List of monastic houses in Northumberland

Bamburgh Friary

Alnwick Abbey

Bamburgh Priory

Blanchland Abbey

Brinkburn Priory

Carham Priory

Chibburn Preceptory

Coquet Island Priory

Corbridge Monastery

Farne Island Cell

Farne Island Priory

Guyzance Priory

Hexham Priory

Holystone Priory

Hulne Friary

Lambley Priory

Lindisfarne Priory

Merchingley Priory

Newminster Abbey

Ovingham Priory

Temple Thornton Camera

Warkworth Priory

Yeavering Monastery(?)

Locations of monastic houses in Northumberland

The following is a list of monastic houses in Northumberland, England.

In this article alien houses are included, as are smaller establishments such as cells and notable monastic granges (particularly those with resident monks), and also camerae of the military orders of monks (Templars and Hospitallers). The numerous monastic hospitals per se are not included here unless at some time the foundation had, or was purported to have the status or function of an abbey, priory, friary or preceptory/commandery.

The name of the county is given where there is reference to an establishment in another county. Where the county has changed since the foundation's dissolution the modern county is given in parentheses, and in instances where the referenced foundation ceased to exist before the unification of England, the kingdom is given, followed by the modern county in parentheses.

The geographical co-ordinates provided are sourced from the details provided by Historic England PastScape and Ordnance Survey publications.

A Monastic Glossary follows the listing, which provides links to articles on the particular monastic orders as well as other terms which appear in the listing.

Abbreviations and key

The sites listed are ruins unless indicated thus:
*	indicates current monastic function
⁺	indicates current non-monastic ecclesiastic function (including remains incorporated into later structure)
^	indicates current non-ecclesiastic function (including remains incorporated into later structure) or redundant intact structure
^$	indicates remains limited to earthworks etc.
^#	indicates no identifiable trace of the monastic foundation remains
^~	indicates exact site of monastic foundation unknown
^≈	identification ambiguous or confused

Locations with names in italics indicate probable duplication (misidentification with another location)
or non-existent foundations (either erroneous reference or proposed foundation never implemented)
or ecclesiastical establishments with a monastic appellation but lacking monastic connection.

Trusteeship denoted as follows:
EH	English Heritage
LT	Landmark Trust
NT	National Trust

