Hornby Priory
Hornby Priory is located in the City of Lancaster district
Hornby Priory
Location within the City of Lancaster district
Monastery information
OrderPremonstratensian
Mother houseCroxton Abbey
Dedicated toWilfrid
People
Founder(s)De Montbegon family
Site
Coordinates54°06′47″N 2°38′12″W / 54.112956°N 2.636805°W / 54.112956; -2.636805 (Hornby Priory (approx. loc.))
Grid referenceSD584684

Hornby Priory was an English Premonstratensian monastic house in Hornby, Lancashire.[1] Dedicated to St Wilfrid, the priory was a dependent cell of Croxton Abbey in Leicestershire. It was probably founded by Roger de Montbegon of Hornby, otherwise his father Adam or grandfather Roger.[1]

It was suppressed on 23 February 1536, by Richard Leighton and Thomas Legh, following the Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535.[2]

In 1544 Thomas Stanley, 2nd Baron Monteagle and Henry Croft bought the site of Hornby Priory.[3]

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Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Farrer & Brownbill (1908), pp. 160–161
  2. ^ Clark (2021), Ch. VII
  3. ^ Haigh (1969), p. 131

Bibliography

  • Farrer, William; Brownbill, J., eds. (1908), "Houses of Premonstratensian Canons — Priory of Hornby", A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 2, Constable, OCLC 277574296
  • Haigh, Christopher (1969), The Last Days of the Lancashire Monasteries and the Pilgrimage of Grace, Manchester University Press, OCLC 107447
  • Clark, James G (2021), The Dissolution of the Monasteries, Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-26418-0, LCCN 2021940111


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