 10th & 11th century); parochial church before 1086 | | |
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|Muresley Priory, | | Benedictine nuns founded between 1107 and 1129, reputedly by Walter Giffard, bishop of Winchester (who died 1129), (or c.1160 or 1133); community evicted; granted to Sir John Dance c.1537 | St Margaret ____________________ Meursley Priory; Mursley Nunnery; St Margaret's Priory; St Margaret's in the Wood, Meuresley; St Margaret's de Bosco; Ivinghoe Nunnery; Ivinghoe Priory; Ivanhoe Monastery
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| 0.5193266|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=Ivinghoe (Muresley) Priory}}}} | ||
| valign=top | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Cambridge) founded before 1308; dissolved 1538; Dominican nuns — from Dartford refounded 1557; dissolved 1558: nuns transferred to Dartford | King's Langley Blackfriars
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| 0.4603207|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=King's Langley Priory}}}} | ||
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|Lannock | | Knights Templar founded before 1148 (manor granted to Templars but no preceptory founded); Knights Hospitaller let privately 1338 | | |
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| | hermitage before 1145; Benedictine nuns founded 1145 by Ralph de Langford, Dean and Chapter of St Paul's, through the influence of Geoffrey, Abbot of St Albans; apparently soon destroyed by fire; dissolved 1537; granted to George Ferrers; site now occupied by a manor house named 'Markyate Cell' built on priory remains; parochial church of St John the Baptist built at the south corner of the site | Holy Trinity ____________________ Mergate Priory; Market-Street Priory
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|Mirdial Priory? | | purported Augustinian Canons Regular (evidence lacking) | St Mary
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| | Gilbertine Priory priory cell founded 1361-2 by Sir Edward de Kendale; dissolved 1538; granted to John Cokke 1544/5; residence built on site 1585; converted to almshouses c.1812 | St Saviour ____________________ Hitchin Nunnery
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| 0.2753663|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB_source:Wikimapia_scale:2000|name=New Biggin Priory}}}} | ||
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| | Benedictine monks cell dependent on St Albans; founded 1178 by Abbot Simon or Abbot Warin built by John, Bishop of Ardfert; plundered by the French 1217; apparently abandoned before 1535; granted to John Cock 1539/40 | St Amphibalus ____________________ St Amphibalus Priory; Redburn Priory
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| 0.3949338|format=dms|region:GB_type:landmark_scale:2000_source:wikimapia|name=Redbourn Priory}}}} | ||
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|Rowney Priory ^(?) | | Benedictine nuns founded c.1164 by Conan, Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond; plundered early 15th century; dissolved 11 September 1457; granted to the patron, John Fray, chief baron of the Exchequer, who established a chantry; confiscated by the Crown 1548; 19th century house built on site, said to incorporate fabric from the priory | St John the Baptist ____________________ Rowheing Priory; Rownay Priory
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| 0.0440311|format=dms|region:GB_type:landmark_scale:2000_source:wikimapia|name=Rowney Priory}}}} | ||
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| | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1173-9 by Ralph de Rochester (on the site of a chapel built by his uncle Eustace de Merk) built in the time of Walter Walensis, Abbot of Colchester; dissolved 9 April 1537; granted to Robert Slete, Esq. 1540/1 priory church converted for parochial use as the Parish Church of St John the Baptist; a Georgian House also built on the site | The Priory Church of St John the Baptist and St Thomas the Martyr
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| 0.0216722|format=dms|region:GB_type:landmark_scale:2000_source:wikimapia|name=Royston Priory}}}} | ||
| valign=top | Benedictine? monks founded c.793; lax? c.820; secular collegiate and nuns from before 940; Benedictine monks and nuns c.970 (976) to 1140; Benedictine monks from 1140; dissolved 5 December 1539; parochial thereafter; episcopal diocesan cathedral founded 1877; extant | The Cathedral and Abbey Church of Saint Alban, St Albans
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| 0.342915|format=dms|region:GB_type:landmark_scale:2000_source:wikimapia|name=St Albans Cathedral Abbey}}}} | ||
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|St Albans Nunnery | | Benedictine nuns — with regular priests or brethren; attached to the abbey, living near the almonry; founded before 940; transferred to Sopwell 1140 | | |
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| | leper hospital founded 1194 by Warin (Garinus), Abbot of St Albans; Benedictine nuns with regular priests or brethren c.1328; Benedictine nuns founded after 1352; abandoned 1528; annexed to St Albans; granted to Ralph Rawlet, Esq. 1540/1 | St Mary de Pré Priory; St Mary de Pre Nunnery; De La Praye Nunnery
