List of monastic houses in England
Foundation Communities & Provenance Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names
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 church 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sandwell Priory hermitage before 1180 ; Benedictine monks founded c. 1190 ( c. 1180 ) by William , son of Guy de Offney ; dissolved 1524 ( 7 June 1525 ) The Priory Church of Saint Mary Magdalene , Sandwell
Westwood Priory Fontefralt Benedictine nuns and brothers - double house alien house : cell dependent on Fontévrault ; founded after 1154 ( early in the reign of Henry II ) , land and other endowments granted by Osbert FitzHugh and his mother Eustacia de Say ; Benedictine nuns appears to have become a regular Benedictine community after c. 1374 ; became denizen : independent from before 1412 ( ? ) ; dissolved 1553 ; granted to John Pakinton 1538/9 The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary , Westwood
Carmelite Monastery , Wolverhampton * Carmelite nuns extant
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
Alphabetical listing -- West Midlands
Monastic houses in England include abbeys, priories and friaries, among other monastic religious houses. This article provides a gazetteer for the whole of England. Additionally, each county below provides links to the specific list for that county.