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°52′59″N 0°56′28″W / 53.88302°N 0.94115°W / 53.88302; -0.94115Coordinates: 53°52′59″N 0°56′28″W / 53.88302°N 0.94115°W / 53.88302; -0.94115
Grid reference SE 69702 43562

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 ('Jefferson House') 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 house itself,[3] its lodge,[5] and coach house with stables and brewery,[6]

The building (Jefferson House)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] it was converted to a large private house about this time; the nuns moved into a new purpose built convent in 2009

References

  1. ↑ Historic England. "Thicket Priory (58095)". PastScape. 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. 1 2 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
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