List of monastic houses on the Isle of Wight

Barton Priory

Appuldurcombe House

St Mary's Priory, Carisbrooke

Carisbrooke Priory

Old Quarr Abbey

Quarr Abbey

St Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde

St Cross Priory

St Helen's Priory

Ventnor Priory (site)

Locations of monastic houses on the Isle of Wight

The following is a list of monastic houses on the Isle of Wight in England.

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 (Knights Templars and Knights Hospitaller). 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 preceptor/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.

Abbreviations and key

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.

Foundation	Image	Communities & Provenance	Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names	OnLine References & Location
Appuldurcombe House, Wroxall		Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on Montebourg; founded c.1100: manor granted by Richard de Redvers to Montebourg Abbey before 1090; dissolved 1414; 16th century Elizabethan house built on site; hotel 1859; leased for use as a college for young gentlemen 1867-1890s; Benedictine monks founded 1901-1908; virtually abandoned 1909; used to accommodate troops in the two World Wars; damaged by a mine 1943; currently a shell internally in ruins; (EH)	St Mary	[1] 50°37′01″N 1°14′01″W / 50.617029°N 1.233635°W / 50.617029; -1.233635 (Appuldurcombe House)
Barton Priory		Augustinian Canons Regular — from Cambridge priory(?) founded 1275 by John Insula, Rector of Shalfleet and Thomas de Winton, Rector of Godshill; dissolved 1439; granted to Winchester College	The Holy Trinity ____________________ Barton Oratory; Burton College	[2][3] 50°44′50″N 1°15′52″W / 50.7473181°N 1.264329°W / 50.7473181; -1.264329 (Barton Priory)
Carisbrooke — St Mary's Priory #		Cistercian monks alien house: priory cell dependent on Lire Abbey; founded c.1156 by Baldwin de Redvers: granted to Lire by William fitz Osbern, Marshall of William the Conqueror; granted to Mount Grace, Yorkshire, by Richard II; Benedictine monks restored by Henry IV; dissolved 1414; granted to the Carthusians at Sheen, Surrey by Henry V	The Priory Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Carisbrooke	[4] 50°41′31″N 1°18′50″W / 50.691904°N 1.313939°W / 50.691904; -1.313939 (St Mary's Priory, Carisbrooke)
Carisbrooke Priory *		Dominican nuns currently owned by the Carisbrooke Priory Trust, a registered charity;[5] extant	The Open Door	[6] 50°41′09″N 1°18′27″W / 50.685787°N 1.307526°W / 50.685787; -1.307526 (Carisbrooke Priory)
Newport Whitefriars?		Carmelite Friars[note 1]
Quarr Abbey		Savignac monks founded 27 April 1132 by Baldwin de Redvers (Redveriis); Cistercian monks orders merged 17 September 1147; dissolved 1536; granted to John and George Mills 1544/5	The Abbey Church of Our Lady of the Quarry ____________________ Quarrer Abbey	[7][8] 50°43′52″N 1°11′58″W / 50.730996°N 1.199356°W / 50.730996; -1.199356 (Old Quarr Abbey)
Quarr Abbey *, Binsted		Benedictine monks founded 24 May 1907 from Appuldurcombe House current house constructed from the ruined masonry of the former abbey; extant		[9] 50°43′53″N 1°12′17″W / 50.73144°N 1.204773°W / 50.73144; -1.204773 (Quarr Abbey)
Ryde — St Cecilia's Abbey * Appley House, Ryde		Solesmes nuns returned to France from exile Benedictine nuns daughter of Liege Abbey; founded at Ventnor 1882; transferred to Appley House 1922; priory attained abbey status 1926; aggregated into the Solesmes Community 1950; extant	Priory of the Peace of the Heart of Jesus Abbey of the Peace of the Heart of Jesus (1926)	[10] 50°43′42″N 1°08′47″W / 50.728428°N 1.14636°W / 50.728428; -1.14636 (St Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde)
St Cross Priory		Tironensian monks alien house: cell dependent Tiron; founded before 1132 (c.1120): church founded (in the tenure of Gervase, Abbot de Insula (Quarr)) by Robert Colaws; dissolved 1391; granted to Winchester College; site apparently occupied by a viaduct and railway		[11][12] 50°42′09″N 1°17′45″W / 50.7024887°N 1.2958771°W / 50.7024887; -1.2958771 (St Cross Priory)
St Helen's Priory		Cluniac monks alien house: dependent on Wenlock, Shropshire; founded c.1090 (before 1155); dissolved 1414		[13][14] 50°42′05″N 1°05′57″W / 50.701405°N 1.099298°W / 50.701405; -1.099298 (St Helen's Priory)
Ventnor Priory, Steephill View		Benedictine nuns daughter of Liege Abbey, Belgium, founded 1882; transferred to Appley House, Ryde 1922; Steephill View house now demolished; Priory Lodge, built 1970, now occupies the site	Pax Cordis Jesu	50°35′43″N 1°12′49″W / 50.5953°N 1.2137°W / 50.5953; -1.2137 (Ventnor Priory (site))

The following location on the Isle of Wight lacks monastic connection:

• Chale Abbey: a farm

Related articles

See also

• List of monastic houses in England

Notes

References

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• 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
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