The following is a list of the monastic houses in Herefordshire, England.
| Foundation | Image | Communities & provenance | Formal name or dedication & Alternative names | Online references & location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aconbury Priory | Sisters of St John of Jerusalem with brethren founded 13th century (c.1200) by Margery (Margaret), wife of Walter de Lacy on a site granted by King John; with a hospital, and attached to the preceptory of Dinmore; Augustinian Canonesses refounded 1237 with Papal permission; dissolved 1539 (?); granted to Hugh de Harry 1541/2; priory church (restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott 1863) in parochial use as the Parish Church of Saint John until 1967 | The Priory Church of the Holy Cross, Aconbury St John the Baptist ____________________ Acornbury Priory | 51.9979°N -2.7052°W | ||
| Acton Beauchamp Monastery | grant of land 718 (727?) as "perpetual dwelling of servants of God", otherwise unknown | ||||
| Archenfield Monastery | founded before 914–917, when Cyfeiliog, 'Bishop of Archenfield' was captured by Norsemen | ||||
| Aymestrey Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine transferred from Shobdon; founded c.1150(?); dissolution unknown: transferred to Wigmore | | |||
| Barton Priory? | Benedictine monks founded before 1199 (recorded by Gervase of Canterbury — possibly Brockbury (Colwall)) | ||||
| Belmont Abbey * | Benedictine monks founded 1859; extant Roman Catholic priory-cathedral founded 1859 status raised to abbey-cathedral 1917; dissolved 1920; see transferred to St David's Cathedral, Cardiff | The Abbey Church of Saint Michael and All Angels, Belmont | [1] [2] 52.0393°N -2.7564°W | ||
| Beodune Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine transferred from Wigmore c.1155; founded c.1155(?); dissolution unknown; transferred to Shobdon after 1155? | Byton Priory? | |||
| Bosbury Preceptory | Knights Templar founded c.1217–1219 by William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke; dissolved 1308–12; Knights Hospitaller founded 1312; dissolved 1410; merged with Dinmore and Garway 1410; house named 'Temple Court' possibly built on site 18th century | Upleadon Preceptory | 52.0873°N -2.4524°W | ||
| Cheleburne Priory? | Augustinian Canons Regular (possibly Chirbury Priory, Shropshire) | Chalborn Priory; possibly Pynkney Priory possibly Chirbury Priory | |||
| Clifford Priory ^ | Cluniac monks alien house: dependent on Lewes, Sussex founded 1129-30 by Simon fitz Richard; became denizen: independent from sometime between 1351 and 1374; dissolved 1536; granted to William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke 1553; site occupied by Priory Farm, which probably incorporates monastic remains | The Blessed Virgin Mary | 52.0942°N -3.0913°W | ||
| Colwall Priory | Benedictine monks cell dependent on Great Malvern, Worcestershire; founded before 1199; dissolved ? | Brockbury Priory | 52.0757°N -2.3953°W | ||
| Craswall Priory | Grandmontine monks alien house: dependent on Grandmont; founded c.1225 by Walter de Lacy; dissolved 1462; granted to God's House College, Cambridge 1462 | St Mary's Priory | [3] [4] [5] 52.0325°N -3.0621°W | ||
| Dinmore Monastery (?) | order and foundation unknown; small monastic community apparently existed prior to the arrival of the Knights (see immediately below) | ||||
| Dinmore Preceptory | Knights Hospitaller founded before 1189; chapel 14th century; dissolved before 1535: privately leased; granted to Sir Thomas Palmer in 1548; chapel restored 1886 by H F St John | Chapel of St John of Jerusalem; Dynmore Preceptory | 52.1486°N -2.7529°W | ||
| Dore Abbey +, Abbey Dore | Cistercian monks — from Morimond founded 26 April 1147 by Robert Ewyas; dissolved 1537; granted to John Scudamore 1539/40; church restored 1633 and now in parochial use | Abbey Dore | [6] [7] [8] [9] 52.039°N -2.756°W | ||
| Dulas Monastery | Benedictine monks purportedly founded here; transferred to Ewyas Harold | ||||
| Ewyas Harold Priory | Benedictine monks cell dependent on Gloucester; founded after 1100 by Harold son of Ralph of the Vexin: church of St Michael granted by Harold, Lord of Ewyas, purportedly first established at Dulas; dissolved 1358 monks withdrawn due to lack of revenue | St James and St Bartholomew | 51.9529°N -2.8944°W | ||
| Flanesford Priory ^ | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1346/47 by Richard Talbot, 2nd Baron Talbot; dissolved 1537; granted to George, Earl of Shrewsbury 1538/39; converted into a farm; remains now incorporated into a private house | The Priory Church of Saint Mary the Virgin and Saint John the Baptist, Flanesford | [10] 51.8715°N -2.6123°W | ||
| Garway Preceptory | Knights Templar founded 1185-88: grant made by Henry II; dissolved 1308–12; Knights Hospitaller refounded after 1312; merged with Dinmore before 1489; dissolved before 1535 with Dinmore | 51.8982°N -2.7934°W | |||
| Garway Clas | Celtic monks — clas to 11th century? | ||||
| Hentland Monastery | Celtic monks purportedly founded 6th century by St Dubricius | 51.9343°N -2.6661°W | |||
| Hereford Cathedral Priory | secular episcopal diocesan cathedral founded 669 (680); extant; Benedictine monks — abbey? founded c.1025 built early 11th century; destroyed 1055; dissolved before 1066; rebuilt 12th century by Bishop Renhelm | The Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Ethelbert in Hereford | 52.0543°N -2.716°W | ||
