List of monastic houses in Somerset

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{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.059753|long=-2.933878|label= Athelney Abbey|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Athelney Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=50.9727|long=-2.7207|label= Bablew Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Bablew Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.3281983|long=-2.8622335|label=Banwell Monastery
(alleged site)|label_size=70|label_width=20|mark red pog.svg|position=top|link=Banwell Monastery}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.3220536|long=-2.8661066|label= Banwell Monastery
(poss. site)|label_size=70|label_width=20|mark red pog.svg|position=right|link=Banwell Monastery}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.3281111|long=-2.8632313|label= Banwell Monastery
(poss. site)|label_size=70|label_width=20|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Banwell Monastery}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.050134|long=-3.5295886|label= Barlinch Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=top|link=Barlinch Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.405947|long=-2.672061|label= Barrow Gurney Nunnery|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=top|link=Barrow Gurney Nunnery}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.381253|long=-2.358458|label= Bath Abbey|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Bath Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.2625728|long=-2.9415357|label_width=12|label=Brent purported Cell
(very approx. loc.)|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Brent Cell}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.125828|long=-3.006872|label= Bridgwater Greyfriars|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=bottom|link=Bridgwater Greyfriars}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.108478|long=-2.450619|label= Bruton Abbey|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Bruton Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.051956|long=-3.006481|label= Buckland Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Buckland Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.18566|long=-2.8742|label= Burtle Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Burtle Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.150386|long=-3.061522|label= Cannington Nunnery|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Cannington Nunnery}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.444295|long=-2.8597444|label= Clevedon Friary|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=bottom|link=Clevedon Friary}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.155333|long=-3.364781|label= Cleeve Abbey|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=bottom|link=Cleeve Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.253975|long=-2.493594|label= Downside Abbey|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Downside Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.182239|long=-3.445697|label= Dunster Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Dunster Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.145831|long=-2.714022|label= Glastonbury Abbey|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Glastonbury Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.2485224|long=-2.6074773|label= Green Ore 'Cell'|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Green Ore 'Cell'}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.3313356|long=-2.3195931|label= Hinton Charterhouse|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Hinton Charterhouse}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.000467|long=-2.684781|label= Illchester Friary|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=top|link=Illchester Friary}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.002503|long=-2.682886|label= Illchester Nunnery|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Illchester Nunnery}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.413117|long=-2.496744|label= Keynsham Abbey|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=top|link=Keynsham Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.189278|long=-3.222686|label= Kilve Chantry|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Kilve Chantry}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=50.949767|long=-2.719553|label= Montacute Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=bottom|link=Montacute Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.016544|long=-2.820378|label= Muchelney Abbey|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Muchelney Abbey}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.086261|long=-2.376161|label= Stavordale Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=bottom|link=Stavordale Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.181111|long=-3.140917|label= Stogursey Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=top|link=Stogursey Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=51.018083|long=-3.098203|label= Taunton Priory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Taunton Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=50.999803|long=-2.415361|label= Templecombe Preceptory|label_size=70|mark red pog.svg| position=top|link=Templecombe Preceptory}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=50.988692|long=-2.410748|label= Yenston Priory
(poss. loc.)|label_size=70|label_width=20|mark red pog.svg| position=right|link=Yenston Priory}}

{{Location map~ |Somerset |lat=50.987629|long=-2.414525|label= Yenston Priory
(poss. loc.)|label_size=70|label_width=20|mark red pog.svg| position=left|link=Yenston Priory}}

