The following is a list of the monastic houses in the West Midlands, England.
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| Balsall Preceptory | + | Knights Templar founded 1146 (c.1142) (during the reign of King Stephen) by Roger Mowbray; preceptory before 1226; dissolved 1308–12; Knights Hospitaller 1322; dissolved 1470, jointly with Grafton; granted to Sir Robert Dudley 1565/6; became part of the holdings of the prior of the order in England 1476; became ruinous; restored 1622; in use as chapel for the local almshouse 1677; church became parochial 1863; now under trusteeship of The Foundation of Lady Katherine Leveson, with public access by arrangement | church: The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin ____________________ Temple Balsall; Balsall and Grafton Preceptory; Balshall Preceptory | [1] 52.3815°N -1.6974°W | ||||
| Coventry Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Worcester) founded before 1234 by Ralph, Earl of Chester; dissolved 5 October 1538; granted to the Mayor and bailiffs of Coventry 1542/3 | [2] 52.4058°N -1.5115°W | ||||||
| Coventry — St Anne's Priory ^ | Carthusian monks — from London Charterhouse, Middlesex and Beauvale founded 1381 by William, Lord Zouch, of Harrington; dissolved 16 January 1539; granted to Richard Andrews and Leonard Chamberlain 1542/3 | The Priory Church of Saint Anne, Coventry | [3] 52.401°N -1.4948°W | |||||
| Coventry — St Mary's Priory | purported Saxon nunnery destroyed by in raids by the Danes 1016; Benedictine monks founded 1043(?) by Leofric, Earl of Mercia and his wife Lady Godiva: papal confirmation 1043; abbatial-episcopal diocesan cathedral priory founded 1102: see transferred from Chester; dissolved 15 January 1539: see transferred to Lichfield | The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Saint Peter and Saint Osburg, Coventry | [4] [5] 52.409°N -1.5087°W | |||||
| Coventry Whitefriars | Carmelite Friars friary proposed 1287, forbidden; founded 1342, built by Sir John Poultney, citizen of London and five times Lord Mayor; dissolved 1 October 1538; granted to Ralph Sadler 1544/5 | St Mary | [6] 52.4141°N -1.5017°W | |||||
| Dudley Priory | Cluniac monks alien house: dependent on Wenlock Priory, Shropshire; founded 1149-60 by Gervase Pagnell (Painell), carrying out the intentions of his father Ralph, lord of the manor; became denizen: independent from 1395; dissolved 1539; granted to Sir John Dudley 1540/1;site now located in public Priory Park | The Priory Church of Saint James, Dudley | ||||||
| Halesowen Abbey | Premonstratensian Canons — from Welbeck, Nottinghamshire founded 1218 by Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester, (charter 1215), manor granted by King John 1214, canons arrived 1218; dissolved 9 June 1538; remains of abbey church and cloister in use as barn on Manor Abbey Farm; (EH) | The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint John the Evangelist, Halesowen | 52.4435°N -2.0369°W | |||||
| Henwood Priory # | Benedictine nuns founded 1154-9 (during the reign of Henry II, under Walter Durdent, Bishop of Chester (Coventry)) by Ketelberne (Katelbern) de Langdon; dissolved 1536; granted to John Higford 1539/40 | The Priory Church of Saint Margaret, Henwood ____________________ Heanwood Priory | [7] 52.4057°N -1.7298°W | |||||
| Sandwell Priory | hermitage before 1180; Benedictine monks founded c.1190 dissolved 1524 (7 June 1525 | The Priory Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Sandwell | [11] 52.5202°N -1.9647°W | |||||
| Wolverhampton Carmelite Monastery * | Carmelite nuns extant | [12] 52.5697°N -2.1465°W | ||||||
| Wolverhampton Monastery (?) + | Saxon monks founded 659? traditionally by Wulfhere, King of Mercia; possibly refounded 994 by Lady Wulfran, land granted to Wulfgeat, kinsman of Lady Wulfran, by King Edgar, confirmed by Sigeric, Archbishop of Canterbury; secular collegiate founded c.994 possibly on the site of earlier monastery; dissolved 1538; restored 1852-65 by Ewen Christian | St Mary St Peter | 52.5869°N -2.128°W |