Alphabetical listing of establishments

Foundation	Image	Communities & Provenance	Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names	OnLine References & Location
Alnwick Abbey		Premonstratensian Canons — from Newhouse daughter of Newsham; founded 1147 by Eustace FitzJohn; dissolved 1536-22 December 1539; granted to Ralph Sadler and Laurence Winnington 1550/1	The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Alnwick	^[1] 55°25′11″N 1°43′09″W / 55.41985°N 1.71914°W / 55.41985; -1.71914 (Alnwick Abbey)
Bamburgh Friary		Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of York) founded before 1265; dissolved 1539		^[2] 55°36′24″N 1°43′29″W / 55.6067729°N 1.7246068°W / 55.6067729; -1.7246068 (Bamburgh Friary)
Bamburgh Monastery		Saxon monastery founded 8th century; abandoned c.875: destroyed in raids by the Danes; site now occupied by St Aidan's parish church
Bamburgh Priory		Augustinian Canons Regular cell dependent on Nostell, Yorkshire; founded 1121: granted to Nostell by Henry I, confirmed 1121; effective c.1228; dissolved c.1537	St Aidan ____________________ Hamburgh Priory^{[note 1]}	^[3] 55°36′29″N 1°43′06″W / 55.6079903°N 1.7183626°W / 55.6079903; -1.7183626 (Bamburgh Priory)
Berwick Austin Friars		Augustinian Friars founded before 1299 possibly one of the houses in Berwick which survived suppression until after 10 March 1539/40
Berwick Blackfriars, earlier site		Dominican Friars founded before 1240/1 by Alexander II; mandate by the Pope to the Bishop of St Andrews 17 June 1285, for the sale of the former house of the Friars of the Sack to the Dominicans, (see immediately below)	St Peter Martyr, of Milan
Berwick Blackfriars		Friars of the Sack founded 1267; dissolved between 1274 and 1285; Dominican Friars (community founded at earlier site (see immediately above) before 1240/1); transferred here 1285; dissolved or secularised 1539(?)	St Peter Martyr, of Milan
Berwick Greyfriars		Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual founded 1231; dissolved or secularised between 10 March 1538/9 and Michaelmas 1539
Berwick Priory		Cistercian nuns founded before 1153; sometimes confused with Holystone; dissolved or secularised 1390/1	The Blessed Virgin Mary and St Leonard of South Berwick ____________________ Nunnery of South Berwick
Berwick Red Friars		Trinitarians founded before 1240-80, possibly at the hospital of St Edward or Bridge House; given as non-conventual 1447; given as ruinous 1456, revenues united with Peebles and declared uninhabitable by 2 March 1476, union confirmed by James III
Berwick Whitefriars		Carmelite Friars purportedly founded 1270 by Sir John Gray (details possibly confused with Berwick Greyfriars); dissolved between 10 March and Michaelmas 1539
Blanchland Abbey⁺		Premonstratensian Canons daughter of Croxden, Staffordshire; founded 1165 by Walter de Bolbec II; dissolved 18 December 1539; granted to John Bellow and John Broxholm 1545/6; part of church now in parochial use, other monastic buildings in current use in ownership of the Lord Crewe Trust	The Blessed Virgin Mary ____________________ Blanca Landa	^[4]^[5] 54°50′54″N 2°03′15″W / 54.8484245°N 2.0541698°W / 54.8484245; -2.0541698 (Blanchland Abbey)
Brinkburn Priory		Augustinian Canons Regular — from Pentney, Norfolk dependent on Pentney founded before/c.1135 (during the reign of Henry I) by William Bertram I, of Mitford (or Osebertus Colunarius); independent from before 1188(?); dissolved 1536; granted to John, Earl of Warwick 1550/1; (EH)	The Priory Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Brinkburn ____________________ Berkenburne Priory	^[6] 55°16′44″N 1°49′08″W / 55.2789175°N 1.8188998°W / 55.2789175; -1.8188998 (Brinkburn Priory)
Bywell Monastery		records suggest existence of a Saxon monastery	Biguell Monastery
Carham Priory		Augustinian Canons Regular cell dependent on Kirkham, Yorkshire; founded 1131 church of St Cuthbert and lands granted to Kirkham by Walter Espec; dissolved 1539		^[7] 55°38′20″N 2°19′27″W / 55.6389003°N 2.3241663°W / 55.6389003; -2.3241663 (Carham Priory)
Chibburn Preceptory		Knights Hospitaller founded before 1313; became a member of Mount St John 1358		^[8] 55°15′44″N 1°34′59″W / 55.2622685°N 1.5830344°W / 55.2622685; -1.5830344 (Chibburn Preceptory)