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

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style="width:15%;"\|Foundation ! style="width:5%;"\|Image ! style="width:30%;"\|Communities & ProvenanceCommunities & Provenance shows the status and communities existing at each establishment, together with such dates as have been established as well as the fate of the establishment after dissolution, and the current status of the site. ! style="width:20%;"\|Formal Name or DedicationFormal Name or Dedication: shows the formal name of the establishment or the person in whose name the church is dedicated. & Alternative NamesAlternative Names: some of the establishments have had alternative names over the course of time. In order to assist in text-searching such alternatives in name or spelling have been provided. !width=10%\|Online ReferencesOnline References: presents links to online references to the particular establishment in addition to the general printed and online references given at the foot of this article. Establishments for which online references have not been specified are referred to within the printed references listed. & LocationLocation: provides a link to the geographical position of the site of the foundation where established. Where the location has been established the location is pinpointed (dependent on the available resolution of the map data), otherwise the general location is given in italic.
valign=top \|Athelney Abbey ^# \|File:King Alfreds Monument.jpg \|possible early hermitage or monastery founded c.878?; Benedictine? monks founded c.888 by King Alfred (possibly enlarging pre-existing establishment); Benedictine monks (re)founded c.960; dissolved 8 February 1539; granted to John Clayton 1544/5; now on private land, the site of church is marked by a monument erected 1801 \|The Abbey of Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Athelwine, Athelney \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=191911 \|mname=Athelney Abbey\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40922 \|title=Houses of Benedictine monks: The abbey of Athelney \|editor-first=William\|editor-last=Page \|publisher=Institute of Historical Research \|year=1911 \|work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 \|access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{cite book\|last=Adkins\|first=Lesley\|author2=Roy Adkins \|title=A field Guide to Somerset Archaeology\|publisher=Dovecote Press\|location=Stanbridge\|year=1992\|isbn=0-946159-94-7\|pages=21–22}}{{NHLE \|num=1173838 \|desc=King Alfred's Monument with railings \|accessdate=9 February 2007}} Athelney {{coord\|51.059753
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valign=top \|Bablew Grange \| \|Cluniac monks grange and chapelBablew: given as priory by Tanner, Notitia Monastica dependent on Montacute \|Bablew Priory \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=1303372 \|mname=Bablew Grange\|accessdate=11 November 2011}} Tintinhull {{coord\|50.9727
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valign=top \|Banwell Monastery \| \|Saxon monastery granted to Asser by Alfred c.888; St Andrew's Church, Banwell, possibly on site (alternative possible sites) \| \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=194496 \|mname=Banwell Court\|accessdate=11 November 2011}} {{coord\|51.3281983
2.8622335\|format=dms\|type:landmark_region:GB\|name=Banwell Monastery (alleged site)}} (alleged) {{coord\|51.3220536
2.8661066\|format=dms\|type:landmark_region:GB\|name=Banwell Monastery (possible site)}} (possible) {{coord\|51.3281111
2.8632313\|format=dms\|type:landmark_region:GB\|name=Banwell Monastery (possible site)}} (possible)
valign=top \|Barlynch Priory \| \|Augustinian Canons Regular founded between 1154 and 1189 (between 1174(?) and 1220), reputedly by William de Say; dissolved before July 1537; granted to Sir John Wallop 1538/9; remains now on site of Barlynch Farm; now in ownership of Working for Wildlife \|The Priory Church of Saint Nicholas, Barlinch ____________________ Barlinch Priory \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=36537 \|mname=Barlinch Priory\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40931 \|title=Houses of Augustinian canons: The priory of Barlynch \|editor-first=William\|editor-last=Page \|publisher=Institute of Historical Research \|year=1911 \|work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 \|access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{cite book\|last=Bush\|first=Robin\|author-link=Robin Bush (historian)\|title=Somerset: The complete guide\|publisher=Dovecote Press\|location=Wimborne, Dorset\|year=1994\|isbn=1-874336-26-1\|page=[https://archive.org/details/somersetcomplete0000bush/page/46 46]\|url=https://archive.org/details/somersetcomplete0000bush/page/46}}{{NHLE \|num=1237516 \|desc=Barlich Farmhouse \|accessdate=12 July 2009}} Brompton Regis {{coord\|51.050134
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valign=top \|Barrow Gurney Nunnery \| \|Benedictine nuns founded c.1200 by ___ Gurney, Lord of Stoke Hamden; dissolved 1536; granted to William Clerke 1544/5; incorporated into Barrow Court \|The Blessed Virgin Mary and St Edmund, King and Martyr ____________________ Minchin Barrow Priory; Minchinbarrow Priory Bearwe Priory; Borrow Gurney Priory \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=197963 \|mname=Barrow Court\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40924 \|title=Houses of Benedictine nuns: The priory of Barrow Gurney \|editor-first=William\|editor-last=Page \|publisher=Institute of Historical Research \|year=1911 \|work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 \|access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{cite web \|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/BarrowGurney/index.html \|title=Barrow Gurney \|access-date=5 January 2008 \|work=GenUKI }} Barrow Gurney {{coord\|51.405947
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valign=top \|Bath Abbey ⁺ \|File:Bathabbey at night amcm.jpg \|Saxon nuns founded c.676, reputedly by King Osric, who granted land to Bertana, abbess; destroyed and rebuilt several times; monks refounded before 758; secular? 775; Benedictine? monks refounded 963/4; episcopal diocesan cathedral 1090; dissolved 1539; granted to Humphrey Colles 1542/3; conventual church now in parochial use \|The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Bath \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=204213 \|mname=Abbey Church of St Peter and St Paul\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web \|url=http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=34341 \|title=Bishops \|author=Diana E. Greenway \|publisher=Institute of Historical Research \|year=2001 \|work=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: volume 7: Bath and Wells \|access-date=10 November 2011 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130919124024/http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=34341 \|archive-date=19 September 2013 \|url-status=dead }}{{cite web\|title=Bath Abbey\|url=http://www.uquebec.ca/musique/orgues/angleterre/batha.html#English \| work=Robert Poliquin's Music and Musicians\| publisher=Quebec University \| access-date=18 September 2007}}{{cite web \|author=Historic England \|author-link=Historic England \|url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=442109 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071103232652/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442109 \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=2007-11-03 \|title=Bath Abbey (442109) \|work=Images of England }}{{cite web \|url=http://www.sacred-destinations.com/england/bath-abbey \|title=Bath Abbey \|access-date=11 November 2011 \|work=Sacred destinations }} Bath, Somerset {{coord\|51.381253
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valign=top \|Bedminster Monastery \|colspan=4\|Historical county location. See entry under List of monastic houses in Bristol
valign=top \|Brent Cell ^~ \| \|Benedictine monks purported cell dependent on Glastonbury \|East Brent Cell \|{{coord\|51.2625728
2.9415357\|format=dms\|type:landmark_region:GB\|name=(purported) Brent Cell (very approx. loc.)}} (very approx)
valign=top \|Bridgwater Greyfriars ^ \| \|Franciscan Friars (under the Custody of Bristol) founded c.1245 by William Bruer (Briwere); church consecrated 1445 (after rebuilt/extended); dissolved 13 September 1538 \|Bridge Water Friary \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=190943 \|mname=Bridgwater Greyfriars\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40940 \|title=Friaries: The Franciscans at Bridgwater \|editor-first=William\|editor-last=Page \|publisher=Institute of Historical Research \|year=1911 \|work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 \|access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{cite web\|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/12435\|title=Franciscan Friary and later mansion, Bridgwater\|publisher=Somerset County Council\|access-date=4 September 2009}}{{cite web\|url=http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/somerset/bridgwater/friarn/index.html\|title=Friarn Meadow, Bridgwater, Somerset\|date=30 April 2008\|publisher=Wessex Archaeology\|access-date=6 January 2010}} {{cite web\|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/2955970/Bridgwater-Friary-Somerset\|title=Bridgwater Friary, Somerset\|publisher=Wessex Archaeology\|access-date=6 January 2010}}{{cite web\|url=http://www.friarn.co.uk/medievaltiles/fmeadow.htm\|title=Medieval decorated tile from Friarn Meadow, Bridgwater\|publisher=Cattermoles Consultants\|access-date=11 November 2011\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004174318/http://www.friarn.co.uk/medievaltiles/fmeadow.htm\|archive-date=4 October 2011}} Bridgwater {{coord\|51.125828
3.006872\|format=dms\|type:landmark_region:GB\|name=Bridgwater Greyfriars}}
valign=top \|Bristol Austin Friars \|colspan=4\|Historical county location. See entry under List of monastic houses in Bristol
valign=top \|Bristol Eremites Friars \|colspan=4\|Historical county location. See entry under List of monastic houses in Bristol
valign=top \|Bristol Preceptory \|colspan=4\|Historical county location. See entry under List of monastic houses in Bristol
valign=top \|Bruton Abbey \|150px \|Benedictine monks abbey(?) founded c.1005 by Algar, Earl of Cornwall; dissolved before 1086(?); Augustinian Canons Regular refounded 1127-1135 by William de Mohun raised to abbey status 1511; dissolved 1 April 1539; granted to Maurice Berkely 1545/6 \| \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=199997 \|mname=Bruton Abbey\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40932 \|title=Houses of Augustinian canons: The priories of Bruton and Burtle Moor \|editor-first=William\|editor-last=Page \|publisher=Institute of Historical Research \|year=1911 \|work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 \|access-date=10 November 2011 }} Bruton {{coord\|51.108478
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valign=top \|Buckland Priory \|rowspan=2\| \|Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1166 by William de Arlegh (Erlegh), Lord of Durston; dissolved c.1180; Knights Hospitaller preceptory refounded c.1180; dissolved 1433 together with priory of Sisters of St John of Jerusalem (see immediately below); refounded c.1180; dissolved after 1500; Augustinian Canons Regular priory or hospital; refounded after 1500; dissolved 10 February 1539; granted to Alexander Popham and William Halley 1544/5; site now occupied by Buckland Farm \|John the Baptist ____________________ Minchin Buckland Preceptory Buckland Sororum \|rowspan=2\|{{PastScape\|mnumber=191893 \|mname=Buckland Priory\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18668 \|title=Durston \|author=R W Dunning, C R Elrington (Editors), A P Baggs, M C Siraut \|publisher=Institute of Historical Research \|year=1992 \|work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6: Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and neighbouring parishes) \|access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{NHLE \|num=1060491 \|desc=Lodge Farmhouse \|accessdate=8 January 2009}} {{cite web\|url=http://www.vagg.org.uk/cvstudy/buckland.php \|title=Notes on Buckland Priory \|publisher=Vagg.org \|access-date=6 January 2010 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114082134/http://www.vagg.org.uk/cvstudy/buckland.php \|archive-date=14 January 2012 }}{{cite web\|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/43225\|title=Mynchin Buckland Priory, Durston\|work=Somerset Historic Environment Record\|publisher=Somerset County Council\|access-date=6 January 2010}} Durston {{coord\|51.051956
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valign=top \|Buckland Sisters of St John Priory \|Sisters of St John of Jerusalem transferred from Carbrooke, Clanfield, Gosford, Hampton, Hogshaw, Shingay, Standon and Swingfield; refounded c.1180; together with Knights Hospitaller Preceptory on the site of former Augustinian Canons Regular priory (see immediately above); dissolved after 1500; Augustinian Canons Regular priory or hospital founded on site (see immediately above); site now occupied by Buckland Farm \|St Mary and St Nicholas
valign=top \|Burtle Priory \| \|hermitage, endowed by William son of Godfrey of Eddington 1199; Augustinian Canons Regular priory cell dependent on Glastonbury 1267; refounded before 1270; independent from 1275; dissolved 1536; granted to John and James Bisse 1553/4: parochial church of St Philip and St James Church built on the site \|The Holy Trinity, the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Stephen ____________________ Burtle Moor Priory; St Stephens Chapel, Sprauellissmede; Byrkley Priory; Burcle Priory; Bercle Priory; Brademers Priory \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=192270 \|mname=Burtle Priory\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web\|url=http://www.burtlevillage.co.uk/church_history.asp\|title=About St Philip & St James Church\|publisher=Burtle Village\|access-date=6 January 2010}} Burtle {{coord\|51.18566
