The following is a list of the monastic houses in Northamptonshire, England.
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| Brackley Blackfriars | hospital of Ss James and John; Dominican Friars (1420) intended conversion of hospital never implemented | |||||||
| Brixworth Abbey + | Saxon monastery Benedictine? monks founded after 675; daughter church of Medehamstede (Peterborough), Mercia (Cambridgeshire); probably became a minster; destroyed? 870 in raids by the Danes; parochial c.960-70; now parochial: All Saints' Church, Brixworth | [1] 52.334°N -0.9043°W | ||||||
| Canons Ashby Priory + | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1147-51 (during the reign of Stephen) by Stephen de Leye; dissolved 1536; became nunnery; granted to Sir Francis Bryan 1537/8; converted into secular residence; part of church now in parochial use | The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ashby ____________________ Canon's Ashby Priory Ashby Priory | [2] [3] 52.15°N -1.1568°W | |||||
| Castor Priory | Saxon nuns founded before 664–5; destroyed by the Danes c.870 (or, less likely, 1010) | Dormundescastre Priory | ||||||
| Catesby Priory | evidently initially Benedictine nuns founded c.1175 by Robert de Esseby (Ashby); order by papal bull c.1189; Cistercian nuns founded c.1175; Augustinian Canons Regular founded after 1175 (associated with the Cistercian nunnery); (given as Gilbertine in the Mappa Mundi); with regular priests or brethren (from date unknown to after 1316) dissolved 1536; granted to John Onley 1536/7; house built on site 16th century; demolished 1863 | St Mary and St Edmund or St Mary, St Edmund and St Thomas the Martyr (?) ____________________ Katebi Priory; Katesbey Priory | [4] [5] [6] 52.2304°N -1.24°W 52.2313°N -1.2474°W | |||||
| Chacombe Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded between 1216 and 1272 (during the reign of Henry II); dissolved 1536; granted to Michael Fox 1544/5; house named 'Chacombe Priory' built 17th century on the site | Chalcombe Priory | [7] [8] 52.0911°N -1.2894°W | |||||
| Daventry Priory | Cluniac monks (founded initially at Preston Capes c.1090); transferred here 1107–8; alien house: dependent on La Charite; allegedly seceded from Cluniac Order c.1231, although apparently reported directly to La Charite 1298, 1390 and 1405; became denizen: independent from 1405; dissolved 1525; granted to Christ Church, Oxford; Holy Cross church attached to the west range of the claustral buildings, demolished and replaced 19th century | St Augustine ____________________ Daventre Priory | [9] [10] [11] 52.2587°N -1.159°W | |||||
| Deene Priory | Benedictine monks priory cell, dependent on Westminster; founded before 1066; dissolved after 1086 | [12] 52.5176°N -0.6014°W | ||||||
| Delapré Abbey | Cluniac nuns founded c.1145, built by Simon de St Liz (Senlis) II, Earl of Northampton; dissolved 15 December 1538; granted to John Merabe 1542/3 | St Mary ____________________ Northampton, Delapre Abbey; de Pratis | [13] [14] [15] 52.2245°N -0.8894°W | |||||
| Dingley Preceptory | Knights Hospitallers founded before 1154; merged with Battisford 1461; dissolved 1540; granted to Edward Griffith 1544 | [16] [17] 52.4824°N -0.8658°W | ||||||
| Everdon Priory # | Benedictine monks alien house: grange dependent on Bernay founded before c.1100; considered by some a parcel of Creeting St. Mary; dependent on Eton College before 1367; dissolved before c.1399; granted to Eton College 1440; remains recorded 1720; not locatable by 1970 | [18] [19] 52.2116°N -1.1262°W | ||||||
| Fineshade Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded before 1208 by Richard Engayne (Engain), Lord of Blatherwike; dissolved 1536; granted to John, Lord Russell 1541/2; Sir Robert Kirkham converted west range into a country residence, which was demolished along with the remains of the priory 1749; house subsequently built on site; demolished 1956 | St Mary ____________________ Castle Hymel Priory | [20] [21] 52.5688°N -0.5651°W | |||||
| Fotheringhay Nunnery | Cluniac nuns founded c1141(?) transferred to Delapré c.1145; secular college founded on site 1411, with associated church c.1460; dissolved 1548; granted to James Crew | Fodringhey College | [22] [23] 52.5255°N -0.4397°W | |||||
| Grafton Regis Priory | Augustininan Canons Regular cell or hermitage; founded 1180–1205; amalgamated with the Abbey of St James's, Northampton before 1400 (end of 14th century) | St Mary and St Michael ____________________ Grafton Regis Hermitage | [24] [25] 52.1144°N -0.9026°W | |||||
| Guilsborough Preceptory | Knights Hospitaller camera/hospital founded before 1285; dissolved before 1338 | |||||||
| Kalendar Priory | Premonstratensian canons priory?/cell, dependent on Sulby; founded after 1155: land granted by William Buttevant; probably ceased to exist before 1291(?) | St John ____________________ Kayland Priory Kaylend Priory | [26] 52.3652°N -0.9881°W | |||||
| Luffield Priory, Syresham | Partly in Buckinghamshire. See entry under | |||||||
