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Abbeys and Religious Buildings in Lincolnshire

We are attempting to list all places where photographers can photograph Abbeys and Religious buildings within the UK, by county. This is the start of a list that will both grow over time and hopefully we will be able to add more columns or information. This same information is also available in alphabetical order.

Where the names in the first column is hyperlinked this links to a Location page with more information on this site and over time more of these will be added, we will be delighted if some of you would like to also produce location pages.

Codes Used on this page

Wiki=Wikipedia  EH=English Heritage  NT=National Trust  PEH=Pastscape  F.=Founded  Dis.=Dissolved

Condition: [A] First rate example; [B] Major Remains; [C] Identifiable Remains; [D] Modest Remains;
[E] Little Surviving

Foundation

Alt. Name * [Formal Name / dedication]

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Communities & history [condition]

Alkborough Priory

 

SE8721

PEH

Beneictine monks 1052-1220 [D]

Alvingham Priory

 

 

 

Gilbertine Canons

Aslackby Preceptory

 

 

Wiki

Knights Templar

Axholme Priory

 

SE7803

PEH

Carthusian monks [E]

Bardney Abbey

[The Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul * (prev The Priory of Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Oswald)]

 

Wiki

Benedictine monks' priory 1087 * abbey 1115/6-1538 * on site of Saxon monastery (immediately above) * now in ownership of Bardney Parochial Council, with public access

Bardney monastery

 

TF1169

PEH

ante697-870 * destroyed in raids * Benedictine priory built on site (see immediately below) [E]

Barlings Abbey [Reused]

 

TF0774

Wiki * PEH

Premonstratensian Canons from Newhouse 1154 * remains now incorporated into a college [E]

Barrow monastery

 

 

 

destroyed in raids

Belvoir Priory

 

 

 

 

Blackfriars, Boston

 

 

 

Dominican Friars

Bonby Priory

 

 

 

Benedictine monks

Boston Friary

 

TF3244

 

Augustinian Canons Regular [E]

Boston Friary

 

 

 

Carmelite Friars

Boston Friary

 

 

 

Franciscan Friars

Bottesford Preceptory

 

 

Wiki

Knights Templar

Bourne Abbey [Church Use]

[The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Bourne]

TF0920

Wiki * PEH

Arrouaisian Canons * Augustinian Canons Regular 1138 * the church, as since modified, in parochial use. [D]

Brackenholme Priory

 

 

 

Augustinian Canons Regular

Bridge End Priory

Holland Bridge Priory *[The Priory Church of Saint Saviour at Bridgend in Horbling]

 

 

Gilbertine Canons

Bullington Priory

 

TF4541

 

Gilbertine Canons [E]

Burwell Priory

 

 

 

Benedictine monks

Cammeringham Priory

 

 

 

Premonstratensian Canons

Catley Priory

 

 

 

Gilbertine Canons

Covenham Priory

Coverham St Mary's Priory * [The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Coverham]

 

 

Benedictine monks

Crabhouse in Winghale Priory

Wenghale Priory

 

 

Benedictine monks

Crowland Abbey

 

TF2310

PEH

Benedictin Monks. F. 714 Dissolved 1539.

Croyland Abbey [Church Use], Crowland

[The Priory Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Saint Bartholomew and Saint Guthlac, Crowland]

 

Wiki

716/757 * Benedictine monks 971-1539 * built on site of Saxon monastery destroyed in raids * part of church now in parochial use

Deeping St. James Priory [Church Use]

Deeping Priory

TF1609

 

Benedictine monks, now in parochial use [C]

Eagle Preceptory

Egle Preceptory

 

 

 

Elsham Priory

 

 

 

Augustinian Canons Regular

Fosse Priory

 

 

 

 

Freiston Priory [Church Use]

 

TF3743

 

Benedictine monks 1114 * part of church now in parochial use [D]

Gainsborough Preceptory

 

 

 

Knights Templar

Gokewell Priory

 

 

 

Cistercian nuns c.1148/1185-1536, site now occupied by the derelict buildings of Gokewell Priory Farm

Great Limber Preceptory, Limber Magna

 

 

 

Knights Templar

Great Limber Priory, Limber Magna

 

 

 

alien priory, later Carthusian/Cistercian?

Greenfield Priory

 

 

 

Cistercian nuns

Greyfriars, Lincoln

 

 

 

Franciscan Friars

Greyfriars, Stamford

 

 

 

Franciscan Friars

Grimsby Abbey

 

 

 

Augustinian Canons Regular

Grimsby Friary

Grey Friars

 

 

Franciscan Friars

Grimsby Friary

White Friars

 

 

Augustinian Canons Regular

Grimsby nunnery

 

 

 

Augustinian Canons Regular

Hagnaby Abbey

 

 

PEH

Premonstratensian Canons

Haugham Priory

 

 

 

Benedictine monks

Haverholme Priory

 

 

Wiki * PEH

Cistercian monks (from Fountains 1137) * trns to Louth Park Abbey 1139 * Gilbertine nuns

Heynings Priory

 

SK8184

PEH

Cistercian Nunnery f.1335 dis. 1539. May be remains of domestic quarters in Knaith Hall. [C]

Horkstow Preceptory

 

 

 

Knights Templar

Hough Priory [No remains]

 

 

 

Augustinian Canons Regular * site located to the south of All Saints Church

Humberston Abbey

Humberstone Priory

 

 

Benedictine monks * site now occupied by St. Peter's Church

Hyrst Priory

 

 

 

Augustinian Canons Regular

Ikanho monastery

[Probably The Anchorage on the Alde Estuary at Iken, Suffolk]

 

Wiki

destroyed in raids but apparently rebuilt.