| Saint Guthlac's Priory, Hereford | probable Saxon minster secular collegiate: St Guthlac's Collegiate Church founded before 1066; Benedictine monks — monastic church or chapel founded c.1101; united with Hereford priory; badly damaged in the Baron's War c.1143; and amalgamated with Hereford Priory 1143; transferred to new site outside the town (see immediately below) | St Guthlac's in the Castle | 52.0518°N -2.7124°W | ||
| Hereford Priory | secular collegiate: St Peter's Collegiate Church founded before 1084; Benedictine monks transferred from earlier site (see immediately above); dependent on Gloucester; granted to Gloucester Abbey by Hugh de Lacy 1100; dissolved 1538; granted to John ap Rice 1542/43 | St Guthlac St Peter, St Paul and St Guthlac | 52.058°N -2.7083°W | ||
| Hereford Blackfriars — earlier site | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Oxford) founded 1246 by Sir John Daniel; transferred to new site 1322 (see immediately below) | 52.0576°N -2.723°W (approx) | |||
| Hereford Blackfriars | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Oxford) founded 1246 at earlier site (see immediately above); transferred to new site 1322; dissolved; granted to Elizabeth Wynne 1562/63 | 52.0599°N -2.7139°W | |||
| Hereford Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars Minor (under the Custody of Bristol) founded before 1228; dissolved 1538 | ||||
| Hereford Preceptory | Knights Hospitaller | ||||
| Holme Lacy | projected house of Premonstratensian Canons c.1235; daughter house of Lavendon; establishment never implemented | colspan-2 | St Mary and St Thomas Martyr | ||
| Kilpeck Priory # | Benedictine monks founded c.1134 by Hugh, son of William the Norman who granted the church to Gloucester; dissolved 1428 when the cell was united to Gloucester; granted to the Bishop of Gloucester | Kilpecke Priory | 51.9684°N -2.8058°W | ||
| Kinsham Grange | Benedictine monks alien house; | 52.2814°N -2.9102°W (supposed) 52.2704°N -2.9393°W (possible) | |||
| Leominster nunnery | |||||
| Leominster Priory + | Saxon nuns (possibly also monks) purportedly built c.660 by Merwald, King of West Mercia; destroyed in raids by the Danes 9th century; secular canons collegiate refounded 9th century; nuns 9th century; destroyed 1046; Benedictine monks founded after 1123: ruined monastery granted to Reading by Henry I, confirmed by Richard, Bishop of Hereford; rebuilt 12th century, fully conventual by 1139; dissolved 1539and granted to the bailiffs and burgesses of Leominster | St Peter (660); The Priory Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Leominster (12th century) | [12] 52.2294°N -2.7357°W | ||
| Leominster Priory | Cluniac monks | ||||
| Limebrook Priory | Augustinian Canonesses (or Benedictine nuns? founded c.1189 (during or before the reign of Richard I) by Robert de Lingen or a member of the Mortimer family; Augustinian Canonesses 1516 (in the time of Bishop Booth); dissolved 28 December 1539; granted to John West and Robert Gratwick 1553 | St Mary ____________________ Lymbroke Priory | 52.2889°N -2.9195°W | ||
| Moccas Clas | Celtic monks reputedly founded 6th century by St Dubricius from Hennland on Wye; dissolved before 1066? | Mochros | |||
| Monkland Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: cell dependent on Conches founded before 1100; dissolved c.1414 | ||||
| Much Dewchurch Clas | monks of St David founded 6th century; parochial? before 1066 | ||||
| Ocle Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: cell dependent on Lyre; founded c.1100 by the ancestors of Robert Chandos; granted to the Carthusians at Sheen, Surrey c.1414; granted to Sir Philip Hobby 1541/42; site now occupied by Livers Ocle farmhouse | Acley Priory; Livers Ocle Priory | 52.1148°N -2.6189°W | ||
| Shobdon Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine dependent on Bristol; founded between 1131 and 1135 (during the reign of Henry I and tenure of Robert de Bethune, Bishop of Hereford) by Oliver de Merlimound, steward for (and on behalf of) Hugh Mortimer; transferred to [Eye, nr.] Aymestrey c.1150; transferred from Beodune (?Byton) after 1155; transferred to north of Wigmore | 52.2605°N -2.879°W | |||
| Sutton Camera | Knights Hospitaller under Dinmore | ||||
| Titley Priory # | Tironensian monks apparent alien house: cell dependent on Tiron; founded 1120–21; dissolved 1391; granted to Winchester College c.1535; church rebuilt 1865; house named "Priory Cottage" built on site 16th century | St Peter | 52.2357°N -2.9807°W | ||
| Welsh Bicknor Clas | dissolved before 1100 | ||||
| Wigmore Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine (community founded at Shobdon 1131-35); transferred from [Eye, nr.] Aymestry; transferred to Beodune (? Byton) | ||||
| Wigmore Abbey ^ | Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine — from Shobdon; (community founded at Shobdon between 1131 and 1135); transferred here 1172-79 by Hugh Mortimer, Baron Wigmore; dissolved 1538; granted to Sir Thomas Palmer 1548/49; remains now incorporated into farm and buildings | St James | [14] 52.3363°N -2.8666°W | ||
| Wormsley Priory | possibly originally a hermitage; Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine founded after 1200 (13th century) (late in the reign of John or early in the reign of Henry III) by Gilbert Talbot; dissolved 1539; granted to Edward Lord Clinton 1545/46 | The Priory Church of Saint Mary and Saint Leonard, Wormsley ____________________ Priory of St Leonard de Pyon; Wormeley Abbey | 52.1316°N -2.8256°W | ||