List of collegiate churches in England

This is a list of Collegiate churches in England

In Christianity, a collegiate church is one in which the daily office of worship is maintained by a college of canons, often with a body of non-monastic or "secular clergy", organised as a self-governing corporate body.

A collegiate church may be presided over by a dean or a provost.

Present-day non-academic collegiate churches in England

Image	Name & Dedication	Diocese	Established/Website
	St Endellion Church, Cornwall Collegiate Church of Saint Endelienta	Diocese of Truro	before 1288 (re-established 1929)
	Founded with four prebends in the 13th century, and (due to legislative oversight) never subsequently dissolved, so prebends continued as sinecures until 1880. Current statutes provided in 1929 when the Bishop of Truro re-established the chapter		[1]
	Westminster Abbey Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster	Royal Peculiar	1065
	Benedictine monastery, consecrated in 1065 during the reign of King Edward the Confessor Cathedral 1540-1550 Monastery reestablished under the Catholic Mary I until 1559 Collegiate church established by Elizabeth I in 1579		[2]
	St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle The Queen’s Free Chapel of St George within her Castle at Windsor The Chapel of the College of St George, Windsor Castle The Chapel of the Most Honourable and Noble Order of the Garter	Royal Peculiar	1348
	Founded by Edward III on 6 August 1348		[3]

Academic collegiate churches

• Christ's College, Cambridge, 1448, university, continuing
• Eton College, St Mary, Eton, Buckinghamshire, 1440, chantry and school, continuing

Former collegiate churches in England

• Arundel, Sussex, 1375, Chantry priests
• Ashford, Kent, 1461, Chantry priests
• Attleborough, Norfolk,1405, Chantry priests
• Auckland St Andrew, Durham, 1292, Deans and Canons
• Babbelak, Coventry, Warwicks, 1344, Chantry priests
• Battlefield, Salop, 1406, Chantry priests
• Beverley, Yorks, Pre-Conquest, Canons
• Bosham, Sussex, 1120, Canons
• Bridgnorth, Salop, 1101, Deans and canons
• Bromyard, Hereford. Pre-Conquest. Portioners
• Bunbury, Cheshire. 1386. Chantry Priests
• Cambridge, King's College, Cambridge, 1441, academic
• Chester-le-Street, Durham, 1286, Canons
• Chester St John's, Cheshire, Pre-Conquest, Deans and canons
• Cotterstock, Northants, 1339, Chantry priests
• Crediton, Devon, pre-Conquest, Canons
• Darlington, Durham, c. 1165, Portioners
• Derby, All Saints, pre-Conquest, Deans and canons
• Fotheringhay, Northants, 1410, Chantry priests
• Glasney College, Penryn, Cornwall, c. 1270, Provost and canons
• Greystoke, Cumberland, 1358, Chantry priests
• Hemingborough, Yorks, 1426, Chantry priests
• Heytesbury, Wiltshire, c. 1155, Dean and canons
• Howden, Yorks, 1267, Canons
• Irthlingborough, Northants, 1388. Chantry priests
• Lanchester, Durham, 1284, Chantry priests
• Leicester, St Mary-in-the-Newarke, 1356, Deans and canons
• Lingfield, Surrey, 1431, Chantry priests
• London, St Martin-le-Grand, 1056, Deans and canons
• Lowthorpe, Yorks, 1333, Chantry priests
• Maidstone, Kent, All Saints, 1395. Chantry priests
• Manchester, St Mary, 1421, Chantry priests; college refounded 1557, cathedral since 1847
• Mettingham, Suffolk, 1394, Chantry priests
• Middleham, Yorks, 1478, Chantry priests
• Newport, Salop, 1442, Chantry priests
• Norton-on-Tees, Durham, 1083, Canons
• Norwich, St Mary-in-the-Fields, 1280, Deans and canons
• Ottery St Mary, Devon, 1337, Canons
• Oxford, All Souls College, 1438, Chantry priests
• Oxford, New College, 1379. Academic
• Ripon, Yorks, pre-Conquest, Canons; college refounded 1604, cathedral since 1836
• Rushford, Norfolk, 1342, Chantry priests
• St Buryan, Cornwall, 1238, Deans and canons
• Shrewsbury, Salop, St Chad, pre-Conquest, Deans and canons
• St Mary, pre-Conquest, Deans and canons
• Sibthorpe, Notts, 1335, Chantry priests
• Shottesbrooke, Berks, 1337, Chantry priests, dissolved 1547
• South Malling, Sussex, 1150, Deans and canons
• Southwell, Notts, pre-Conquest, Canons; college refounded 1557, cathedral since 1884
• Spilsby, Lincs, 1347, Canons
• Stafford, St Mary, pre-Conquest, Canons
• Stoke-by-Clare, Suffolk, 1415, Chantry priests
• Stratford-on-Avon, Warwicks, 1415, Chantry priests
• Tamworth, Staffs, St Editha, pre-Conquest, Canons
• Tattershall, Lincs, 1439, Chantry priests
• Thornton, Lincs, 1540, Deans and canons
• Tiverton, Devon, c. 1290, Portioners
• Tong, Salop, 1410, Chantry priests
• Warwick, St Mary, 1123, Deans and canons
• Westbury-on-Trym, Gloc, 1190, Deans and canons
• Westminster, St Stephen's, 1348, Deans and canons
• Wimborne, Dorset, pre-Conquest, Deans and canons
• Winchester College of St Mary, Winchester, Hampshire, 1382. Academic
• Windsor, St Edward, 1248, Chantry priests, replaced by St George in 1348
• Wingham, Kent, 1287, Canons
• Wolverhampton, Staffs, pre-Conquest, Deans and canons
• Wye, Kent, 1432, Chantry priests

See also

• Collegiate church
• List of cathedrals in the United Kingdom

References

• G. H. Cook, English Collegiate Churches of the Middle Ages (Phoenix House, 1959)
• P. N. Jeffery, The Collegiate Churches of England and Wales (Robert Hale, 2004)