Current non-monastic ecclesiastic function (including remains incorporated into later structure)
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Current non-ecclesiastic function (including remains incorporated into later structure) or redundant intact structure
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Remains limited to earthworks etc.
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No identifiable trace of the monastic foundation remains
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Exact site of monastic foundation unknown
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Identification ambiguous or confused
Locations with names in italics indicate possible duplication (misidentification with another location) or non-existent foundations (either erroneous reference or proposed foundation never implemented) or ecclesiastical establishments with a monastic name but lacking actual monastic connection.
Celtic monks abbey? purportedly founded 6th century by St Petroc; Benedictine? monks refounded 936; nuns? dissolved c.1113; monks or secular dissolved c.1124; Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1124; dissolved 27 February 1538; buildings destroyed apart from the parish church, in parochial use as Church of England parish church; church in use for secular and industrial purposes post-dissolution
Benedictine monks founded 6th century; Benedictine monks cell dependent on Glastonbury and chapel; founded before 1114; disposed of by Glastonbury between 1239 and 1329; chantry chapel of the Dawnay family before 1329; dissolved 1549
The Priory Church of St Michael, Lammana ____________________ Lammana Chapel
monks founded c.6th century[note 8] under the tutelage of St Achebran; secular collegiate refounded before 1086; Cistercian monks grange dependent on Beaulieu, Hampshire; founded before 1263; dissolved 1527; granted to Francis, Earl of Bedford 1559/60
St Keiran's Monastery; St Keverne's Monastery; Lanachebran Monastery
Celtic monks? founded before 1066; Benedictine monks alien house: daughter house of the Abbey of St. Sergius, Angers founded before 1190 by William de Bottreaux; dissolved before 1407; slight remains of priory near the medieval parochial church
Celtic monks or secular founded 924, purportedly by King Athelstan; dissolved 940; secular canons collegiate founded before 1086 (or during the reign of Henry I, who granted the church to Exeter Cathedral 1120); dissolved 1549
Celtic monks[note 11] Benedictine monks alien house: grange of St-Serge, Angers; founded from Brittany?; became parochial after 1066; became a grange of Tywardreath before mid-12th century (though referred to as a cell); founded after 1088; dissolved after 1381
Augustinian Canons Regular priory cell dependent on Plympton, Devon founded before 1288; dissolved 1538; remains incorporated into house named 'Place House' built on site 16th Century
Celtic monks secular collegiate founded c.930, purportedly by King Athelstan; dissolved 1545; parish church (SS Andrew, Thomas the Martyr, Nicholas and Beriana) on site rebuilt 13th century, though mostly now 15th century
Celtic monks[note 12] dissolved/destroyed before 1086?: seized by Robert, Count of Mortain; Cluniac monks alien house: cell dependent on Montacute, Somerset; founded 1100-40: granted to Montacute by William, son of Robert c.1100; became denizen: independent from 1407; dissolved 1537; granted to Laurence Courtney 1534/5
St Carroc Monastery; St Syriac's Monastery; St Cyricus and St Julitta's Monastery; St Cadix's Monastery; St Syriac's Cell
Celtic monks possibly founded 7th century; secular canons episcopal diocesan cathedral founded c.936; see transferred to new site at Crediton, Devon 1042; monks or secular founded 1042; Augustinian Canons Regular refounded 1184 (1161-87); dissolved 2 March 1539; granted to Catherine Champernoun, John Ridgeway and others 1541/2; now in use as parish church; remains of claustral buildings incorporated into Port Eliot House
Celtic monks[note 13] founded 6th century; patronised by St Goran in the time of St Petroc; dissolved after 1083; church and lands granted to the college of Glasney 1269
monks[note 14] founded 6th century (in the time of St Samson); purported Augustinian cell secular minster status confirmed by King Edgar, who granted land to the minster 961-3; secular collegiate clerks or secular canons until 1283; Augustinian Secular Canons — from Plympton, Devon until before 1283 church rebuilt 1496 and restored 1883
Saxon Benedictine? monks 8th century-11th century; Benedictine monks founded 1087-90; church consecrated 1135; alien house: dependent on Mont-St-Michel, Normandy granted by Edward the Confessor to Mont-St-Michel before 1050; seized during wars with the French 1362; dissolved c.1414; granted by Henry VI to King's College, Cambridge; granted by Edward IV to Syon Abbey; used alternately as fortress and monastery and private residence with public access; (NT)
Celtic monks, monastic cells founded before 1066; Benedictine monks cell dependent on Tavistock, Devon; founded before 1114; dissolved c.1538; Tresco Abbey Gardens created by Augustus Smith around the priory remains in 1834
The Priory Church of St Nicholas, Scilly ____________________ Tresco Cell
Dames de la Retraite founded c.1843; dissolved 1852; Franciscan Recollects founded 1858; dissolved 1864; Carmelite founded 1864; dissolved 1871; Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary founded 1904; dissolved 1910; Minoresses — from Rennes 1914-1920; Minoresses — from Bullingham 1922-1981; Franciscan c.1925; Carmelite — from Quidenham 1981-2014; Chemin Neuf 2014-; extant
