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Foundation |
Alt. Name * [Formal
Name / dedication] |
Location Grid
Ref or Lat/long |
Website Links
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Communities & history
[condition] |
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Appleby Friary |
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British History Online |
Carmelite Friars |
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Armathwaite Nunnery |
Armethwaite Nunnery * [(church dedicated to Jesus Christ and the Blessed
Virgin Mary)] |
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British History Online |
Benedictine nuns
6 January 1089
(dubiously purported) |
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Calder Abbey |
Caldre Abbey |
54°26′39″N
3°27′55″W
/ 54.444053,
-3.465173 * NY0506 |
Wiki *
British History Online *
English Heritage Pastscape *
Visit Cumbria |
Savignac monks from Furness 1135-1137 * trns to Hood * Savignac monks (refounded)
from Furness c.1143-1147 * Cistercian monks 1147; dis. 1536 * now in
private ownership without public access [C] |
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Carlisle Cathedral Priory [Church Use] |
Carlilse Priory * [The
Priory
Church
of the Holy Trinity, Carlisle * The
Cathedral
Church of The Holy and Undivided Trinity, Carlisle 1133] |
54°53′41″N
2°56′19″W
/ 54.894713,
-2.938607 * NY3955 |
Wiki
*
British History Online *
Carlisle Cathedral |
secular canons -1092 * Augustinian Canons Regular 1122; dis. 1540 *
episcopal diocesan cathedral 1133-present [C] |
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Carlisle Dominican Friary |
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British History Online |
Dominican Friars |
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Carlisle Franciscan Friary |
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British History Online |
Franciscan Friars |
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Conishead Priory [Reused], * Ulverston |
[The Priory Church of the Virgin Mary, Conishead] |
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Wiki *
British History Online |
Augustinian Canons Regular 1188 * originally a hospital 1160 * site now
occupied by country house named 'Conishead Priory' and presently the
home of the Buddhist Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre |
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Furness Abbey |
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54°08′08″N
3°11′53″W
/ 54.135513,
-3.198145 * SD2271 |
Wiki *
British History Online *
Visit Cumbria *
Britain Express *
Catholic Encyclopedia *
Cistercians in Yorkshire *
Cumbria & the Lake District *
EH *
PEH |
Savignac monks -1147/8 * Cistercian monks (The second richest and most
powerful Cistercian Abbey in England after Fountains Abbey) -1124/7;
dis. 1537 [B] |
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Holme Eden Abbey |
[Priory of Saint Scholastica] |
54°54′18″N
2°49′31″W
/ 54.904928,
-2.825383 |
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Benedictine nuns rmv from
Fort
Augustus
1921; dis. 1983 * formerly Holme Eden Hall * altered for use as a
nursing home |
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Nunnery near Kirkoswald |
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54°46′44″N
2°43′17″W
/ 54.778828,
-2.721401 |
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Benedictine nuns * house named Nunnery House built on site |
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Penrith Friary |
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British History Online |
Augustinian Friars |
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Ravenstonedale Priory |
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54°25′59″N
2°25′46″W
/ 54.43312,
-2.429481 * NY7203 |
GenUKI *
The Cumbria Directory *
Lake District Tourist & Cumbria Tourism Information |
Gilbertine Canons [E] |
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St Bees Priory |
St Bee's Priory * [The Priory Church of Saint Bees, Saint Bees] |
54°29′38″N
3°35′37″W
/ 54.493913,
-3.593634 * NX9611 |
Wiki *
St Bees *
St Bees Priory *
Visit Cumbria |
Benedictine monks fd. c.1120; dis. 1539, on the site of an earlier
nunnery c.650/900? * church now in parochial use [D] |
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Wetheral Priory |
Wetherall Priory |
54°52′46″N
2°49′48″W
/ 54.879306,
-2.829993 * NY4654 |
British History Online *
EH |
Benedictine monks (from St. Mary's Abbey, York) fd. 1106; dis. 1542 [E] |