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valign=top \|Cannington Priory \|150px \|Benedictine nuns — from Dorset founded c.1138 by Robert de Courcey; transferred to Colwich, Staffordshire; converted into a mansion; reverted to nunnery; dissolved 1536; granted to Edward Rogers 1538/9; remains incorporated into Cannington Court, built on site \|Canyngton Nunnery \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=190988 \|mname=Cannington Priory\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40925 \|title=Houses of Benedictine nuns: The priory of Cannington \|editor-first=William\|editor-last=Page \|publisher=Institute of Historical Research \|year=1911 \|work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 \|access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{cite web\|url=http://www.cannington.org.uk/prioryhistory.htm \|title=Priory History \|access-date=13 January 2008 \|work=Cannington Online \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720053350/http://www.cannington.org.uk/prioryhistory.htm \|archive-date=20 July 2011 }} {{NHLE \|num=1344930 \|desc=Cannington Court \|accessdate=13 January 2008}}{{NHLE \|num=1059059 \|desc=Church of St Mary \|accessdate=13 January 2008}} Cannington, Somerset {{coord\|51.150386
3.061522\|format=dms\|type:landmark_region:GB\|name=Cannington Nunnery}}
valign=top \|Charterhouse on Mendip \| \|Carthusian monks grange (purported cell) dependent on Witham; granted Robert May 1544/5 \| \|
valign=top \|Cheddar Monastery \| \|reference to community 978; called a minster \| \|
valign=top \|Chewstoke Cell \| \|cell(?) founded (?) by Elizabeth de Sancta Cruce; dissolved before 1500(?) \|Holy Cross \|{{cite book\|last=Ross\|first=Lesley\|title=Before the Lake\|year=2004\|publisher=Harptree History Society\|isbn=0954883209\|pages=20–21}}{{cite book\|last=Gilchrist\|first=Roberta\|title=Gender and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Religious Women\|year=1997\|publisher=Psychology Press\|isbn=9780415156561\|pages=183–185\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5I340PbJjNgC&q=Chewstoke+Cell+Monastery&pg=PA183}}
valign=top \|Clevedon Friary * \| \|Franciscan Friars Minor extant \|Friary and Parish of the Immaculate Conception \|[http://www.friar.org/locations/clevedon.html Clevedon] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215155142/http://www.friar.org/locations/clevedon.html \|date=15 February 2012 }} {{coord\|51.444295
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valign=top \|Cleeve Abbey \|File:CleeveAbbey.JPG \|Cistercian monks — from Revesby founded between 1186 and 1191, land granted by William de Roumare (Romara), Earl of Lincoln (building apparently begun by 1198 - 24 or 25 June 1198); dissolved 1536; granted to Thomas, Earl of Sussex 1541/2; (EHThe current trustee of this site is English Heritage) \|Vallis Florida; Clyve Abbey; Cliff Abbey \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=188617 \|mname=Cleeve Abbey\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite book\|last=Harrison\|first=Steve\|title=Cleeve Abbey Colour Handbook\|publisher=English Heritage\|year=2000\|isbn=978-1-85074-760-4\|pages=24–35}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40927 \|title=House of Cistercian monks: The abbey of Cleeve \|editor-first=William\|editor-last=Page \|publisher=Institute of Historical Research \|year=1911 \|work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 \|access-date=10 November 2011 }} {{cite book\|last=Platt\|first=Colin\|title=The Abbeys and Priories of Medieval England\|publisher=Secker & Warburg\|year=1984\|isbn=978-0-436-37557-6\|pages=24–34}}{{cite book\|last=Robinson\|first=David\|author2=Janet Burton \|author3=Nicola Coldestroyedeam \|author4=Glyn Coppack \|author5=Richard Fawcett \|title=The Cistercian Abbeys of Britain\|publisher=Batsford Ltd \|year=1988\|isbn=978-0-7134-8392-5\|page=86}}{{cite book \|title=Curiosities of Somerset \|last=Leete-Hodge \|first=Lornie \|year=1985 \|publisher=Bossiney Books \|location=Bodmin \|isbn=0-906456-98-3 \|page=43 }}{{cite web \|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/33918 \|title=Cleeve Abbey, Washford \|work=Somerset Historic Environment Record \|publisher=Somerset County Council \|access-date=13 July 2008}}{{cite book \|last=James\|first=Montagu Rhodes \|title=Abbeys \|publisher=The Ballantyne Press \|year=1926 \|pages=124–126}} Washford/Old Cleeve {{coord\|51.155333
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valign=top \|Dodlinch Priory ^~ \| \|Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine possibly initially dependent on Bristol; associated with the Victorine abbey at Bristol; founded c.1210 by William de Courtney; transferred to new site at Woodspring ?before 1226; dissolved 1230 \|Dodelyng Priory \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=192662 \|mname=Woodspring Priory\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40935 \|title=Houses of Augustinian canons: The priory of Worspring \|editor-first=William\|editor-last=Page \|publisher=Institute of Historical Research \|year=1911 \|work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 \|access-date=10 November 2011 }}
valign=top \|Downside Abbey This site has a current monastic function. \|File:Downside abbey2.jpg \|Benedictine monks* (community founded at Douai 1607); transferred from Douai founded 1814 \|The Abbey Church of Saint Gregory the Great, Downside, Stratton-on-Fosse \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=200728 \|mname=Downside Abbey Church\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{NHLE \|num=1058633 \|desc=Abbey Church of St Gregory The Great, Downside Abbey and School \|accessdate=24 March 2007}} Stratton-on-the-Fosse {{coord\|51.253975
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valign=top \|Dunster Priory ⁺This site has a current non-monastic ecclesiastic function. \|150px \|Benedictine monks dependent on Bath; founded c.1100 (after 1090) by William de Mohun; dissolved 1539; granted to Humphrey Colles 1542/3; church in parochial use as the Priory Church of St George \|Priory Church of St George \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=36848 \|mname=Dunster Priory\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40920 \|title=Houses of Benedictine monks: The priory of Dunster \|editor-first=William\|editor-last=Page \|publisher=Institute of Historical Research \|year=1911 \|work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 \|access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{NHLE \|num=1057646 \|desc=Priory Church of St George \|accessdate=28 September 2007}}{{cite web\|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/34816\|title=Benedictine Priory, Dunster\|work=Somerset Historic Environment Record\|publisher=Somerset County Council\|access-date=7 January 2010}} {{cite web\|url=http://www.dunstertithebarn.org.uk/history-church.htm\|title=History of Dunster Church & Priory \|publisher=Dunster Tithe Barn\|access-date=7 January 2010}}{{cite book \|last= Poyntz Wright\|first= Peter\|title= The Parish Church Towers of Somerset, Their construction, craftsmanship and chronology 1350 - 1550\|year= 1981\|publisher= Avebury Publishing Company\|isbn= 0-86127-502-0\|page=210}}{{cite web\|url=http://exmoorencyclopedia.org.uk/contents-list/36-d/344-dunster-tithe-barn-.html \|title=Dunster Tithe Barn \|publisher=Everything Exmoor \|access-date=11 November 2011 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713015727/http://www.exmoorencyclopedia.org.uk/contents-list/36-d/344-dunster-tithe-barn-.html \|archive-date=13 July 2011 }} Dunster {{coord\|51.182239
3.445697\|format=dms\|type:landmark_region:GB\|name=Dunster Priory}}
valign=top \|Frome Monastery \| \|Saxon (Benedictine?) monks — purportedly from Malmesbury; founded after 675 by St Aldhelm; dissolved before 690? \| \|
valign=top \|Glastonbury Abbey \|150px \|Saxon monks founded c.6th century(?); Benedictine? monks founded c.705; secular 9th century? Benedictine monks (re)founded(?) c.960; dissolved 15 November 1539; granted to Edward, Duke of Somerset 1547/8; granted to Sir Peter Carew 1558/9; ruins purchased by the Bath and Wells Diocesan Trust 1908; now in ownership of the registered charity [https://www.glastonburyabbey.com/ Glastonbury Abbey Trust] with public access \|The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Glastonbury \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=196705 \|mname=Glastonbury Abbey\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40921 \|title=Houses of Benedictine monks: The abbey of Glastonbury \|editor-first=William\|editor-last=Page \|publisher=Institute of Historical Research \|year=1911 \|work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 \|access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{NHLE \|num=1345447 \|desc=Glastonbury Abbey \|accessdate=11 November 2006}}{{cite book\|last=Carley\|first=James P\|title=Glastonbury Abbey: The Holy House at the Head of the Moors Adventurous\|publisher=St. Martin's Press\|location=New York\|isbn=0-906362-23-7\|year=1996}} {{cite book\|last=Abrams\|first=Lesley\|author2=James Carley \|title=The Archaeology and History of Glastonbury Abbey: Essays in Honour of the ninetieth birthday of C.A.Ralegh Radford\|publisher=Boydell Press\|year=1991\|isbn=978-0-85115-284-4}}{{cite book\|last=Carley\|first=James P.\|title=Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian Tradition\|publisher=D.S.Brewer\|year=2001\|series=Arthurian Studies\|isbn=978-0-85991-572-4}}{{cite book\|last=Rouse\|first=Robert Allen\|author2=Cory James Rushton \|title=The Medieval Quest for Arthur\|publisher=The History Press Ltd\|year=2005\|isbn=978-0-7524-3343-1}}{{cite book\|last=Rahtz\|first=Philip\|author2=Lorna Watts \|title=Glastonbury: Myth and Archaeology\|publisher=The History Press LTD\|year=2003\|edition=2\|isbn=978-0-7524-2548-1\|pages=85–126}} Glastonbury {{coord\|51.145831
2.714022\|format=dms\|type:landmark_region:GB\|name=Glastonbury Abbey}}
valign=top \|Green Ore Cell(?) \| \|Benedictine monks 'cell of Glaston'; probable grange of Hinton Charterhouse \|Green Oare \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=1301521 \|mname=\|accessdate=10 October 2015}} {{coord\|51.2485224
2.6074773\|format=dms\|type:landmark_region:GB\|name=Green Ore 'Cell'}}
valign=top \|Haselbury Priory \| \|hermitage to 1154; Augustinian Canons Regular William fitz Walter began house — apparently not completed; possibly destroyed in the contests of the barons \| \|
valign=top \|Hinton Priory \|150px \|Carthusian monks (community founded 1222 at Hatherop, Gloucestershire 1222); transferred here May 1232; dissolved 1539; now in private ownership without public access \|Hinton Charterhouse \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=202965 \|mname=Hinton Priory\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40928 \|title=Houses of Carthusian monks: The priory of Hinton \|editor-first=William\|editor-last=Page \|publisher=Institute of Historical Research \|year=1911 \|work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 \|access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{NHLE \|num=1320809 \|desc=The chapter house \|accessdate=20 November 2006}} Hinton Charterhouse {{coord\|51.3313356
2.3195931\|format=dms\|type:landmark_region:GB\|name=Hinton Charterhouse}}
valign=top \|Ilchester Blackfriars ^# \| \|Dominican Friars founded between 1221 and 1260; dissolved 1538; demolished early 19th century \| \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=196558 \|mname=Ilchester Blackfriars\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66498 \|title=Parishes: Ilchester \|author=R. W. Dunning (editor), A. P. Baggs, R. J. E. Bush, Margaret Tomlinson \|publisher=Institute of Historical Research \|year=1974 \|work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 3 \|access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{cite web\|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/53016\|title=Dominican friary, West Street, Ilchester\|work=Somerset Historic Environment Record\|publisher=Somerset County Council\|access-date=4 September 2009}} Ilchester {{coord\|51.000467
2.684781\|format=dms\|type:landmark_region:GB\|name=Illchester Friary}}
valign=top \|Ilchester Nunnery \| \|hospital founded c.1217-1220 by William Dennis (Dacus); Augustinian Canonesses refounded before 1281; dissolved before 1463 \|Whitehall Hospital of the Holy Trinity ____________________ Blanchesale Hospital; Whitehall Hospital \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=196552 \|mname=Whitehall Hospital \|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web\|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/53046\|title=Augustinian nunnery, High Street, Ilchester\|work=Somerset Historic Environment Record\|publisher=Somerset County Council\|access-date=4 September 2009}}{{cite web\|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40946#s2\|title=Hospitals: Ilchester and Langport'\|last=Page\|first=William\|year=1911\|work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2\|publisher=British History Online\|access-date=9 January 2010}} James Stevens-Cox, A History of Ilchester, the ancient county town of Somerset nos. 1–6, 8 & 9 (1958), p. 129{{cite book\|last=Power\|first=Eileen\|title=Medieval English Nunneries, c. 1275 to 1535\|publisher=Biblo & Tannen Booksellers & Publishers Incorporat\|year=1988\|page=233\|isbn=978-0-8196-0140-7\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ll6BuF4-kgC&q=Ilchester%20Nunnery&pg=PA233}}{{cite web\|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/53010\|title=Chapel, Whitehall hospital and nunnery, High Street, Ilchester\|work=Somerset Historic Environment Record\|publisher=Somerset County Council\|access-date=9 January 2010}} Ilchester {{coord\|51.002503
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valign=top \|Ilminster \| \|possible Saxon minster; land granted to Muchelney by King Ine; no record of community \| \|
valign=top \|Keynsham Abbey \|File:Keynsham abbey.jpg \|Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1170 by William, Earl of Gloucester dissolved 1539; granted to Thomas Bridges, Esq 1552/3 \| \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=200923 \|mname=Keynsham Abbey\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40930 \|title=Houses of Augustinian canons: The abbey of Keynsham \|editor-first=William\|editor-last=Page \|publisher=Institute of Historical Research \|year=1911 \|work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 \|access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{NHLE \|num=1384577 \|desc=Keynsham Abbey \|accessdate=18 July 2007}}{{cite journal\|last=Barrett\|first=J.H.\|year=1969\|title=A Fipple Flute or Pipe from the Site of Keynsham Abbey\|journal=The Galpin Society Journal\|volume=22\|pages=47–50\|jstor=841627\|doi=10.2307/841627}} Keynsham {{coord\|51.413117
2.496744\|format=dms\|type:landmark_region:GB\|name=Keynsham Abbey}}