Immingham Friary

 

 

 

Augustinian Canons Regular

Immingham Friary

 

 

 

Carmelite Friars

Immingham Friary

 

 

 

Dominican Friars

Immingham Friary

 

 

 

Franciscan Friars

Kirkstead Abbey

 

TF1762

Wiki * PEH

Cistercian monks (from Fountains) 1139/87-1537 * part in parochial use [D]

Knaith Priory

Heynings Priory

 

 

Nuns early 12thC

Kyme Priory

South Kyme Priory

 

 

Augustinian Canons Regular c.1150 * incorporated into St Mary and All Saints parish church

Legbourne Priory

 

 

 

Cistercian nuns

Long Bennington Priory [No remains]

 

 

 

Cistercian monks * a house called 'Priory House' near the church is purported to be located near the site of the priory

Louth Park Abbey

[The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Louth Park]

TF3287

PEH

Cistercian monks (trns from Haverholme 1139-1536 [E]

Maltby Preceptory

 

 

 

Knights Hospitaller

Markby Priory

 

 

 

Augustinian Canons Regular

Melwood Priory

 

 

 

Carthusian monks

Minting Priory

 

 

 

Benedictine monks

Newbo Abbey, * Sedgefield

 

 

PEH

Premonstratensian Canons from Newhouse 1198

Newsham Abbey

Newhouse Abbey

 

PEH

Premonstratensian Canons 1143

Newstead Priory

Newstead by Stamford Priory

TQ0005

 

Gilbertine Canons [E]

Newstead-on-Ancholme Priory

 

 

 

Gilbertine Canons

Nocton Priory

Nocton Park Priory

 

 

Augustinian Canons Regular

North Hykeham Priory

 

 

 

 

North Ormsby Priory

Nun Ormsby Priory

 

 

Gilbertine Canons

North Scarle Preceptory

 

 

 

 

Nuncotham Priory

Nuncoton Priory

 

 

Cistercian nuns

Orford Priory

Irford Priory

 

 

Premonstratensian Canonesses

Ormsby Priory

 

 

 

Gilbertine Canons

Partney monastery

 

 

 

destroyed in raids

Priory of St Sepulchure Stamford

 

TF0207

PEH

Augustinian Canons f. 1170. Fragments remain in walls and garden of George Hotel. [E]

Redbourne Priory

 

 

 

Gilbertine Canons 1164

Revesby Abbey

 

 

Wiki * PEH

Savignac monks from Rievaulx 1143 * Cistercian monks 1147-1538 * now in private ownership without public access

Rewley Abbey

 

 

 

Cistercian from Thame 1281-1536

Sandtoft Priory

 

 

 

Benedictine monks

Sempringham Priory

 

 

 

Gilbertine Canons 1131 * in parochial use

Sempringham Priory [No remains]

 

TF0928

 

Gilbertine double priory for canons and nuns * mansion later built on site no longer exists

Sixhills Priory

Sixle Priory

 

 

Gilbertine Canons

Skendleby Priory

 

 

 

Benedictine monks

South Kyme Priory

 

TF1452

PEH

Austin Canons F.11.69 Dis. 1539 Some remains in current Church on site. [D]

Spalding Priory

 

TF2422

Wiki

Benedictine monks [D]

St Catherine's Priory, Lincoln

 

 

 

Gilbertine Canons

St Leonards Priory, Stamford

 

 

 

Benedictine monks

St Mary Magdalen Priory, Lincoln

 

SK9771

PEH

Benedictine monks * remains now within a public park

Stainfield Priory

 

 

 

Benedictine nuns

Stixwould Priory

 

 

 

Cistercian nuns

Stow Abbey

[The Abbey Church of Saint Mary]

SK8781

 

Benedictine monks, trns from Eynsham 1091, tr to Eynsham c.1094/5 (1109?) [D]

Swineshead Abbey

 

 

PEH

Cistercian monks

Temple Bruer Preceptory

 

TF0053

Wiki

Knights Templar later Knights Hospitaller [C]

Thornholme Priory

 

 

 

Augustinian Canons Regular

Thornton Abbey

 

TA1119

Wiki * EH * Geograph

Augustinian Canons Regular priory 1139 * abbey 1148-1539 * secular priests' college * boys school: demolished * stately home: collapsed. [C]

Thwaite Priory

 

 

 

Augustinian Canons Regular

Torksey Nunnery

 

 

 

Cistercian monks

Torksey Priory

 

 

 

 

Tunstall Priory

 

 

 

Gilbertine Canons

Tupholme Abbey

 

TF1580

Wiki * PEH * Geograph

Premonstratensian Canons [E]

Vaudey Abbey

 

 

Wiki

Cistercian monks

Wellow Abbey

 

 

 

Cistercian monks

West Ravendale Priory

 

TF2891

 

Premonstratensian Canons, alien priory subject to Beauport Abbey, Brittany) 1202-1389 * granted to Southwell Church [E]

Willoughton Preceptory

Willowton Preceptory

 

 

Knights Templar

Willoughton Priory

Willowton Priory

 

 

Benedictine monks

Wilsford Priory

 

 

 

Benedictine monks, alien priory * later Augustinian Canons Regular

 

Location Guides Not linked

Lincoln Cathedral, Lincolnshire

 


See Also:

Abbey and Religious Buildings Section for all articles, lists and location guides on Abbey's, Cathedrals, Churches, Holy Wells etc.

 


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