Coldingham Priory	Historical county location. See entry under List of monastic houses in Scotland
Coquet Island Priory		Benedictine monks founded before 684; abandoned c.800: destroyed in raids by the Danes; cell dependent on Tynemouth refounded before 1125: granted to Tynemouth by Robert Mowbray		^[9] 55°20′03″N 1°32′18″W / 55.334167°N 1.5384507°W / 55.334167; -1.5384507 (Coquet Island Priory)
Corbridge Monastery		Saxon monks — probably from Hexham; founded before 786^{[note 2]} possibly founded before 709 by St Wilfrid^{[note 3]}; abandoned before 877?: ?destroyed in raids by the Danes	St Andrew	^[10] 54°58′28″N 2°01′11″W / 54.9745472°N 2.0197463°W / 54.9745472; -2.0197463 (Corbridge Monastery)
Farne Island Cell		Anchorites hermitage cell before 651; abandoned c.800: destroyed in raids by the Danes; last anchorite died 1246, subsequently became Benedictine cell (see immediately below)		^[11] 55°37′01″N 1°39′20″W / 55.6169493°N 1.6554487°W / 55.6169493; -1.6554487 (Farne Island Cell)
Farne Island Priory		Benedictine monks cell dependent on Durham; founded c.1193 on location of extinct anchorite cell (see immediately above); rebuilt 14th century; dissolved c.1538 restored 1840-50	St Cuthbert	^[12] 55°36′59″N 1°39′20″W / 55.6163903°N 1.6554473°W / 55.6163903; -1.6554473 (Farne Island Priory)
Guyzance Priory		Premonstratensian Canonesses founded c.1147-52 by Richard Tison; granted to Alnwick, confirmed by William, Bishop of Durham; ceased 1349-50(?) when the community probably perished in the Black Death; Premonstratensian Canons — from Alnwick cell dependent on Alnwick; refounded after 1350; dissolved	The Prioy Church of Saint Wilfrid ____________________ Brainshaugh Priory	^[13] 55°19′18″N 1°40′24″W / 55.3218038°N 1.6733135°W / 55.3218038; -1.6733135 (Guyzance Priory)
Hexham Priory ⁺		Saxon monastery and cathedral founded 674 by St Wilfred and St Etheldreda, begun by St Wilfrid; diocese merged with Lindisfarne 821, cathedral status revoked; abandoned 875: destroyed in raids by the Danes; Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1113; dissolved 28 September 1536–26 February 1537; granted to Sir Reginald Carnaby 1538/9; now called 'Hexham Abbey'; church in parochial use	The Priory Church of Saint Andrew, Hexham Priory and Parish Church of Saint Andrew, Hexham ____________________ Hexham Abbey	^[14]^[15] 54°58′18″N 2°06′10″W / 54.9715406°N 2.1027446°W / 54.9715406; -2.1027446 (Hexham Priory)
Holystone Priory		Benedictine nuns founded before 1124 by Robert de Umfravillle I; Augustinian canonesses transferred 13th century; with regular priests or brethren after 1291 dissolved 1539	St Mary ____________________ Haylston Priory	^[16] 55°19′06″N 2°04′21″W / 55.318365°N 2.072457°W / 55.318365; -2.072457 (Holystone Priory)
Hulne Friary		Carmelite Friars founded 1242 (c.1240) by John de Vesci; dissolved 1539; granted to Thomas Reve and William Ryvet 1563/4; church demolished/ruined; part converted into a house and summerhouse 18th century; now called 'Hulne Priory'	Holm Friary; Hulne Whitefriars	^[17] 55°26′06″N 1°44′35″W / 55.4350886°N 1.7429316°W / 55.4350886; -1.7429316 (Hulne Friary)
Lambley Priory		Benedictine nuns founded before 1190 probably by Adam de Tindale and his wife Helwise (who granted land) (or by King John); referred to as an abbey in King John's charter (granted mistakenly); also suggested as Augustinian; burned by the Scots 1297; dissolved 1537; granted to John, Duke of Northumberland 1553	St Mary and St Patrick ____________________ Lambley upon the Tyne Priory	^[18] 54°55′40″N 2°30′35″W / 54.9277676°N 2.5095901°W / 54.9277676; -2.5095901 (Lambley Priory)
Lindisfarne Priory, Holy Island		Celtic monks monastic cathedral founded 635 (634) by St Aidan: granted to Aidan by King Oswald; Saxon (Benedictine?) monks refounded c.668; destroyed in raids by the Danes 793; abandoned 875: destroyed in raids by the Danes; Benedictine monks — from Durham cell dependent on Durham; founded 1083 (1082 or 1073); dissolved 1537; granted to the Dean and Chapter of Durham 1541/2; (EH)	St Cuthbert	^[19] 55°40′09″N 1°48′04″W / 55.6691869°N 1.8010068°W / 55.6691869; -1.8010068 (Lindisfarne Priory)