valign=top \|Kilve Chantry \|File:Kilvechantry.jpg \|founded 1329 by Simon de Furneaux; dissolved late 14th century damaged by fire in 1848 \| \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=189866 \|mname=Kilve Chantry\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{NHLE \|num=1345688 \|desc=Remains of Chantry, abutting East side of Chantry Cottage \|accessdate=7 October 2007}}{{cite book \|title=Portrait of the Quantocks \|last=Waite \|first=Vincent \|year=1964 \|publisher=Robert Hale \|location=London \|isbn=0-7091-1158-4 \|pages=67–70 }}{{cite web\|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/30560\|title=Remains of Chantry, abutting East side of Chantry Cottage, Sea Lane (West side), Kilve\|work=Somerset Historic Environment Record\|publisher=Somerset County Council\|access-date=7 January 2010}} {{cite web\|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/34540\|title=Kilve chantry, Kilve\|work=Somerset Historic Environment Record\|publisher=Somerset County Council\|access-date=7 January 2010}}{{cite web\|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/heritage-at-risk/search-register/list-entry/48507\|title=Remains of Chantry at Kilve, Sea Lane, Kilve, West Somerset, Somerset\|work=Buildings at Risk Register\|publisher=Historic England\|access-date=10 February 2018}} Kilve {{coord\|51.189278
3.222686\|format=dms\|type:landmark_region:GB\|name=Kilve Chantry}}
valign=top \|Langley Priory \| \|uncertain order and foundation house of St Mary, brothers or canons, short-lived establishment 12th century \| \|
valign=top \|Martock Priory \| \|granted to Humphry Colles 1542/3 \| \|
valign=top \|Moorlynch Cell \| \|Benedictine monks cell dependent on Glastonbury \| \|
valign=top \|Montacute Priory \| \|Cluniac monks founded between c.1078 and 1102 by William, Count of Mortain dissolved 1539; granted to Robert, Earl of Leicester 1573/4; remains now part of Abbey Farmhouse \|Montecute; Mons Acutus \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=193145 \|mname=Montacute Priory\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40926 \|title=House of Cluniac monks: The priory of Montacute \|editor-first=William\|editor-last=Page \|publisher=Institute of Historical Research \|year=1911 \|work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 \|access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{cite web\|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/54294\|title=Montacute Priory\|work=Somerset Historic Environment Record\|publisher=Somerset County Council\|access-date=12 July 2009}}{{NHLE \|num=1057256 \|desc=Abbey Farmhouse \|accessdate=11 July 2009}} Montacute {{coord\|50.949767
2.719553\|format=dms\|type:landmark_region:GB\|name=Montacute Priory}}
valign=top \|Muchelney Abbey \|File:Muchelney Parish church, abbey foreground ruins.jpg \|Benedictine? monks founded before 693 traditionally by King Ine; destroyed in raids by the Danes(?)c.878 secular collegiate? founded 939 by King Athelstan; Benedictine monks founded c.950 (959); dissolved 3 January 1538; granted to Edward, Earl of Hertford 1537/8; (EHThe current trustee of this site is English Heritage) \|Michelney Abbey \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=193791 \|mname=Muchelney Abbey\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40923 \|title=Houses of Benedictine monks: The abbey of Muchelney \|editor-first=William\|editor-last=Page \|publisher=Institute of Historical Research \|year=1911 \|work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 \|access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{NHLE \|num=1236790 \|desc=The Abbot's House, Muchelney Abbey \|accessdate=25 September 2007}} Muchelney {{coord\|51.016544
2.820378\|format=dms\|type:landmark_region:GB\|name=Muchelney Abbey}}
valign=top \|Pennard Minster \| \|Saxon minster \| \|
valign=top \|Pitminster \| \|possible Saxon minster \| \|
valign=top \|Potbury Priory \| \|Augustinian Canons Regular possible priory dependent on Bristol — no record of cell \| \|
valign=top \|Regil Grange \| \|Cistercian monks grange? dependent on Flaxley; founded before 1200(?) \| \|
valign=top \|Stavordale Priory \|150px \|Augustinian Canons Regular — Vitorine founded before 1243 by a member of the Lovel family; merged with Taunton 1533; granted to John, Earl of Oxford 1544/5; conventual church converted into a private house, renovated and extended in 1905 \|Slaverdale Priory \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=202645\|mname=Stavordale Priory\|accessdate=11 June 2009}}{{cite web\|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40933\|title=The Priory of Stavordale\|last=Page\|first=William\|year=1911\|work=Houses of Augustinian Canons\|publisher=British History Online\|pages=139–141\|access-date=11 June 2009}}{{cite book \|title=Somerset: The complete guide \|last=Bush \|first=Robin \|year=1994 \|publisher=Dovecote Press \|location=Wimborne, Dorset \|isbn=1-874336-26-1 \|page=[https://archive.org/details/somersetcomplete0000bush/page/62 62] \|url=https://archive.org/details/somersetcomplete0000bush/page/62 }}{{NHLE \|num=1176699 \|desc=Stavordale Priory \|accessdate=8 December 2008}} Charlton Musgrove {{coord\|51.086261
2.376161\|format=dms\|type:landmark_region:GB\|name=Stavordale Priory}}
valign=top \|Steep Holme Cell \| \|Augustinian Canons Regular cell dependent on Studley, Oxfordshire; founded before 1260; dissolved before 1300 \| \|
valign=top \|Stogursey Priory \|150px \|Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on Lonlay 1183; founded 1100-07: church granted by William de Falaise and his wife Geva; granted to Eton College 1440; last prior left 1442 \|Stoke Courcy Priory \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=191224 \|mname=Church of St Andrew\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40954 \|title=Alien house: The priory of Stogursey \|editor-first=William\|editor-last=Page \|publisher=Institute of Historical Research \|year=1911 \|work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 \|access-date=10 November 2011 }}C. Gathercole, An Archaeological Assessment of Stogursey, Somerset Urban Archaeology Surveys (English Heritage Extensive Urban Surveys/Somerset County Council 2003), with link to full report ([https://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/eus/stogursey_eus.html SW South-West Heritage Trust]). {{cite journal\|last=Kerr\|first=William\|year=1989\|title=Black Abbey, the archbishops of Armagh and the Church of Derryaghy\|journal=Lisburn Historical Society Journals\|volume=7\|url=http://www.lisburn.com/books/historical_society/volume7/volume7_3.html#abbey\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060105034311/http://www.lisburn.com/books/historical_society/volume7/volume7_3.html#abbey\|archive-date=5 January 2006}}{{NHLE \|num=1057404 \|desc=Church of St. Andrew \|accessdate=12 July 2008}} Stogursey {{coord\|51.181111
3.140917\|format=dms\|type:landmark_region:GB\|name=Stogursey Priory}}
valign=top \|Taunton Priory ^#There is no identifiable trace of the monastic foundation remains at this site. \|150px \|secular collegiate founded before 904; Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1120 (c.1115) by William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester; dissolved 1539; granted to Mathew Colehurst 1544/5; part of remains now called 'Priory Barn'; converted into a cricket museum \|The Priory Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Taunton \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=190832 \|mname=Taunton Priory\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40934 \|title=Houses of Augustinian canons: The priory of Taunton \|editor-first=William\|editor-last=Page \|publisher=Institute of Historical Research \|year=1911 \|work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 \|access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{cite book \| last = Hugo \| first = Thomas \| year = 1860 \| title = The History of Taunton Priory in the County of Somerset. \| url = https://archive.org/details/historytauntonp00hugogoog \| publisher = J. R. Smith, London \| isbn=978-1-4373-7535-0 }}{{cite web \|url=http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/hes/downloads/EUS_TauntonText.pdf \|title=English Heritage Extensive Urban Survey, An archaeological assessment of Taunton \|last=Gathercole \|first=Clare \|access-date=11 November 2011 \|publisher=Somerset County Council \|year=2002 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717063217/http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/hes/downloads/EUS_TauntonText.pdf \|archive-date=17 July 2011}} Taunton {{coord\|51.018083
3.098203\|format=dms\|type:landmark_region:GB\|name=Taunton Priory}}
valign=top \|Taunton Whitefriars \| \|*Carmelite Friars* licence granted 1341; revoked 1343; house never established \| \|{{cite web \|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40941 \|title=Friaries: The Carmelites at Taunton \|editor-first=William\|editor-last=Page \|publisher=Institute of Historical Research \|year=1911 \|work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 \|access-date=10 November 2011 }}
valign=top \|Templecombe Preceptory \| \|Knights Templar granted by Serlo FitzOdo in 1185. founded c.1185 dissolved 1308–12; Knights Hospitaller granted 1312 dissolved 1539; granted to Richard Andrews and Leonard Chamberlayne \|Combe Templariorum; Temple Comb Preceptory \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=202471 \|mname=Templecombe Templars Preceptory\|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40936 \|title=House of Knights Templar: The preceptory of Templecombe \|editor-first=William\|editor-last=Page \|publisher=Institute of Historical Research \|year=1911 \|work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 \|access-date=10 November 2011 }}[http://www.templars.org.uk/public/preceps/p_preceps_5_tcombe.htm Grand Priory of Knights Templar in England and Wales] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629205036/http://www.templars.org.uk/public/preceps/p_preceps_5_tcombe.htm \|date=29 June 2008 }}{{cite web\|url=http://www.timeteam.k1z.com/index.php?pid=45 \|title=1996 - 03 - Templecombe, Somerset \|access-date=28 January 2008 \|publisher=Unofficial Time Team Site \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080302153520/http://www.timeteam.k1z.com/index.php?pid=45 \|archive-date=2 March 2008 }} Templecombe {{coord\|50.999803
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valign=top \|Witham Friary ⁺This site has a current non-monastic ecclesiastic function. \|150px \|Carthusian monks founded 1178/9 (1180/1); dissolved 1539; granted to Ralph Hopton 1544/5; church now in parochial use \|The Friary Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Witham The Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John Baptist and All Saints, Witham Friary (former lay brothers' church) ____________________ Witham Abbey Witham Charterhouse; Selwood Friary \|{{cite web \|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13415 \|title=Witham Friary Somerset \|access-date=15 December 2015 \|work=A Vision of Britain through time }}{{cite book \|last=Reid \|first= Robert Douglas \|title=Some buildings of Mendip \|year=1979 \|publisher=The Mendip Society \|isbn=0-905459-16-4\|pages=16–17 }}{{cite web \|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51418#s11 \|title=Witham Fiary (St Mary) \|editor=Samuel Lewis \|publisher=Institute of Historical Research \|year=1848 \|work=A Topographical Dictionary of England \|access-date=10 November 2011 }} {{cite web\|url=http://www.contextone.co.uk/online_reports/downloads/EVA_WFS_report.pdf \|title=Land adjoining Gramarye, Witham Friary, Somerset. \|access-date=2 September 2007 \|work=Context One Archaeological Services \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070820141744/http://www.contextone.co.uk/online_reports/downloads/EVA_WFS_report.pdf \|archive-date=20 August 2007 \|url-status=dead }}{{cite web \|url=http://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/ppoweruk/result.php?use%5B%5D=CPI&year_early=1550£71=227&shilling71=&pence71=&amount=227&year_source=1550&year_result=2006 \|title=Purchasing Power of British Pounds from 1264 to 2006 \|access-date=2 September 2007 \|work=Measuring worth.com \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927033143/http://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/ppoweruk/result.php?use%5B%5D=CPI&year_early=1550£71=227&shilling71=&pence71=&amount=227&year_source=1550&year_result=2006 \|archive-date=27 September 2007 \|url-status=dead }}{{cite web \|url=http://www.somersetlarders.com/localhistory/historypages.php?page=Witham%20Friary \|title=Local History — Witham Friary \|access-date=2 September 2007 \|work=Somerset Larders.com }} Witham Friary {{coord\|51.167222
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valign=top \|Woodspring Priory ^This site has a current non-ecclesiastic function. \|150px \|Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine (community founded at Dodlinch c.1210); transferred here before 1226; dissolved 1539; granted to William and John Lacy 1559/60; currently in use as an exhibuiltion centre for artwork; (LTThe current trustee of this site is the Landmark Trust) \|The Priory Church of the honour of the Holy Trinity, Saint Mary the Virgin and Saint Thomas the Martyr of Canterbury, Worspring ____________________ Worspring Priory \|{{NHLE \|num=1057100 \|desc=Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary \|accessdate=19 October 2007}} Weston-super-Mare {{coord\|51.390578
2.944908\|format=dms\|type:landmark_region:GB\|name=Woodspring Priory}}
valign=top \|Worminster \| \|Saxon minster \|Wormester \|
valign=top \|Wyrall Nunnery \| \|alleged early nunneryWyrall Nunnery, considered legendary by W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, Volume 4, p.1623 \|St Peter ____________________ Wyrall Hill Nunnery \|
valign=top \|Yenston Priory ^#No identifiable trace of the monastic foundation remains at this site. \| \|Benedictine monks alien house: cell or grange(?) dependent on St Sever; founded before c.1090 (before 1100) by Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester (Hugh Abrincis); mentioned in the reign of Edward I; doubtful it ever had status of priory; granted to Eton College c.1468; exchanged for other lands; held by Sir Thomas Bell by 1548; house possibly built on site 16th century; adjacent fields called 'Priory Plot' and 'Priors' possibly associated with the grange \| \|{{PastScape\|mnumber=202479 \|mname=\|accessdate=10 October 2015}}{{cite web\|title=Benedictine priory, Yenston\|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/53958\|work=Somerset Historic Environment Record\|publisher=Somerset County Council\|access-date=26 September 2010}} Henstridge {{coord\|50.988692
2.410748\|format=dms\|type:landmark_region:GB\|name=Yenston Priory}} or {{coord\|50.9876287
2.4145246\|format=dms\|type:landmark_region:GB\|name=Yenston Priory}}

