Monastery of Our Lady of Hyning

The house was built by Lancaster merchant William Sanderson, and sold in 1809 to John Bolden. Bolden was born John Leonard, but changed his name as a condition of inheriting his uncle William Bolden's estate in 1800. in 1872 the Bolden family had an estate of {{convert|246|acres}} in Warton.{{cite book |url=https://mourholme.co.uk/users/UserFiles/File/Warton%201800%20-%201850%20How%20a%20North%20Lancashire%20Parish%20Changed.pdf |title=Warton 1800-1850: How a North Lancashire Parish Changed |date=2005 |publisher=Mourholme Local History Society |isbn=978-0953429820 |pages=11, 18}} By 1950 the house was owned by Arthur Peel, 2nd Earl Peel (1901-1969). His expenditure on renovation work, at a time of post-war restrictions, caused The Hyning to be discussed in Parliament in 1950.{{Cite Hansard|house=House of Commons |title=Building Licence, Lancashire |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1950/nov/06/building-licence-lancashire |date=6 November 1950 |column_start=579 |column_end=580}} It was sold on Lord Peel's death and was acquired by the Cistercians in 1974.{{cite news |last1=Moffitt |first1=Dominic |title=Lancaster grade-II listed manor set for renovation |url=https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/lancaster-grade-ii-listed-manor-19962289 |access-date=25 August 2024 |work=Lancs Live |date=4 March 2021 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Other Gardens Lost and Found |url=http://www.ralphhancock.com/lostgardens%2Cunitedkingdom |website=ralphhancock.com |access-date=24 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912162206/http://www.ralphhancock.com/lostgardens%2Cunitedkingdom |archive-date=12 September 2016 |url-status=dead}}

Originally a country house, the original block has two storeys with an attic and three bays. A two-storey wing was added to the right in the mid-19th century, and a similar wing to the left in the mid-20th century. The building is in sandstone, the wings are stuccoed, and the roof is slated. Most of the windows are sashes, some with baseless Tuscan columns as mullions. To the left is the front of a pavilion that includes a Diocletian window and a pediment.{{NHLE|num=1071823 |desc=Hyning Priory}}

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The gardens were designed in 1950 by Ralph Hancock, known for his design of Derry & Toms roof garden.{{cite web |last1=Bennis |first1=Ed |title=The Hyning Research Report |url=https://www.arnsidesilverdaleaonb.org.uk/uploads/2016/04/the_hyning_research.pdf |publisher=Arnside and Silverdale AONB |access-date=24 August 2024 |date=2015}} They are in the Arts and Crafts style.{{cite web |title=The garden of the Monastery of Our Lady of Hyning [flyer for visit] |url=https://www.lancsgt.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Hyning-details-for-members-July.pdf |publisher=Lancashire Gardens Trust |access-date=24 August 2024 |date=2019}} They were the last gardens Hancock designed before his death, and were completed by his son Bramley.

In 1974 a group of sisters from the Bernardine Cistercians of Esquermes came from communities in Slough and Westcliffe-on-Sea to found a new community, St Bernard's Priory,{{cite web |title=St Bernard's Priory (IOE01/14561/20) Archive Item - Images Of England Collection |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/item/IOE01/14561/20 |website=historicengland.org.uk |publisher=Historic England |access-date=27 August 2024 |language=en |date=2005}} which became the Monastery of Our Lady of Hyning. {{As of|2024}} there are nine sisters in the community.{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.bernardine.org/hyning-about-us |website=Bernardine Cistercians |access-date=24 August 2024}} The monastery offers guest house accommodation for individuals or groups, while the sisters occupy the former servants' accommodation in a separate wing.{{cite web |title=Hospitality |url=https://www.bernardine.org/hyning-hospitality |website=Bernardine Cistercians |access-date=24 August 2024}} An icon studio hosts regular groups, courses and workshops in iconography, the writing of icons.{{cite web |title=Icon Studio |url=https://www.bernardine.org/icon-studio |website=Bernardine Cistercians |access-date=24 August 2024}}

There are sister communities at Brownshill, Gloucestershire;{{cite web |title=Brownshill - Welcome |url=https://www.bernardine.org/brownshill-about-us |website=Bernardine Cistercians |access-date=24 August 2024}} Lille, France (the mother house of the order);{{cite web |title=La Plaine |url=https://www.bernardine.org/laplaine-france |website=Bernardine Cistercians |access-date=24 August 2024}} Bafor, Diébougou Department, Burkina Faso;{{cite web |title=Bafor |url=https://www.bernardine.org/bafor-burkina-faso |website=Bernardine Cistercians |access-date=24 August 2024}} and Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.{{cite web |title=Goma |url=https://www.bernardine.org/goma |website=Bernardine Cistercians |access-date=24 August 2024}}

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• {{official website|https://www.bernardine.org/hyning-about-us}}
• {{cite web |title=The Hyning Monastery, Warton |url=https://www.ajmdecorating.co.uk/portfolio_page/the-hyning-monastery-warton/ |website=Kendal Decorators - AJM decorating |access-date=}} Photographs of the building's exterior
• [https://www.photonorth.co.uk/media/daec73df-96f2-47cf-b8c8-2c8e67d8464c-warton-02a-aerial-view-of-hyning-monastery Aerial view of the monastery and gardens]

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