| Northampton Abbey | Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1145-50 by William Peverel II of Nottingham; dissolved August 1538; granted to Nicholas Giffard 1545/6; housing estate now occupies site | The Abbey Church of Saint James, known as Northampton Abbey in St James End, Northampton | [27] [28] [29] 52.2405°N -0.925°W | |||||
| Northampton Austin Friars | Augustinian Friars (under the Limit of Oxford) founded 1275-90 (or possibly not before 1323 by Sir John Longville, of Wolverton dissolved 1538; granted to Robert Dighton 1540/1 | [31] [32] 52.2345°N -0.8981°W | ||||||
| Northampton Blackfriars ~ | Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Oxford) founded before 1233; dissolved 1538; granted to William Ramesden 1544/5 | [33] [34] 52.2367°N -0.9002°W (probable) | ||||||
| Northampton Friars of the Sack | Friars of the Sack founded before 1271; abandoned (before(?)) 1303 | [35] 52.2355°N -0.8897°W (probable) | ||||||
| Northampton Greyfriars, earlier site | Franciscan Friars (under the Custody of Oxford) founded 1226 by Sir Richard Gobion; transferred to new site (see immediately below) c.1235 | [36] [37] | ||||||
| Northampton Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars (under the Custody of Oxford) transferred from earlier site (see immediately above) c.1235; built by 1258; dissolved 1538; granted to Richard Taverner 1544/5 | 52.2393°N -0.895°W | ||||||
| Northampton — St Andrew's Priory | Cluniac monks alien house: dependent on La Charité founded 1093–1100; became denizen: independent from 1405; dissolved 1538; site built over 19th century | St Andrew | [38] [39] 52.2439°N -0.903°W | |||||
| Northampton Whitefriars | Camelite Friars founded before 1265 (1271) by Simon Montford and Thomas Chitwood; dissolved 1538; granted to William Ramesden 1544/6 | [40] [41] 52.2409°N -0.8947°W | ||||||
| Northampton Nunnery | Franciscan nuns founded 1252; dissolved after 1272 | |||||||
| Oxney Priory | Historical county location. See entry under | |||||||
| Peterborough Abbey | Historical county location. See entry under | |||||||
| Pipewell Abbey | Cistercian monks daughter house of Newminster; founded 13 September 1143 (1141) by William de Boutwylein; dissolved 5 November 1538; granted to William, Marquess of Northampton 1547/8; ruinous by 1548; systematically demolished and used as building material; (not the modern 'Abbey church' to the north) | Pikewell Abbey | [42] [43] 52.4617°N -0.7657°W | |||||
| Preston Capes Priory | Cluniac monks alien house: dependent on La Charité; founded c.1090 by Hugh de Leicester; transferred to Daventry 1107–8 | [44] 52.1813°N -1.1678°W | ||||||
| Rothwell Priory | Augustinian canonesses founded before 1262, probably by a member of the Clare family, purportedly by Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester; dissolved 1537–8; former farmhouse known as 'The Nunnery' possibly built on site | The Priory Church of Saint John the Baptist, Rothwell | [45] [46] 52.4246°N -0.8058°W | |||||
| Sewardsley Priory | Cistercian nuns founded between 1216 and 1272 (during the reign of Henry II) by Richard de Lestre; dependent on the Cluniacs at Delapré 1459/60 for maintenance (though no evidence that the community converted to the Cluniac order); dissolved 1538; granted to Richard Fermer 1550/1 | Sewardesley Priory | [47] [48] 52.1509°N -0.9535°W | |||||
| Stamford — St Michael's Priory | Historical county location. See entry under | |||||||
| Stamford — St Sepulchre Priory | Historical county location. See entry under | |||||||
| Sulby Abbey | Premonstratensian Canons daughter house of Newsham; mistakenly asserted to have transferred from Welford founded 1155 by William de Wideville; dissolved 1538; granted to Sir Christopher Hatton 1567/8 | Sulbey Abbey; Welford Abbey | [50] [51] 52.4147°N -1.0344°W | |||||
| Weedon Monastery | Benedictine? nuns founded c.680 by St Werburgh, possibly on the site of an Anglo-Saxon royal palace; destroyed in raids by the Danes 870 | [52] 52.2265°N -1.0732°W | ||||||
| Weedon Beck Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on Bec-Hellouin and St Lambert de Mallassis; founded before 1086 (after 1126); dissolved after 1329(?); granted to Eton College 1462 | Weedon Bec Priory | [53] [54] 52.2256°N -1.0791°W | |||||
| Weedon Pinkney Priory | Benedictine monks founded before 1126 (in the tenure of Robert, Bishop of Lincoln): endowments granted by Gilo de Pinkney and other members of his family; dependent on St Lucien, Beauvais; granted to Biddlesden 1392; manor granted to All Souls College, Oxford 1440 | Weedon Lois Priory | [55] [56] 52.1174°N -1.1216°W | |||||
| Wermundsey Monastery ~ | unidentified, dependent on Peterborough, possibly located in Northamptonshire founded after 675 during the tenure of Abbot Cuthbald; destroyed in raids by the Danes 870 | |||||||
| Wittering Priory | Historical county location. See entry under | |||||||
| Wothorpe Priory # | possibly intended Augustinian canonesses — Arroasian c.1160(?); Benedictine nuns founded 12th century (purportedly during the reign of Henry I); ruinous 1292; merged with Stamford 1354; granted to Richard Cecil 1540/1 | St Mary ____________________ Wyrthorp Priory | [57] [58] 52.6358°N -0.4868°W | |||||