Thicket Priory

Thicket Priory

Monastery information
Full name Thicket Priory
Established 1955
Dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Diocese Middlesbrough
Site
Location Thorganby, North Yorkshire
Coordinates 53°53′01″N 0°56′28″W / 53.883576°N 0.941104°W

Thicket Priory is a religious house in the civil parish of Thorganby, North Yorkshire, England, located about 7 miles (11.3 km) south east of York. It lies in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough.

Description

A Benedictine priory for nuns stood on the site of Thicket Priory from the 1180s and was dissolved in 1539, its building being demolished in 1850.[1] There is also evidence of a devotion to ‘Our Lady of Thicket’ dating from this time.

New monastic buildings were erected in the grounds of the former establishment, and these re-founded as a Carmelite monastery in 2009.[2][3]

The building that was used by the community until 2009 was erected as a country house between 1844 and 1847, and was sold by Lt Col Sir John Dunnington-Jefferson in 1955 to the Carmelite Sisters of Exmouth.[4] This group of buildings holds three Grade II listed buildings: the former Priory itself,[3] its lodge,[5] and coach house with stables and brewery,[6]

The building is currently (April 2013) up for sale, with an asking price of £3,000,000. As of January 2014, the estate had been reduced to £2,500,000. [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Thicket Priory", National Monuments Record, English Heritage. Retrieved 18 November 2011
  2. ↑ Harris, Richard; "York area nuns build new home at Thorganby", The York Press, 2 January 2009. Retrieved 18 November 2011
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Historic England. "Thicket Priory (1296552)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
  4. ↑ "Living in harmony", the Yorkshire Post, 21 August 2008. Retrieved 18 November 2011
  5. ↑ Historic England. "Lodge to Thicket Priory (1148430)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
  6. ↑ Historic England. "Coach house, stables and brewery (1148431)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
  7. ↑ http://search.savills.com/property-detail/gbyorsyos120193

External links

Coordinates: 53°52′59″N 0°56′28″W / 53.88302°N 0.94115°W