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|Athelney Abbey ^#

|File:King Alfreds Monument.jpg

|possible early hermitage or monastery founded c.878?;
Benedictine? monks
founded c.888 by King Alfred (possibly enlarging pre-existing establishment);
Benedictine monks
(re)founded c.960;
dissolved 8 February 1539; granted to John Clayton 1544/5;
now on private land, the site of church is marked by a monument erected 1801

|The Abbey of Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Athelwine, Athelney

|{{PastScape|mnumber=191911 |mname=Athelney Abbey|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40922 |title=Houses of Benedictine monks: The abbey of Athelney |editor-first=William|editor-last=Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 |access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{cite book|last=Adkins|first=Lesley|author2=Roy Adkins |title=A field Guide to Somerset Archaeology|publisher=Dovecote Press|location=Stanbridge|year=1992|isbn=0-946159-94-7|pages=21–22}}{{NHLE |num=1173838 |desc=King Alfred's Monument with railings |accessdate=9 February 2007}}

Athelney
{{coord|51.059753

2.933878|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Athelney Abbey}}

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|Bablew Grange

|Cluniac monks
grange and chapelBablew: given as priory by Tanner, Notitia Monastica dependent on Montacute

|Bablew Priory

|{{PastScape|mnumber=1303372 |mname=Bablew Grange|accessdate=11 November 2011}}
Tintinhull
{{coord|50.9727

2.7207|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Bablew Priory}}

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|Banwell Monastery

|Saxon monastery
granted to Asser by Alfred c.888;
St Andrew's Church, Banwell, possibly on site (alternative possible sites)

|{{PastScape|mnumber=194496 |mname=Banwell Court|accessdate=11 November 2011}}

{{coord|51.3281983

2.8622335|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Banwell Monastery (alleged site)}} (alleged)
{{coord|51.3220536

2.8661066|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Banwell Monastery (possible site)}} (possible)
{{coord|51.3281111

2.8632313|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Banwell Monastery (possible site)}} (possible)

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|Barlynch Priory

|Augustinian Canons Regular
founded between 1154 and 1189 (between 1174(?) and 1220), reputedly by William de Say;
dissolved before July 1537; granted to Sir John Wallop 1538/9;
remains now on site of Barlynch Farm;
now in ownership of Working for Wildlife

|The Priory Church of Saint Nicholas, Barlinch
____________________
Barlinch Priory

|{{PastScape|mnumber=36537 |mname=Barlinch Priory|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40931 |title=Houses of Augustinian canons: The priory of Barlynch |editor-first=William|editor-last=Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 |access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{cite book|last=Bush|first=Robin|author-link=Robin Bush (historian)|title=Somerset: The complete guide|publisher=Dovecote Press|location=Wimborne, Dorset|year=1994|isbn=1-874336-26-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/somersetcomplete0000bush/page/46 46]|url=https://archive.org/details/somersetcomplete0000bush/page/46}}{{NHLE |num=1237516 |desc=Barlich Farmhouse |accessdate=12 July 2009}}

Brompton Regis
{{coord|51.050134

3.5295886|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Barlinch Priory}}

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|Barrow Gurney Nunnery

|Benedictine nuns
founded c.1200 by ___ Gurney, Lord of Stoke Hamden;
dissolved 1536; granted to William Clerke 1544/5;
incorporated into Barrow Court

|The Blessed Virgin Mary and St Edmund, King and Martyr
____________________
Minchin Barrow Priory;
Minchinbarrow Priory
Bearwe Priory;
Borrow Gurney Priory

|{{PastScape|mnumber=197963 |mname=Barrow Court|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40924 |title=Houses of Benedictine nuns: The priory of Barrow Gurney |editor-first=William|editor-last=Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 |access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/BarrowGurney/index.html |title=Barrow Gurney |access-date=5 January 2008 |work=GenUKI }}

Barrow Gurney
{{coord|51.405947

2.672061|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Barrow Gurney Nunnery}}

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|Bath Abbey ⁺

|File:Bathabbey at night amcm.jpg

|Saxon nuns
founded c.676, reputedly by King Osric, who granted land to Bertana, abbess;
destroyed and rebuilt several times;
monks
refounded before 758;
secular? 775;
Benedictine? monks
refounded 963/4;
episcopal diocesan cathedral 1090;
dissolved 1539; granted to Humphrey Colles 1542/3;
conventual church now in parochial use

|The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Bath

|{{PastScape|mnumber=204213 |mname=Abbey Church of St Peter and St Paul|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=34341 |title=Bishops |author=Diana E. Greenway |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=2001 |work=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: volume 7: Bath and Wells |access-date=10 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130919124024/http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=34341 |archive-date=19 September 2013 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|title=Bath Abbey|url=http://www.uquebec.ca/musique/orgues/angleterre/batha.html#English | work=Robert Poliquin's Music and Musicians| publisher=Quebec University | access-date=18 September 2007}}{{cite web |author=Historic England |author-link=Historic England |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=442109 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071103232652/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442109 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-11-03 |title=Bath Abbey (442109) |work=Images of England }}{{cite web |url=http://www.sacred-destinations.com/england/bath-abbey |title=Bath Abbey |access-date=11 November 2011 |work=Sacred destinations }}

Bath, Somerset
{{coord|51.381253

2.358458|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Bath Abbey}}

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|Bedminster Monastery

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

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|Brent Cell ^~

|Benedictine monks
purported cell dependent on Glastonbury

|East Brent Cell

|{{coord|51.2625728

2.9415357|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=(purported) Brent Cell (very approx. loc.)}} (very approx)

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|Bridgwater Greyfriars ^

|Franciscan Friars (under the Custody of Bristol)
founded c.1245 by William Bruer (Briwere);
church consecrated 1445 (after rebuilt/extended);
dissolved 13 September 1538

|Bridge Water Friary

|{{PastScape|mnumber=190943 |mname=Bridgwater Greyfriars|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40940 |title=Friaries: The Franciscans at Bridgwater |editor-first=William|editor-last=Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 |access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/12435|title=Franciscan Friary and later mansion, Bridgwater|publisher=Somerset County Council|access-date=4 September 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/somerset/bridgwater/friarn/index.html|title=Friarn Meadow, Bridgwater, Somerset|date=30 April 2008|publisher=Wessex Archaeology|access-date=6 January 2010}}
{{cite web|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/2955970/Bridgwater-Friary-Somerset|title=Bridgwater Friary, Somerset|publisher=Wessex Archaeology|access-date=6 January 2010}}{{cite web|url=http://www.friarn.co.uk/medievaltiles/fmeadow.htm|title=Medieval decorated tile from Friarn Meadow, Bridgwater|publisher=Cattermoles Consultants|access-date=11 November 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004174318/http://www.friarn.co.uk/medievaltiles/fmeadow.htm|archive-date=4 October 2011}}

