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Formal name or dedication is the formal name of the establishment or the person in whose name the church is dedicated, where known. Some of the establishments have had alternative names over the course of time; such alternatives in name or spelling have been given.
This is a List of Cistercian monasteries (called abbeys) in Great Britain. The first Cistercian abbey in Great Britain was Waverley Abbey in Surrey , founded in 1128. In the next few years further abbeys were founded in other parts of Britain , notably Yorkshire and in Scotland and Wales .
This is a list of former monastic buildings in England that continue in use as parish churches or chapels of ease.. Bath Abbey. Nearly a thousand religious houses (abbeys, priories and friaries) were founded in England and Wales during the medieval period, accommodating monks, friars or nuns who had taken vows of obedience, poverty and chastity; each house was led by an abbot or abbess, or by ...
The following is a list of the monastic houses in Greater London, 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).
The list is by no means exhaustive, since over 800 religious houses existed before the Reformation, and virtually every town, of any size, had at least one abbey, priory, convent or friary in it. (Often many small houses of monks, nuns, canons or friars.)
Athelney Abbey Bablew Priory Banwell Monastery (alleged site) Banwell Monastery (poss. site) Banwell Monastery (poss. site) Barlinch Priory Barrow Gurney Nunnery Bath Abbey Brent purported Cell (very approx. loc.) Bridgwater Greyfriars Bruton Abbey Buckland Priory Burtle Priory Cannington Nunnery Clevedon Friary Cleeve Abbey Downside Abbey Dunster Priory Glastonbury Abbey Green Ore 'Cell ...
Locations of monastic houses in Oxford The following is a list of the monastic houses in Oxfordshire , 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 ).