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|St Margaret's Priory | | Benedictine nuns founded before 1129, possibly by William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester, grants confirmed after his death 1129; dissolved 1536 | Ivinghoe Priory
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| valign=top | Benedictine monks probable cell dependent on Westminster Abbey founded c.1135 (late in the reign of Henry I or during that of Stephen); conventual church now in parochial use as the Parish Church of St Mary the Great |
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| | purportedly a hermitage prior to Benedictine foundation; Benedictine nuns founded 1140 by Geoffrey, Abbott of St Albans; subject to the abbess of St Albans c.1330; dissolved 1537 | St Mary ____________________ Sopewell Priory
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| 0.3347263|format=dms|region:GB_type:landmark_scale:2000_source:wikimapia|name=Sopwell Priory}}}} | ||
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|Standon Cell | | Sisters of the Order of St John of Jerusalem dissolved c.1180: transferred to Sisters of St John Priory, Buckland, Somerset | | |
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| | Knights Hospitaller founded 1147 (before 1154) (during the reign of Stephen) by Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hereford; dissolved before 1443–4; leased out 1330; revived; under a preceptor 1360; leased out before 1443–4 | | |
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| | hermitage built by William the Anchorite Benedictine monks alien house: cell dependent on Stoke by Clare, Suffolk founded 1173 and 1178 when Richard de Clare Earl of Hertford granted to his monks of Stoke the hermitage; dissolved c.1306; apparently reverted to a hermitage or chapel 1306; granted to Stoke College 1415 | The Priory Church of St Michael of Salburn in Standon ____________________ Salburn Priory in Standon; Salburn Priory
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| 0.0109112|format=dms|region:GB_type:landmark_scale:2000_source:wikimapia|name=Standon Priory}}}} | ||
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| | Knights Templar founded 1147 (during the reign of Stephen): granted by Bernard de Balliol, preceptory established later; dissolved 1308–12; Knights Hospitaller refounded 1324; let privately 1338; preceptory founded after 1338; leased to the preceptor of Ribstone and Mount St John 1498; let out privately 1507; granted by Henry VIII to Sir Ralph Sadler demolished 1712; site now occupied by The Princess Helena College built 1714 | Temple Dynnesley Preceptory
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| 0.2830938|format=dms|region:GB_type:landmark_scale:2000_source:wikimapia|name=Temple Dinsley Preceptory}}}} | ||
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|Ware Priory #+ | | Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on St-Evroul; founded before 1081, with endowment by Hugo de Grentemaisnil; dissolved 1414; granted to the Carthusians at Sheen, Surrey (Greater London); granted by Henry VIII; The old rectory or manor house built on the site early-17th century, altered 18th and 19th century; conventual church much altered, now in parochial use as parish church of St Mary the Virgin;— little, if any, remaining monastic fabric |
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| 0.0332218|format=dms|region:GB_type:landmark_scale:2000_source:wikimapia|name=Ware Priory}}}} | ||
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| | Franciscan Friars Minor (under the Custody of Cambridge) founded 1338 by Thomas second Lord Wake of Liddell, who received the king's permission in February 1338 to give to the Friars Minors property and land; dissolved 1538;; private residence 1544; incorporated into a house named 'The Priory' |
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| 0.0350833|format=dms|region:GB_type:landmark_scale:2000_source:wikimapia|name=Ware Friary}}}} | ||
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| | Augustinian Canons Regular cell, dependent on Waltham, Essex; founded after 1177 (when church and manor granted to Waltham) and before c.1260; dissolved c.1510(?): alienated from Waltham; church restored 19th century; now in use of parish church of St Laurence | St Lawrence ____________________ Prior Sancti Laurentii de Worem
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| 0.0388438|format=dms|region:GB_type:landmark_scale:2000_source:wikimapia|name=Wormley Priory}}}} | ||
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|Wymondley Priory, | | hospital founded before 1218 by Richard [de] Argentein; Augustinian Canons Regular founded soon after; hospital continued until 1290; dissolved 6 April 1537; granted to James Nedeham, surveyor of the king's works, 1541/2; site now occupied by a Tudor Tithe barn | St Mary ____________________ Little Wymondley Priory; Wymondesley Parva Priory
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| 0.2282989|format=dms|region:GB_type:landmark_scale:2000_source:wikimapia|name=Wymondley Priory}}}} |
See also
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