Bridgwater
{{coord|51.125828

3.006872|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Bridgwater Greyfriars}}

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|Bristol Austin Friars

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

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|Bristol Eremites Friars

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

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|Bristol Preceptory

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

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|Bruton Abbey

|150px

|Benedictine monks
abbey(?) founded c.1005 by Algar, Earl of Cornwall;
dissolved before 1086(?);
Augustinian Canons Regular
refounded 1127-1135 by William de Mohun
raised to abbey status 1511;
dissolved 1 April 1539; granted to Maurice Berkely 1545/6

|{{PastScape|mnumber=199997 |mname=Bruton Abbey|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40932 |title=Houses of Augustinian canons: The priories of Bruton and Burtle Moor |editor-first=William|editor-last=Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 |access-date=10 November 2011 }}

Bruton
{{coord|51.108478

2.450619|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Bruton Abbey}}

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|Buckland Priory

|rowspan=2|

|Augustinian Canons Regular
founded c.1166 by William de Arlegh (Erlegh), Lord of Durston;
dissolved c.1180;
Knights Hospitaller preceptory
refounded c.1180; dissolved 1433
together with priory of Sisters of St John of Jerusalem (see immediately below);
refounded c.1180; dissolved after 1500;
Augustinian Canons Regular
priory or hospital;
refounded after 1500;
dissolved 10 February 1539; granted to Alexander Popham and William Halley 1544/5;
site now occupied by Buckland Farm

|John the Baptist
____________________
Minchin Buckland Preceptory
Buckland Sororum

|rowspan=2|{{PastScape|mnumber=191893 |mname=Buckland Priory|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18668 |title=Durston |author=R W Dunning, C R Elrington (Editors), A P Baggs, M C Siraut |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1992 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6: Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and neighbouring parishes) |access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{NHLE |num=1060491 |desc=Lodge Farmhouse |accessdate=8 January 2009}}
{{cite web|url=http://www.vagg.org.uk/cvstudy/buckland.php |title=Notes on Buckland Priory |publisher=Vagg.org |access-date=6 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114082134/http://www.vagg.org.uk/cvstudy/buckland.php |archive-date=14 January 2012 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/43225|title=Mynchin Buckland Priory, Durston|work=Somerset Historic Environment Record|publisher=Somerset County Council|access-date=6 January 2010}}

Durston
{{coord|51.051956

3.006481|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Buckland Priory}}

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|Buckland Sisters of St John Priory

|Sisters of St John of Jerusalem
transferred from Carbrooke, Clanfield, Gosford, Hampton, Hogshaw, Shingay, Standon and Swingfield;
refounded c.1180;
together with Knights Hospitaller Preceptory on the site of former Augustinian Canons Regular priory (see immediately above);
dissolved after 1500;
Augustinian Canons Regular priory or hospital founded on site (see immediately above);
site now occupied by Buckland Farm

|St Mary and St Nicholas

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|Burtle Priory

|hermitage, endowed by William son of Godfrey of Eddington 1199;
Augustinian Canons Regular
priory cell dependent on Glastonbury 1267;
refounded before 1270;
independent from 1275;
dissolved 1536; granted to John and James Bisse 1553/4:
parochial church of St Philip and St James Church built on the site

|The Holy Trinity, the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Stephen
____________________
Burtle Moor Priory;
St Stephens Chapel, Sprauellissmede;
Byrkley Priory;
Burcle Priory;
Bercle Priory;
Brademers Priory

|{{PastScape|mnumber=192270 |mname=Burtle Priory|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.burtlevillage.co.uk/church_history.asp|title=About St Philip & St James Church|publisher=Burtle Village|access-date=6 January 2010}}

Burtle
{{coord|51.18566

2.8742|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Burtle Priory}}

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|Cannington Priory

|150px

|Benedictine nuns — from Dorset
founded c.1138 by Robert de Courcey;
transferred to Colwich, Staffordshire;
converted into a mansion;
reverted to nunnery;
dissolved 1536; granted to Edward Rogers 1538/9;
remains incorporated into Cannington Court, built on site

|Canyngton Nunnery

|{{PastScape|mnumber=190988 |mname=Cannington Priory|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40925 |title=Houses of Benedictine nuns: The priory of Cannington |editor-first=William|editor-last=Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 |access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.cannington.org.uk/prioryhistory.htm |title=Priory History |access-date=13 January 2008 |work=Cannington Online |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720053350/http://www.cannington.org.uk/prioryhistory.htm |archive-date=20 July 2011 }}
{{NHLE |num=1344930 |desc=Cannington Court |accessdate=13 January 2008}}{{NHLE |num=1059059 |desc=Church of St Mary |accessdate=13 January 2008}}

Cannington, Somerset
{{coord|51.150386

3.061522|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Cannington Nunnery}}

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|Charterhouse on Mendip

|Carthusian monks
grange (purported cell) dependent on Witham;
granted Robert May 1544/5

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|Cheddar Monastery

|reference to community 978; called a minster

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|Chewstoke Cell

|cell(?)
founded (?) by Elizabeth de Sancta Cruce;
dissolved before 1500(?)

|Holy Cross

|{{cite book|last=Ross|first=Lesley|title=Before the Lake|year=2004|publisher=Harptree History Society|isbn=0954883209|pages=20–21}}{{cite book|last=Gilchrist|first=Roberta|title=Gender and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Religious Women|year=1997|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=9780415156561|pages=183–185|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5I340PbJjNgC&q=Chewstoke+Cell+Monastery&pg=PA183}}

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|Clevedon Friary *

|Franciscan Friars Minor
extant

|Friary and Parish of the Immaculate Conception

|[http://www.friar.org/locations/clevedon.html Clevedon] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215155142/http://www.friar.org/locations/clevedon.html |date=15 February 2012 }}

{{coord|51.444295

2.8597444|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Clevedon Friary}}

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|Cleeve Abbey

|File:CleeveAbbey.JPG

|Cistercian monks — from Revesby
founded between 1186 and 1191, land granted by William de Roumare (Romara), Earl of Lincoln (building apparently begun by 1198 - 24 or 25 June 1198);
dissolved 1536; granted to Thomas, Earl of Sussex 1541/2; (EHThe current trustee of this site is English Heritage)

|Vallis Florida;
Clyve Abbey;
Cliff Abbey

|{{PastScape|mnumber=188617 |mname=Cleeve Abbey|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite book|last=Harrison|first=Steve|title=Cleeve Abbey Colour Handbook|publisher=English Heritage|year=2000|isbn=978-1-85074-760-4|pages=24–35}}{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40927 |title=House of Cistercian monks: The abbey of Cleeve |editor-first=William|editor-last=Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 |access-date=10 November 2011 }}
{{cite book|last=Platt|first=Colin|title=The Abbeys and Priories of Medieval England|publisher=Secker & Warburg|year=1984|isbn=978-0-436-37557-6|pages=24–34}}{{cite book|last=Robinson|first=David|author2=Janet Burton |author3=Nicola Coldestroyedeam |author4=Glyn Coppack |author5=Richard Fawcett |title=The Cistercian Abbeys of Britain|publisher=Batsford Ltd |year=1988|isbn=978-0-7134-8392-5|page=86}}{{cite book |title=Curiosities of Somerset |last=Leete-Hodge |first=Lornie |year=1985 |publisher=Bossiney Books |location=Bodmin |isbn=0-906456-98-3 |page=43 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/33918 |title=Cleeve Abbey, Washford |work=Somerset Historic Environment Record |publisher=Somerset County Council |access-date=13 July 2008}}{{cite book |last=James|first=Montagu Rhodes |title=Abbeys |publisher=The Ballantyne Press |year=1926 |pages=124–126}}

Washford/Old Cleeve
{{coord|51.155333

3.364781|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Cleeve Abbey}}

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|Dodlinch Priory ^~

|Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine
possibly initially dependent on Bristol;
associated with the Victorine abbey at Bristol;
founded c.1210 by William de Courtney;
transferred to new site at Woodspring ?before 1226;
dissolved 1230

|Dodelyng Priory

|{{PastScape|mnumber=192662 |mname=Woodspring Priory|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40935 |title=Houses of Augustinian canons: The priory of Worspring |editor-first=William|editor-last=Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 |access-date=10 November 2011 }}

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|Downside Abbey *This site has a current monastic function.

|File:Downside abbey2.jpg

|Benedictine monks
(community founded at Douai 1607);
transferred from Douai
founded 1814

|The Abbey Church of Saint Gregory the Great, Downside, Stratton-on-Fosse

|{{PastScape|mnumber=200728 |mname=Downside Abbey Church|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{NHLE |num=1058633 |desc=Abbey Church of St Gregory The Great, Downside Abbey and School |accessdate=24 March 2007}}

Stratton-on-the-Fosse
{{coord|51.253975

2.493594|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Downside Abbey}}

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|Dunster Priory ⁺This site has a current non-monastic ecclesiastic function.

|150px

|Benedictine monks
dependent on Bath;
founded c.1100 (after 1090) by William de Mohun;
dissolved 1539; granted to Humphrey Colles 1542/3;
church in parochial use as the Priory Church of St George

|Priory Church of St George

|{{PastScape|mnumber=36848 |mname=Dunster Priory|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40920 |title=Houses of Benedictine monks: The priory of Dunster |editor-first=William|editor-last=Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 |access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{NHLE |num=1057646 |desc=Priory Church of St George |accessdate=28 September 2007}}{{cite web|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/34816|title=Benedictine Priory, Dunster|work=Somerset Historic Environment Record|publisher=Somerset County Council|access-date=7 January 2010}}
{{cite web|url=http://www.dunstertithebarn.org.uk/history-church.htm|title=History of Dunster Church & Priory |publisher=Dunster Tithe Barn|access-date=7 January 2010}}{{cite book |last= Poyntz Wright|first= Peter|title= The Parish Church Towers of Somerset, Their construction, craftsmanship and chronology 1350 - 1550|year= 1981|publisher= Avebury Publishing Company|isbn= 0-86127-502-0|page=210}}{{cite web|url=http://exmoorencyclopedia.org.uk/contents-list/36-d/344-dunster-tithe-barn-.html |title=Dunster Tithe Barn |publisher=Everything Exmoor |access-date=11 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713015727/http://www.exmoorencyclopedia.org.uk/contents-list/36-d/344-dunster-tithe-barn-.html |archive-date=13 July 2011 }}

Dunster
{{coord|51.182239

3.445697|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Dunster Priory}}

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|Frome Monastery

|Saxon (Benedictine?) monks — purportedly from Malmesbury;
founded after 675 by St Aldhelm;
dissolved before 690?

