List of monastic houses in Cornwall facts for kids
The following is a list of the monastic houses in Cornwall, England.
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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). Monastic hospitals are included where they had the status or function of an abbey, priory, friary or preceptor/commandery.
- Abbreviations and key
| Symbol | Status |
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| None | Ruins |
| * | Current monastic function |
| + | Current non-monastic ecclesiastic function (including remains incorporated into later structure) |
| ^ | Current non-ecclesiastic function (including remains incorporated into later structure) or redundant intact structure |
| $ | Remains limited to earthworks etc. |
| # | No identifiable trace of the monastic foundation remains |
| ~ | Exact site of monastic foundation unknown |
| ≈ | 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.
| EH | English Heritage |
| LT | Landmark Trust |
| NT | National Trust |
| Foundation | Image | Communities and provenance | Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names |
Online References & Location |
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| Altarnon Monastery | probable monastery before 1066 |
Altarnun Monastery | 50°36′17″N 4°30′45″W / 50.60482°N 4.5125914°W |
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| Bodmin — Abbey of St Mary & St Petroc* | Augustinian Canons Regular (Canons Regular of the Lateran) founded 1881; raised to abbey status 1953 |
50°28′10″N 4°44′01″W / 50.46931°N 4.73364°W |
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| Bodmin Blackfriars | probable mistaken reference to Bodmin Greyfriars | |||
| Bodmin Greyfriars # | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Bristol) founded before 1260; dissolved 1538 |
Bodmin Greyfriars | 50°28′47″N 4°43′11″W / 50.4797424°N 4.7196311°W |
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| Bodmin Priory + | 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 |
Bodmin Monastery; Bodmin Abbey |
50°28′14″N 4°42′56″W / 50.4706783°N 4.7156829°W |
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| Breage Grange | Cistercian monks grange dependent on Hailes, Gloucestershire; founded c.1300 |
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| Cardinham Grange # | purported medieval monastery | 50°28′17″N 4°39′05″W / 50.4714772°N 4.651401°W (possible) |
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| Constantyne Monastery | Celtic monks | |||
| Crantock Monastery | Celtic monks probably founded by a St Carrock; secular before 1066; recorded extant 1086; secular canons collegiate refounded 1236; dissolved 1549 |
St Corontocus ____________________ St Karentoc's Monastery |
50°24′11″N 5°06′43″W / 50.403148°N 5.1119927°W |
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| Dingerein Monastery | Celtic monks | Dinurrin Monastery | ||
| Gulval Monastery | Celtic monks founded by St Gudwall (Wolvela), from Wales |
Dinurrin Monastery | ||
| Kea Monastery, Old Kea | Celtic monks supposed site of monastery recorded extant 1086 |
St Cheus Monastery; Old Kea Monastery |
50°14′10″N 5°01′27″W / 50.2360144°N 5.0242536°W (supposed) |
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| Lammana Priory, Looe Island |  |
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 |
50°20′13″N 4°26′57″W / 50.336931°N 4.449143°W |
| Lansallos Monastery | Celtic monks patronised by St Ildierna |
St Salwys (St Alwys) | ||
| Lannachebran Cell, St Keverne | monks founded c.6th century 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 |
50°03′03″N 5°05′13″W / 50.0507186°N 5.0868201°W |
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| Launcells Priory | Celtic monks secular at Norman Conquest Augustinian Canons Regular |
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| Launceston Friary(?) | Friars | |||
| Launceston Priory, earlier site | monks or secular founded before c.830; secular canons to c.1126 |
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| Launceston Priory + | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1127; dissolved 1539; restored 1871; in parochial use as the Church of St Thomas the Apostle |
50°38′28″N 4°21′58″W / 50.6412046°N 4.3661374°W |
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| Lanwethinoc Monastery~, Padstow | Celtic monks founded by Bishop Wethinoc; site possibly occupied by the medieval Church of St Petroc at Padstow |
Lanuthinoc Monastery; St Petroc's Church; Petroc-stow Monastery; Padstow Monastery |
50°32′28″N 4°56′35″W / 50.5412334°N 4.9429464°W (possible) |
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| Madron Monastery | Celtic monks before 12th century |
50°07′54″N 5°33′53″W / 50.1315902°N 5.5646825°W (approx) |
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| Manaccan Monastery | Celtic monks | 50°04′57″N 5°07′35″W / 50.0824805°N 5.1264954°W (approx) |
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| Mawgan in Pydar Franciscan Monastery * | Franciscan monks | The Franciscan Monastery of St Joseph and St Anne, St Mawgan in Pydar | ||
| Minster Priory + | 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 |
The Priory Church of Saint Materiana, Minster St Mertherian ____________________ Talcarne Priory; Minster Cell |
50°40′59″N 4°40′33″W / 50.6831697°N 4.6757019°W |
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| Paul Grange | Cistercian monks grange(?) dependent on Hailes, Gloucestershire; founded c.1300(?) |
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| Probus Monastery | 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 |
50°17′45″N 4°56′39″W / 50.2957206°N 4.9442554°W |