Merchingley Priory		Tironensian monks cell (possible grange), dependent on Kelso; founded c.1168: hermitage and chapel granted to Kelso by Walter de Bolbec; sequestered by Edward I 1296	St Mary ____________________ Marchingley Priory; Mercheley Priory	^[20] 54°56′05″N 2°01′02″W / 54.9346825°N 2.0172143°W / 54.9346825; -2.0172143 (Merchingley Priory)
Nesseham Priory	erroneous reference to Benedictine nunnery. See Neasham Priory in List of monastic houses in County Durham
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Austin Friars	Historical county location. See entry under List of monastic houses in Tyne and Wear
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Blackfriars	Historical county location. See entry under List of monastic houses in Tyne and Wear
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Friars of the Sack	Historical county location. See entry under List of monastic houses in Tyne and Wear
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Greyfriars	Historical county location. See entry under List of monastic houses in Tyne and Wear
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Monastery (?)	Historical county location. See entry under List of monastic houses in Tyne and Wear
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Priory	Historical county location. See entry under List of monastic houses in Tyne and Wear
Newcastle-upon-Tyne — St Bartholomew's Priory	Historical county location. See entry under List of monastic houses in Tyne and Wear
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Trinitarians	Historical county location. See entry under List of monastic houses in Tyne and Wear
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Whitefriars, earlier site	Historical county location. See entry under List of monastic houses in Tyne and Wear
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Whitefriars	Historical county location. See entry under List of monastic houses in Tyne and Wear
Newminster Abbey		Cistercian monks — from Fountains Abbey daughter of Fountains founded 5 January 1138 by Ranulph de Merlay; dissolved 20 August 1537; granted to Robert Brandling 1609/10; Abbey Farmhouse built on site, public access with permission	Novum Monasterium	^[21] 55°09′59″N 1°42′16″W / 55.1665135°N 1.7045385°W / 55.1665135; -1.7045385 (Newminster Abbey)
Old Melrose Monastery	Historical county location. See entry under List of monastic houses in Scotland
Ovingham Priory		Augustinian Canons Regular cell dependent on Hexham; founded 1378 by Mr Ufranvile: church of St Mary granted to Hexham; dissolved 1537		^[22] 54°58′03″N 1°52′07″W / 54.9674037°N 1.8687326°W / 54.9674037; -1.8687326 (Ovingham Priory)
Temple Thornton Camera		Knights Templar camera (sometimes considered a preceptory) founded before 1205 (during the tenure of Walter de Bolbeck), granted by William de Lisle; dissolved 1308-12; passed to Knights Hospitaller after 1308; dissolved after 1338		^[23] 55°09′33″N 1°50′40″W / 55.1592264°N 1.8445686°W / 55.1592264; -1.8445686 (Temple Thornton Camera)
Tynemouth Monastery	Historical county location. See entry under List of monastic houses in Tyne and Wear
Tynemouth Priory	Historical county location. See entry under List of monastic houses in Tyne and Wear
Warkworth Priory		Benedictine monks cell dependent on Durham; founded before 1241-9 (or between 1332 and 1353 by Henry, second Lord Percy of Alnwick, who was granted Warkworth Castle in 1332; or founded, possibly as a chantry, c.1400 by the first Earl of Northumbria); dissolved 15th century(?); ruinous and disused before 1567 (EH)	chapel of St Mary Magdalene ____________________ Warkworth Hermitage; Warkworth Castle Hermitage	^[24] 55°20′47″N 1°37′13″W / 55.3464707°N 1.6202205°W / 55.3464707; -1.6202205 (Warkworth Priory)
Warmington Cell (?)		Benedictine monks cell dependent on St Mary, York; cited, but no cell of this name has been identified in Northumberland
Yeavering Monastery (?)		extensive buildings revealed by crop markings suggest monastic settlement		55°34′02″N 2°07′07″W / 55.567118°N 2.118610°W / 55.567118; -2.118610 (Yeavering Monastery(?))