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|Glastonbury Abbey

|150px

|Saxon monks
founded c.6th century(?);
Benedictine? monks
founded c.705;
secular 9th century?
Benedictine monks
(re)founded(?) c.960;
dissolved 15 November 1539; granted to Edward, Duke of Somerset 1547/8;
granted to Sir Peter Carew 1558/9;
ruins purchased by the Bath and Wells Diocesan Trust 1908;
now in ownership of the registered charity [https://www.glastonburyabbey.com/ Glastonbury Abbey Trust] with public access

|The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Glastonbury

|{{PastScape|mnumber=196705 |mname=Glastonbury Abbey|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40921 |title=Houses of Benedictine monks: The abbey of Glastonbury |editor-first=William|editor-last=Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 |access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{NHLE |num=1345447 |desc=Glastonbury Abbey |accessdate=11 November 2006}}{{cite book|last=Carley|first=James P|title=Glastonbury Abbey: The Holy House at the Head of the Moors Adventurous|publisher=St. Martin's Press|location=New York|isbn=0-906362-23-7|year=1996}}
{{cite book|last=Abrams|first=Lesley|author2=James Carley |title=The Archaeology and History of Glastonbury Abbey: Essays in Honour of the ninetieth birthday of C.A.Ralegh Radford|publisher=Boydell Press|year=1991|isbn=978-0-85115-284-4}}{{cite book|last=Carley|first=James P.|title=Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian Tradition|publisher=D.S.Brewer|year=2001|series=Arthurian Studies|isbn=978-0-85991-572-4}}{{cite book|last=Rouse|first=Robert Allen|author2=Cory James Rushton |title=The Medieval Quest for Arthur|publisher=The History Press Ltd|year=2005|isbn=978-0-7524-3343-1}}{{cite book|last=Rahtz|first=Philip|author2=Lorna Watts |title=Glastonbury: Myth and Archaeology|publisher=The History Press LTD|year=2003|edition=2|isbn=978-0-7524-2548-1|pages=85–126}}

Glastonbury
{{coord|51.145831

2.714022|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Glastonbury Abbey}}

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|Green Ore Cell(?)

|Benedictine monks
'cell of Glaston';
probable grange of Hinton Charterhouse

|Green Oare

|{{PastScape|mnumber=1301521 |mname=|accessdate=10 October 2015}}

{{coord|51.2485224

2.6074773|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Green Ore 'Cell'}}

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|Haselbury Priory

|hermitage to 1154;
Augustinian Canons Regular
William fitz Walter began house — apparently not completed; possibly destroyed in the contests of the barons

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|Hinton Priory

|150px

|Carthusian monks
(community founded 1222 at Hatherop, Gloucestershire 1222);
transferred here May 1232;
dissolved 1539;
now in private ownership without public access

|Hinton Charterhouse

|{{PastScape|mnumber=202965 |mname=Hinton Priory|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40928 |title=Houses of Carthusian monks: The priory of Hinton |editor-first=William|editor-last=Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 |access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{NHLE |num=1320809 |desc=The chapter house |accessdate=20 November 2006}}

Hinton Charterhouse
{{coord|51.3313356

2.3195931|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Hinton Charterhouse}}

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|Ilchester Blackfriars ^#

|Dominican Friars
founded between 1221 and 1260;
dissolved 1538;
demolished early 19th century

|{{PastScape|mnumber=196558 |mname=Ilchester Blackfriars|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66498 |title=Parishes: Ilchester |author=R. W. Dunning (editor), A. P. Baggs, R. J. E. Bush, Margaret Tomlinson |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1974 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 3 |access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/53016|title=Dominican friary, West Street, Ilchester|work=Somerset Historic Environment Record|publisher=Somerset County Council|access-date=4 September 2009}}

Ilchester
{{coord|51.000467

2.684781|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Illchester Friary}}

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|Ilchester Nunnery

|hospital founded c.1217-1220 by William Dennis (Dacus);
Augustinian Canonesses
refounded before 1281;
dissolved before 1463

|Whitehall Hospital of the Holy Trinity
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Blanchesale Hospital;
Whitehall Hospital

|{{PastScape|mnumber=196552 |mname=Whitehall Hospital |accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/53046|title=Augustinian nunnery, High Street, Ilchester|work=Somerset Historic Environment Record|publisher=Somerset County Council|access-date=4 September 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40946#s2|title=Hospitals: Ilchester and Langport'|last=Page|first=William|year=1911|work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2|publisher=British History Online|access-date=9 January 2010}}
James Stevens-Cox, A History of Ilchester, the ancient county town of Somerset nos. 1–6, 8 & 9 (1958), p. 129{{cite book|last=Power|first=Eileen|title=Medieval English Nunneries, c. 1275 to 1535|publisher=Biblo & Tannen Booksellers & Publishers Incorporat|year=1988|page=233|isbn=978-0-8196-0140-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ll6BuF4-kgC&q=Ilchester%20Nunnery&pg=PA233}}{{cite web|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/53010|title=Chapel, Whitehall hospital and nunnery, High Street, Ilchester|work=Somerset Historic Environment Record|publisher=Somerset County Council|access-date=9 January 2010}}

Ilchester
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2.682886|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Illchester Nunnery}}

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|Ilminster

|possible Saxon minster; land granted to Muchelney by King Ine; no record of community

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|Keynsham Abbey

|File:Keynsham abbey.jpg

|Augustinian Canons Regular
founded c.1170 by William, Earl of Gloucester
dissolved 1539; granted to Thomas Bridges, Esq 1552/3

|{{PastScape|mnumber=200923 |mname=Keynsham Abbey|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40930 |title=Houses of Augustinian canons: The abbey of Keynsham |editor-first=William|editor-last=Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 |access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{NHLE |num=1384577 |desc=Keynsham Abbey |accessdate=18 July 2007}}{{cite journal|last=Barrett|first=J.H.|year=1969|title=A Fipple Flute or Pipe from the Site of Keynsham Abbey|journal=The Galpin Society Journal|volume=22|pages=47–50|jstor=841627|doi=10.2307/841627}}

Keynsham
{{coord|51.413117

2.496744|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Keynsham Abbey}}

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|Kilve Chantry

|File:Kilvechantry.jpg

|founded 1329 by Simon de Furneaux;
dissolved late 14th century
damaged by fire in 1848

|{{PastScape|mnumber=189866 |mname=Kilve Chantry|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{NHLE |num=1345688 |desc=Remains of Chantry, abutting East side of Chantry Cottage |accessdate=7 October 2007}}{{cite book |title=Portrait of the Quantocks |last=Waite |first=Vincent |year=1964 |publisher=Robert Hale |location=London |isbn=0-7091-1158-4 |pages=67–70 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/30560|title=Remains of Chantry, abutting East side of Chantry Cottage, Sea Lane (West side), Kilve|work=Somerset Historic Environment Record|publisher=Somerset County Council|access-date=7 January 2010}}
{{cite web|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/34540|title=Kilve chantry, Kilve|work=Somerset Historic Environment Record|publisher=Somerset County Council|access-date=7 January 2010}}{{cite web|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/heritage-at-risk/search-register/list-entry/48507|title=Remains of Chantry at Kilve, Sea Lane, Kilve, West Somerset, Somerset|work=Buildings at Risk Register|publisher=Historic England|access-date=10 February 2018}}

Kilve
{{coord|51.189278

3.222686|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Kilve Chantry}}

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|Langley Priory

|uncertain order and foundation
house of St Mary, brothers or canons, short-lived establishment 12th century

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|Martock Priory

|granted to Humphry Colles 1542/3

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|Moorlynch Cell

|Benedictine monks
cell dependent on Glastonbury

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|Montacute Priory

|Cluniac monks
founded between c.1078 and 1102 by William, Count of Mortain
dissolved 1539; granted to Robert, Earl of Leicester 1573/4;
remains now part of Abbey Farmhouse

|Montecute;
Mons Acutus

|{{PastScape|mnumber=193145 |mname=Montacute Priory|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40926 |title=House of Cluniac monks: The priory of Montacute |editor-first=William|editor-last=Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 |access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/54294|title=Montacute Priory|work=Somerset Historic Environment Record|publisher=Somerset County Council|access-date=12 July 2009}}{{NHLE |num=1057256 |desc=Abbey Farmhouse |accessdate=11 July 2009}}

Montacute
{{coord|50.949767

2.719553|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Montacute Priory}}

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|Muchelney Abbey

|File:Muchelney Parish church, abbey foreground ruins.jpg

|Benedictine? monks
founded before 693 traditionally by King Ine;
destroyed in raids by the Danes(?)c.878
secular collegiate?
founded 939 by King Athelstan;
Benedictine monks
founded c.950 (959);
dissolved 3 January 1538; granted to Edward, Earl of Hertford 1537/8;
(EHThe current trustee of this site is English Heritage)

|Michelney Abbey

|{{PastScape|mnumber=193791 |mname=Muchelney Abbey|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40923 |title=Houses of Benedictine monks: The abbey of Muchelney |editor-first=William|editor-last=Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 |access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{NHLE |num=1236790 |desc=The Abbot's House, Muchelney Abbey |accessdate=25 September 2007}}

Muchelney
{{coord|51.016544

2.820378|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Muchelney Abbey}}

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|Pennard Minster

|Saxon minster

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|Pitminster

|possible Saxon minster

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|Potbury Priory

|Augustinian Canons Regular
possible priory dependent on Bristol — no record of cell

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|Regil Grange

|Cistercian monks
grange? dependent on Flaxley;
founded before 1200(?)