remains interpreted as Celtic monastic dependent on Bodmin[note 18]; founded c.350; popular tradition as medieval Benedictine nunnery: evidence lacking; Norman castle built on site; current academic consensus regards earlier settlement as secular
Knights Templar (purportedly); Knights Hospitaller founded before 1199 "by the bounty of" Henry de Pomeral and Reginald Marsh; united with Ansty before 1432; dissolved after 1557/8; granted to Henry Wilby and George Blythe 1573/4
Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of London) founded before 1259 (during the reign of Henry III) by the Reskimer family; (church consecrated 1259-60); dissolved 1538; granted to Edward Anglianby 1553/4
Benedictine monks alien house: daughter house of St-Serge, Angers founded c.1088 by Richard fitz Turold, Lord of Cardinham Castle, chief baron of Cornwall (or 1169 "by some noblemen", or 1135); became denizen: independent c.1400; dissolved 1536; granted to Edward, Earl of Hertford 1542/3
St Andrew ____________________ Truwardraith Priory
^Altarnon Monastery: cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 54, Cornish Church Guide, 1925
^Bodmin 'Blackfriars' — given by John Leland, Itinerary; T. Tanner, Notitia Monastica p. 72, note n. gives this as a seemingly erroneous reference to Bodmin Greyfriars
^Constantyne Monastery: cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 78, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
^Dingerein Monastery: cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 100, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
^Gulval Monastery: cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 104, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
^Kea Monastery Monastery: cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 116, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
^Lansallos Monastery: cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 133, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
^Lannachebran Monastery: cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", pp. 117–8, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925 and W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum v, p. 682
^Launcells Monastery: cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 136, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
^Launceston Friary — T. Tanner, Notitia Monastica p. 72, cites mention of friary in addition to the abbey or priory by Mr Carew, Survey of Cornwall, f.81b/f.116b
^St Anthony-in-Meneage Monastery: cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 55, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
^St Carrok's Monastery: cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 213, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
^St Goran's Monastery: cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 102, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
^St Kew's Monastery: cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 119, Cornish Church Guide, 1928
^St Mawgan/Lanherne Monastery: cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 156, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
^St Neot's Monastery: cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", pp. 179–83, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
^Temple Preceptory: cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p.112
& 212, Cornish Church Guide, 1928
^Tintagel Monastery: cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", pp. 203–6, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
^Tregonan Monastery: cited by C. Henderson, "Parochial History of Cornwall", p. 118, The Cornish Church Guide, 1925
Binns, Alison (1989) Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 1: Dedications of Monastic Houses in England and Wales 1066–1216, Boydell[ISBN missing]
Cobbett, William (1868) List of Abbeys, Priories, Nunneries, Hospitals, And Other Religious Foundations in England and Wales and in Ireland, Confiscated, Seized On, or Alienated by the Protestant "Reformation" Sovereigns and Parliaments
Knowles, David & Hadcock, R. Neville (1971). Medieval Religious Houses England & Wales. Longman. ISBN0582112303.
Morris, Richard (1979) Cathedrals and Abbeys of England and Wales, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.[ISBN missing]
Thorold, Henry (1986) Collins Guide to Cathedrals, Abbeys and Priories of England and Wales, Collins[ISBN missing]
Thorold, Henry (1993) Collins Guide to the Ruined Abbeys of England, Wales and Scotland, Collins[ISBN missing]
English Cathedrals and Abbeys, Illustrated, Odhams Press Ltd.
Map of Monastic Britain, South Sheet, Ordnance Survey, 2nd edition, 1954
Further reading
Oliver, George (1846) Monasticon Dioecesis Exoniensis: being a collection of records and instruments illustrating the ancient conventual, collegiate, and eleemosynary foundations, in the Counties of Cornwall and Devon, with historical notices, and a supplement, comprising a list of the dedications of churches in the Diocese, an amended edition of the taxation of Pope Nicholas, and an abstract of the Chantry Rolls [with supplement and index]. Exeter: P. A. Hannaford, 1846, 1854, 1889
Olson, Lynette (1989) Early Monasteries in Cornwall (Studies in Celtic History series). Woodbridge: Boydell Press ISBN0-85115-478-6
Orme, Nicholas (2007) Cornwall and the Cross. Chichester: Phillimore; English Heritage
Orme, Nicholas (1996) English Church Dedications: with a Survey of Cornwall and Devon, University of Exeter Press ISBN0-85989-516-5
