List of monastic houses in Surrey

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

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|Almners Priory

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|17th century priory

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1179345 Pastscape - Detailed Result: ALMNERS PRIORY]

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|Bermondsey Abbey

|colspan=4|Historical county location. See List of monastic houses in London

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|Bermondsey Minster

|colspan=4|Historical county location. See List of monastic houses in London

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|Chertsey Abbey

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|Saxon Benedictine? monks
founded 666;
destroyed in raids by the Danes c.872
secular
Benedictine monks
refounded before 964;
dissolved 1537

|The Abbey Church of Saint Peter, Chertsey

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=394421 Pastscape - Detailed Result: CHERTSEY ABBEY][http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=37813 British History Online — House of Benedictine monks: Abbey of Chertsey — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 2 (pp.55-64)]

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|Guildford Blackfriars

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|Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of London)
founded 1275 by Queen Eleanor of Provence, widow of Henry III;
proposal by Edward III to refound as a Dominican nunnery never transpired;
dissolved 1538;
site now occupied by 'The Friary' shopping centre

|St Dominic?

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=250331 Pastscape - Detailed Result: GUILDFORD BLACKFRIARS][http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=37822 British History Online — Friaries: Dominican Friars of Guildford — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 2 (pp.114-116)]

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|Guildford Friars de Ordine Martyrum

|Friars de Ordine Martyrum
founded 1260;
possible Polish congregation of Crutched Friars;
dissolution unknown

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=250314 Pastscape - Detailed Result: GUILDFORD FRIARY][http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1322391 Pastscape — Detailed Result: GUILDFORD FRIARY OF FRIARS DE ORDINE MARTYRUM]

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|Guildford Crutched Friars (?)

|alleged house of Crutched FriarsGuildford Crutched Friars - sole source John Speed, (1627), History of Great Britaine 2nd Ed. (in the [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_L9DE_ER5tAsC/page/n671/mode/2up 1st Ed.] (1611) St Cross was ascribed to the Dominicans)
possibly identical with Polish Crutched Friars house (see immediately above)Guildford Crutched Friars - Polish congregation?: Dr Little

|St Cross?

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=250311 Pastscape - Detailed Result: GUILDFORD FRIARY]

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|Horne Priory

|Carthusian monks
projected: king's licence granted to Mary de St Paul, Countess of Pembroke c.1345 to endow and build a house for Carthusians, appears not to have been completed

|Hourne Priory

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|Horsley Priory ^≈

|Benedictine nuns
supposedly at Rowbarnes, East Horseley;
dissolution unknown

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=394181 Pastscape - Detailed Result: MONUMENT NO. 394181]

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|Laleham Abbey *

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|Benedictine monks
founded 13th century;
The Community of St Peter the Apostle (Westminster)

|[http://www.s-george.org.uk/laleham.html Laleham Abbey]

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|Leatherhead Priory (?)^≈

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|Cistercian monks
alleged monastery, founded 1263; incorporated into house called 'The Priory'; evidence lacking

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=397199 Pastscape - Detailed Result: MONUMENT NO. 397199]

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|Merton Priory

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

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|Newark Priory

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|possible hospital
Augustinian Canons Regular
founded c.1189 (during or before the reign of Richard I) by Ruald de Calva and his wife Beatrice;
dissolved 1539; granted to Sir Antony Brown 1544/5

|The Priory Church of The Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Thomas a Becket, Newark
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Adbury Priory;
Aldebury Priory

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=394101 Pastscape - Detailed Result: NEWARK PRIORY][http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=37818 British History Online — Houses of Austin canons: Priory of Newark — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 2 (pp.102-105)]{{cite book|last=Cobbett|first=William|title=History of the Protestant Reformation|year=1827|publisher=William Cobbett}}

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|Oxenford Priory (?)

|Benedictine nuns
foundation unknown;
manor belonged to Waverley (from before 1147), "no trace of separate foundation"Oxenford - Dugdale, (1468), Monasticon Anglianum vi 1624,
dissolved after 1305(?)