Glossary

Orders:
- Augustinian
  - Augustinian Canons Regular / Austin Canons / Order of Saint Augustine (O.S.A.)
    - - Arrouasian / (Arroasian)
    - - Victorine
    - - Holy Sepulchre
  - Austin Friars (Augustinian Friars)
  - Augustinian Recollects
- Benedictine / Order of St Benedict (O.S.B.)
- Bonshommes
- Bridgettine / Briggittine
- Carmelites Carmelites (White Friars)
- Carthusians
- Cistercian
- Cluniac
- Crutched Friars / (Crouched Friars / Crossed Friars / Fratres Cruciferi / Brethren of the Holy Cross)
- Culdee
- Dominican (Black Friars) / Ordinis Praedicatorum (Order of Preachers) (O.P.) / Friars Preachers
- Franciscan (Grey Friars)
  - Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (The Order of Friars Minor (O.F.M.) / Ordo Fratrum Minorum)
  - Capuchin (Order of Friars Minor Capuchin)
  - Franciscan Observants
  - Franciscan, Third Order Regular
  - Franciscan Recollects
  - Minoresses (Poor Clares)
- Friars of the Order of Blessed Mary (Friars of St Mary / Fratres Beatae Mariae)
- Friars of Penitence of Jesus Christ (Friars of the Sack)
- Gilbertine
- Grandmontine
- Military Orders

- St. Lazarus Hospitallers
- Premonstratensian
- Savignac
- Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary
- Sisters of St John of Jerusalem
- Tironensian
- Trappist
- Trinitarian (Maturines)
- Valliscaulian
General terms:
- Abbots / Abbesses / Abbey
- Alien House
- Anchorites
- Camera (pl. Cameræ)
- Canons
- Canons Regular
- cell
- Commandery
- Double monastery
- Friars / Friary
- Friars Eremites / anchorites
- Hermits
- Mendicants
- Monks
- Nuns / Nunnery
- Preceptor / Preceptory
- Priors / Prioresses / Priory
- Secular canons

Map link to lists of monastic houses in England by county

Northumberland Durham Lancashire Cheshire Derbs. Notts. Lincolnshire Leics. Staffs. Shropshire Warks. Northants. Norfolk Suffolk Essex Herts. Beds. Bucks. Oxon. Glos. Somerset Wiltshire Berkshire Kent Surrey Hampshire Dorset Devon Cornwall Heref. Worcs. Bristol East Riding of Yorkshire Rutland Cambs. Greater London Tyne & Wear Cumbria North Yorkshire South Yorks. West Yorkshire Greater Manc. Merseyside East Sussex West Sussex Isle of Wight West Midlands	Bedfordshire Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset County Durham Essex Gloucestershire Greater Manchester Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Merseyside Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Rutland Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex, East Sussex, West Tyne and Wear Warwickshire West Midlands Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire, East Riding Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West

Notes

↑ Bamburgh: 'Hamburgh' — sic. Cobbett
↑ Corbridge: Adulf (Ealdwulf) was consecrated Bishop of Mayo here in 786
↑ Corbridge: St Wilfred died 709

References

Binns, Alison (1989) Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 1: Dedications of Monastic Houses in England and Wales 1066-1216, Boydell
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
Morris, Richard (1979) Cathedrals and Abbeys of England and Wales, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
Thorold, Henry (1986) Collins Guide to Cathedrals, Abbeys and Priories of England and Wales, Collins
Thorold, Henry (1993) Collins Guide to the Ruined Abbeys of England, Wales and Scotland, Collins
Wright, Geoffrey N., (2004) Discovering Abbeys and Priories, Shire Publications Ltd.
English Cathedrals and Abbeys, Illustrated, Odhams Press Ltd.
Map of Monastic Britain, South Sheet, Ordnance Survey, 2nd edition, 1954

Monastic houses of England

Bedfordshire Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham Essex Gloucestershire Greater Manchester Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Merseyside Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Rutland Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey East Sussex West Sussex Tyne and Wear Warwickshire West Midlands Wiltshire Worcestershire East Riding of Yorkshire North Yorkshire South Yorkshire West Yorkshire

Complete list * Scotland

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