User:JohnArmagh/List of monastic houses in Greater Manchester

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The following is a list of monastic houses in Greater Manchester, England.

Alien houses are included, as are smaller establishments such as cells and notable monastic granges (particularly those with resident monks), and also camerae of the military orders of monks (Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller). Monastic hospitals are included where they had the status or function of an abbey, priory, or preceptor/commandery.

Abbreviations and key
Status of remains
Symbol Status
None Ruins
* Current monastic function
+ Current non-monastic ecclesiastic function (including remains incorporated into later structure)
^ Current non-ecclesiastic function (including remains incorporated into later structure) or redundant intact structure
$ Remains limited to earthworks etc.
# No identifiable trace of the monastic foundation remains
~ Exact site of monastic foundation unknown
≈ Identification ambiguous or confused

Locations with names in italics indicate possible duplication (misidentification with another location) or non-existent foundations (either erroneous reference or proposed foundation never implemented) or ecclesiastical establishments with a monastic name but lacking actual monastic connection.

Trusteeship
EH English Heritage
LT Landmark Trust
NT National Trust


Foundation Image Communities & Provenance Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names Online References & Location
Kersal Priory hermitage
Cluniac monks - alien cell, dep Lenton
fd 1145-53 (gnt post1143 by Ranulph 'de Gernon', Earl of Chester);
denizen 1392;
dis 1538 		St Leonard [1]

53°30′36″N 2°17′19″W / 53.5101221°N 2.2885573°W / 53.5101221; -2.2885573 (Kersal Priory)
Warburton Priory # Premonstratensian Canons - cell, dtr of Cockersand
fd c.1200
church of St Mary and St Werburgh gnt to Cockersand Abbey by Adam of Dutton;
abnd ante1271 		Warburton Cell [2]

53°24′08″N 2°27′26″W / 53.4021174°N 2.457279°W / 53.4021174; -2.457279 (Warburton Priory)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Pastscape - Detailed Result: KERSAL CELL
  2. ^ Pastscape - Detailed Result: WARBURTON PRIORY
  • Knowles, David & Hadcock, R. Neville (1971) Medieval Religious Houses England & Wales. Longman
  • Cobbett, William (1868) List of Abbeys, Priories, Nunneries, Hospitals, And Other Religious Foundations in England and Wales and in Ireland, Confiscated, Seized On, or Alienated by the Protestant "Reformation" Sovereigns and Parliaments
  • Thorold, Henry (1986) Collins Guide to Cathedrals, Abbeys and Priories of England and Wales, Collins
  • Thorold, Henry (1993) Collins Guide to the Ruined Abbeys of England, Wales and Scotland, Collins
  • Wright, Geoffrey (2004) Discovering Abbeys and Priories, Shire Publications Ltd.
  • Morris, Richard (1979) Cathedrals and Abbeys of England and Wales, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
  • English Cathedrals and Abbeys, Illustrated, Odhams Press Ltd.
  • Map of Monastic Britain, South Sheet, Ordnance Survey, 2nd edition, 1954
  • Binns, Alison (1989) Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 1: Dedications of Monastic Houses in England and Wales 1066-1216, Boydell

Greater Manchester Category:Buildings and structures in Greater Manchester

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