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|Stavordale Priory

|150px

|Augustinian Canons Regular — Vitorine
founded before 1243 by a member of the Lovel family;
merged with Taunton 1533;
granted to John, Earl of Oxford 1544/5;
conventual church converted into a private house, renovated and extended in 1905

|Slaverdale Priory

|{{PastScape|mnumber=202645|mname=Stavordale Priory|accessdate=11 June 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40933|title=The Priory of Stavordale|last=Page|first=William|year=1911|work=Houses of Augustinian Canons|publisher=British History Online|pages=139–141|access-date=11 June 2009}}{{cite book |title=Somerset: The complete guide |last=Bush |first=Robin |year=1994 |publisher=Dovecote Press |location=Wimborne, Dorset |isbn=1-874336-26-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/somersetcomplete0000bush/page/62 62] |url=https://archive.org/details/somersetcomplete0000bush/page/62 }}{{NHLE |num=1176699 |desc=Stavordale Priory |accessdate=8 December 2008}}

Charlton Musgrove
{{coord|51.086261

2.376161|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Stavordale Priory}}

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|Steep Holme Cell

|Augustinian Canons Regular
cell dependent on Studley, Oxfordshire;
founded before 1260;
dissolved before 1300

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|Stogursey Priory

|150px

|Benedictine monks
alien house: dependent on Lonlay 1183;
founded 1100-07: church granted by William de Falaise and his wife Geva;
granted to Eton College 1440; last prior left 1442

|Stoke Courcy Priory

|{{PastScape|mnumber=191224 |mname=Church of St Andrew|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40954 |title=Alien house: The priory of Stogursey |editor-first=William|editor-last=Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 |access-date=10 November 2011 }}C. Gathercole, An Archaeological Assessment of Stogursey, Somerset Urban Archaeology Surveys (English Heritage Extensive Urban Surveys/Somerset County Council 2003), with link to full report ([https://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/eus/stogursey_eus.html SW South-West Heritage Trust]).
{{cite journal|last=Kerr|first=William|year=1989|title=Black Abbey, the archbishops of Armagh and the Church of Derryaghy|journal=Lisburn Historical Society Journals|volume=7|url=http://www.lisburn.com/books/historical_society/volume7/volume7_3.html#abbey|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060105034311/http://www.lisburn.com/books/historical_society/volume7/volume7_3.html#abbey|archive-date=5 January 2006}}{{NHLE |num=1057404 |desc=Church of St. Andrew |accessdate=12 July 2008}}

Stogursey
{{coord|51.181111

3.140917|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Stogursey Priory}}

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|Taunton Priory ^#There is no identifiable trace of the monastic foundation remains at this site.

|150px

|secular collegiate
founded before 904;
Augustinian Canons Regular
founded c.1120 (c.1115) by William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester;
dissolved 1539; granted to Mathew Colehurst 1544/5;
part of remains now called 'Priory Barn';
converted into a cricket museum

|The Priory Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Taunton

|{{PastScape|mnumber=190832 |mname=Taunton Priory|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40934 |title=Houses of Augustinian canons: The priory of Taunton |editor-first=William|editor-last=Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 |access-date=10 November 2011 }}{{cite book | last = Hugo | first = Thomas | year = 1860 | title = The History of Taunton Priory in the County of Somerset. | url = https://archive.org/details/historytauntonp00hugogoog | publisher = J. R. Smith, London | isbn=978-1-4373-7535-0 }}{{cite web |url=http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/hes/downloads/EUS_TauntonText.pdf |title=English Heritage Extensive Urban Survey, An archaeological assessment of Taunton |last=Gathercole |first=Clare |access-date=11 November 2011 |publisher=Somerset County Council |year=2002 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717063217/http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/hes/downloads/EUS_TauntonText.pdf |archive-date=17 July 2011}}

Taunton
{{coord|51.018083

3.098203|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Taunton Priory}}

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|Taunton Whitefriars

|Carmelite Friars
licence granted 1341; revoked 1343; house never established

|{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40941 |title=Friaries: The Carmelites at Taunton |editor-first=William|editor-last=Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 |access-date=10 November 2011 }}

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|Templecombe Preceptory

|Knights Templar
granted by Serlo FitzOdo in 1185.
founded c.1185
dissolved 1308–12;
Knights Hospitaller
granted 1312
dissolved 1539; granted to Richard Andrews and Leonard Chamberlayne

|Combe Templariorum;
Temple Comb Preceptory

|{{PastScape|mnumber=202471 |mname=Templecombe Templars Preceptory|accessdate=11 November 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40936 |title=House of Knights Templar: The preceptory of Templecombe |editor-first=William|editor-last=Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 |access-date=10 November 2011 }}[http://www.templars.org.uk/public/preceps/p_preceps_5_tcombe.htm Grand Priory of Knights Templar in England and Wales] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629205036/http://www.templars.org.uk/public/preceps/p_preceps_5_tcombe.htm |date=29 June 2008 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.timeteam.k1z.com/index.php?pid=45 |title=1996 - 03 - Templecombe, Somerset |access-date=28 January 2008 |publisher=Unofficial Time Team Site |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080302153520/http://www.timeteam.k1z.com/index.php?pid=45 |archive-date=2 March 2008 }}

Templecombe
{{coord|50.999803

2.415361|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Templecombe Preceptory}}

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|Witham Friary ⁺This site has a current non-monastic ecclesiastic function.

|150px

|Carthusian monks
founded 1178/9 (1180/1);
dissolved 1539; granted to Ralph Hopton 1544/5;
church now in parochial use

|The Friary Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Witham

The Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John Baptist and All Saints, Witham Friary (former lay brothers' church)
____________________
Witham Abbey
Witham Charterhouse;
Selwood Friary

|{{cite web |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13415 |title=Witham Friary Somerset |access-date=15 December 2015 |work=A Vision of Britain through time }}{{cite book |last=Reid |first= Robert Douglas |title=Some buildings of Mendip |year=1979 |publisher=The Mendip Society |isbn=0-905459-16-4|pages=16–17 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51418#s11 |title=Witham Fiary (St Mary) |editor=Samuel Lewis |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1848 |work=A Topographical Dictionary of England |access-date=10 November 2011 }}
{{cite web|url=http://www.contextone.co.uk/online_reports/downloads/EVA_WFS_report.pdf |title=Land adjoining Gramarye, Witham Friary, Somerset. |access-date=2 September 2007 |work=Context One Archaeological Services |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070820141744/http://www.contextone.co.uk/online_reports/downloads/EVA_WFS_report.pdf |archive-date=20 August 2007 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/ppoweruk/result.php?use%5B%5D=CPI&year_early=1550£71=227&shilling71=&pence71=&amount=227&year_source=1550&year_result=2006 |title=Purchasing Power of British Pounds from 1264 to 2006 |access-date=2 September 2007 |work=Measuring worth.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927033143/http://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/ppoweruk/result.php?use%5B%5D=CPI&year_early=1550£71=227&shilling71=&pence71=&amount=227&year_source=1550&year_result=2006 |archive-date=27 September 2007 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.somersetlarders.com/localhistory/historypages.php?page=Witham%20Friary |title=Local History — Witham Friary |access-date=2 September 2007 |work=Somerset Larders.com }}

Witham Friary
{{coord|51.167222

2.365378|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Witham Friary}}

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|Woodspring Priory ^This site has a current non-ecclesiastic function.

|150px

|Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine
(community founded at Dodlinch c.1210);
transferred here before 1226;
dissolved 1539; granted to William and John Lacy 1559/60;
currently in use as an exhibuiltion centre for artwork;
(LTThe current trustee of this site is the Landmark Trust)

|The Priory Church of the honour of the Holy Trinity, Saint Mary the Virgin and Saint Thomas the Martyr of Canterbury, Worspring
____________________
Worspring Priory

|{{NHLE |num=1057100 |desc=Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary |accessdate=19 October 2007}}

Weston-super-Mare
{{coord|51.390578

2.944908|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Woodspring Priory}}

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|Worminster

|Saxon minster

|Wormester

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|Wyrall Nunnery

|alleged early nunneryWyrall Nunnery, considered legendary by W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, Volume 4, p.1623

|St Peter
____________________
Wyrall Hill Nunnery

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|Yenston Priory ^#No identifiable trace of the monastic foundation remains at this site.

|Benedictine monks
alien house: cell or grange(?) dependent on St Sever;
founded before c.1090 (before 1100) by Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester (Hugh Abrincis);
mentioned in the reign of Edward I;
doubtful it ever had status of priory;
granted to Eton College c.1468; exchanged for other lands; held by Sir Thomas Bell by 1548;
house possibly built on site 16th century;
adjacent fields called 'Priory Plot' and 'Priors' possibly associated with the grange

|{{PastScape|mnumber=202479 |mname=|accessdate=10 October 2015}}{{cite web|title=Benedictine priory, Yenston|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/53958|work=Somerset Historic Environment Record|publisher=Somerset County Council|access-date=26 September 2010}}

Henstridge
{{coord|50.988692

2.410748|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Yenston Priory}}
or
{{coord|50.9876287

2.4145246|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Yenston Priory}}

Notes

References

Category:Medieval sites in England

Category:Religion in Somerset

Somerset

Category:Lists of buildings and structures in Somerset

List of monastic houses in Somerset

See also

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