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| Rialton Grange # | Augustinian Canons Regular chief manor or grange of Bodmin; manor house built 15th century |
Rieltone Grange | 50°25′13″N 5°01′55″W / 50.4203929°N 5.0319099°W (approx) |
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| St Anthony's Monastery, St Anthony-in-Meneage | Celtic monks 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 |
Lantenning Monastery | 50°04′58″N 5°06′32″W / 50.0827008°N 5.1089859°W (approx) |
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| St Anthony-in-Roseland Priory ^ | 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 |
St Anthony-in-Roseland Cell | 50°08′53″N 5°00′49″W / 50.1480864°N 5.0135422°W (approx) |
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| St Buryan's Monastery, St Buryan | 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 |
50°03′43″N 5°38′54″W / 50.0619878°N 5.6483459°W (approx) |
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| St Carrok's Monastery #, St Winnow | Celtic monks 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 |
50°22′58″N 4°39′10″W / 50.382911°N 4.652753°W (approx) |
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| St German's Priory + |  |
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 |
The Priory Church of Saint German, Saint Germans | 50°23′48″N 4°18′35″W / 50.396686°N 4.309699°W |
| St Goran's Monastery, St Goran | Celtic monks 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 |
50°14′35″N 4°48′04″W / 50.2430333°N 4.8010254°W (approx) |
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| St Kew Cell ~ | monks 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 |
St Daw (or St Docco) Saint Kew (from 1440) |
50°33′29″N 4°47′40″W / 50.558147°N 4.794374°W |
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| St Matthew's Monastery | uncertain order and foundation | |||
| St Mawgan Monastery + | Celtic monks lands passed to the Bishop before 1085; Cluniac monks; Carmelite convent possibly built on site 16th century |
Lanherne Monastery; St Mawgan in Pydar Monastery |
50°27′45″N 5°01′31″W / 50.4625583°N 5.0253868°W (approx) |
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| St Michael's Mount Priory + |  |
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) |
50°06′59″N 5°28′42″W / 50.116387°N 5.478329°W |
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| St Neot's Monastery, St Neot | Celtic monks founded 6th century?; dissolved after 1084 |
Saint Aniet | 50°28′28″N 4°33′58″W / 50.474442°N 4.566211°W |
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| St Piran's Monastery, Perranzabuloe | Celtic monks founded 6th century?; dissolved before c.1085 |
50°21′54″N 5°08′49″W / 50.3650105°N 5.1469231°W (approx) |
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| Saltash Monastery | uncertain order and foundation | |||
| Scilly Priory | 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 |
49°56′51″N 6°19′44″W / 49.9474643°N 6.328758°W |
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| Sclerder Abbey + |  |
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 |
50°20′53″N 4°30′18″W / 50.347987°N 4.505089°W |
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| Sele Priory | Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on St-Florent-de-Saumur; founded before 1126; dissolved 1396 |
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| Temple property + |  |
Knights Templar Knights Hospitaller |
50°31′49″N 4°37′07″W / 50.530166°N 4.618571°W (approx) |
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| Temple Templars Preceptory # | |
Knights Templar founded 12th century; dissolved 1308-12; asserted to have become a preceptory of Knights Hospitallers — (disputed) |
50°28′41″N 4°23′50″W / 50.4780253°N 4.3971598°W (approx) |
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| Tintagel Monastery | remains interpreted as Celtic monastic dependent on Bodmin; founded c.350; popular tradition as medieval Benedictine nunnery: evidence lacking; Norman castle built on site; current academic consensus regards earlier settlement as secular |
50°40′07″N 4°45′39″W / 50.6685911°N 4.7608405°W |
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| Trebeigh Preceptory # | |
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 |
Treleigh Preceptory; Turleigh Preceptory |
50°28′46″N 4°23′30″W / 50.4793361°N 4.3917525°W |
| Tregonan Cell, St Ewe | Celtic monks dependent on St Keverne's Monastery founded 6th century; dissolved 11th century |
50°03′19″N 5°05′21″W / 50.0551549°N 5.0890732°W (approx) |
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| Tregonan Grange | Cistercian monks grange of Beaulieu, Hampshire founded before 1263; dissolved before 1527; "considerable remains" existing 1755 have since disappeared |
St Keverne Grange | 50°03′08″N 5°05′25″W / 50.0521825°N 5.0901407°W |
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| Tregony Priory ~ | Augustinian Canons Regular alien house: priory cell dependent on Le Val, Bayeux; founded before 1125(?); granted to Merton, Surrey 1267 |
The Priory Church of St James, Tregony ____________________ Tregoney Priory |
50°15′59″N 4°55′03″W / 50.2663016°N 4.9174118°W (conjectured site) |
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| Truro — Convent of the Epiphany ^ | Community of the Epiphany, Anglican | 50°16′21″N 5°03′32″W / 50.272468°N 5.059001°W |
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| Truro Blackfriars | 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 |
50°15′48″N 5°03′18″W / 50.263296°N 5.0550118°W |
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| Tywardreath Priory | 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 |
50°21′24″N 4°41′38″W / 50.3565371°N 4.6939087°W |
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