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|Reigate Priory

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|hospital founded 1217-1235 by William de Warren, Earl of Surrey;
Augustinian Canons Regular
founded 1235;
also given as Crutched Friars (possibly Flemish branch, or earlier Fratres Cruciferi 'Augustinian Hospitallers')
dissolved 1535; granted to William Lord Howard 1541/2;
conventual buildings largely demolished and replaced by a house 1541;
rebuilt as a Palladian mansion 1771;
since 1948 in use as a school located in public Priory Park, with a public museum

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=400334 Pastscape - Detailed Result: REIGATE PRIORY][http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=37819 British History Online — Houses of Austin canons: Priory of Reigate — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 2 (pp.105-107)]

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|Richmond Friary (Greyfriars and Austin Friars)

|colspan=4|Historical county location. See List of monastic houses in London

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|Sheen Priory

|colspan=4|Historical county location. See List of monastic houses in London

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|Sheen Friary

|colspan=4|Historical county location. See List of monastic houses in London

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|Syon Priory

|colspan=4|Historical county location. See List of monastic houses in London

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|Southwark Priory

|colspan=4|Historical county location. See List of monastic houses in London

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|Tandridge Priory

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|hospital founded 1189 by Odo de Dammartin, possibly ceasing to exist 1218-22;
Augustinian Canons Regular
founded after(?) 1218 (c.1200);
dissolved 1538 (1537); granted to John Rede 1537/8

|The Priory Church of Saint James, Tandridge
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Tanregge Priory

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=403873 Pastscape - Detailed Result: TANDRIDGE PRIORY][http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=37821 British History Online — Houses of Austin canons: Priory of Tandridge — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 2 (pp.112-113)][http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-287915-tandridge-priory-tandridge-surrey Tandridge Priory - Tandridge - Surrey - England | British Listed Buildings][https://archive.org/details/historyoftanridg00healuoft The history of Tanridge priory, Surrey : and some account of the Canons Regular of the Order of St. Augustine, commonly called the Austin canons : Heales, Alfred, 1827-1898 : ...]

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|Tooting Bec Priory

|colspan=4|Historical county location. See List of monastic houses in London

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|Wanborough Grange

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|Cistercian monks
grange of Waverley, founded 1130;
dissolved 1536;
barn restored 1997, owned by Guildford Borough Council, maintained by the Guildford Museum

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|Waverley Abbey

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|Cistercian monks
dependent on L'Aumône;
founded 24 November 1128 (or 28 October 1129, possibly when functional for full regular life) by William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester;
dissolved 1536; granted to Sir William Fitz William 1536/7; (EH)

|The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Waverley

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=247212 Pastscape - Detailed Result: WAVERLEY ABBEY][http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=37815 British History Online — House of Cistercian monks: Abbey of Waverley — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 2 (pp.77-89)][http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/abbeys/waverley_abbey.htm English Abbeys - Waverley Abbey]
{{Cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/events.aspx?a=0&hob_id=247212 |title=WAVERLEY ABBEY, Investigation History |access-date=2007-07-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071002110050/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/events.aspx?a=0&hob_id=247212 |archive-date=2007-10-02 |url-status=dead }}[https://archive.org/details/historyofwaverly00kerruoft A history of Waverly Abbey, in the county of Surrey : Kerry, Charles : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive]

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|Woking Monastery

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|Saxon monastery
purported dependency of Peterborough
founded c.690 (in the time of Abbot Cuthbert)
granted to Peterborough by Brordar, and ealdorman, with the consent of Offa;
thought to have been destroyed in raids by the Danes 871

|St Peter
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Wockingas Monastery;
Wocingas Minster;
Old Woking Monastery;
Woking Minster

|[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=394152 Pastscape - Detailed Result: OLD WOKING MONASTERY]

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The following establishments have no monastic connection:

Nutfield Priory — hotel in Nutfield, Surrey

Notes

References

Citations

Bibliography

Binns, Alison (1989) Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 1: Dedications of Monastic Houses in England and Wales 1066–1216, Boydell
Cobbett, William (1868) List of Abbeys, Priories, Nunneries, Hospitals, And Other Religious Foundations in England and Wales and in Ireland, Confiscated, Seized On, or Alienated by the Protestant "Reformation" Sovereigns and Parliaments
Knowles, David & Hadcock, R. Neville (1971) Medieval Religious Houses England & Wales. Longman
Morris, Richard (1979) Cathedrals and Abbeys of England and Wales, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
Thorold, Henry (1986) Collins Guide to Cathedrals, Abbeys and Priories of England and Wales, Collins
Thorold, Henry (1993) Collins Guide to the Ruined Abbeys of England, Wales and Scotland, Collins
Wright, Geoffrey N., (2004) Discovering Abbeys and Priories, Shire Publications Ltd.
English Cathedrals and Abbeys, Illustrated, Odhams Press Ltd.
Map of Monastic Britain, South Sheet, Ordnance Survey, 2nd edition, 1954

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List of monastic houses in Surrey

See also

Notes

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