List of monastic houses in Surrey

Almners Priory

Chertsey Abbey

Guildford Friary (site)

Guildford Friars de Ordine Martyrum

Guildford Crutched Friars

Horsley Priory

Leatherhead Priory (alleged)

Newark Priory

Reigate Priory

Tandridge Priory

Wanborough Grange

Waverley Abbey

Woking Monastery

Locations of monastic houses in Surrey

The following is a list of monastic houses in Surrey, 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

Alphabetical listing of establishments

Foundation	Image	Communities & Provenance	Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names	OnLine References & Location
Almners Priory		17th century priory		[1] 51°23′25″N 0°31′53″W / 51.3902085°N 0.5314744°W / 51.3902085; -0.5314744 (Almners Priory)
Bermondsey Abbey	Historical county location. See List of monastic houses in London
Bermondsey Minster	Historical county location. See List of monastic houses in London
Chertsey Abbey		Saxon Benedictine? monks founded 666; destroyed in raids by the Danes c.872 secular Benedictine monks refounded before 964; dissolved 1537	The Abbey Church of Saint Peter, Chertsey	[2][3] 51°23′37″N 0°30′06″W / 51.3935216°N 0.5015463°W / 51.3935216; -0.5015463 (Chertsey Abbey)
Guildford Blackfriars		Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of London) founded 1275 by Queen Eleanor of Provence, widow of Henry III; proposal by Edward III to refound as a Dominican nunnery never transpired; dissolved 1538; site now occupied by 'The Friary' shopping centre	St Dominic?	[4][5] 51°14′12″N 0°34′35″W / 51.236559°N 0.576297°W / 51.236559; -0.576297 (Guildford Friary (site))
Guildford Friars de Ordine Martyrum		Friars de Ordine Martyrum founded 1260; possible Polish congregation of Crutched Friars; dissolution unknown		[6][7] 51°13′54″N 0°35′00″W / 51.2316194°N 0.5834609°W / 51.2316194; -0.5834609 (Guildford Friars de Ordine Martyrum)
Guildford Crutched Friars (?)		alleged house of Crutched Friars[note 1] possibly identical with Polish Crutched Friars house (see immediately above)[note 2]	St Cross?	[8] 51°13′54″N 0°35′00″W / 51.2316190°N 0.5834600°W / 51.2316190; -0.5834600 (Guildford Crutched Friars)
Horne Priory		Carthusian monks projected: king's licence granted to Mary de St Paul, Countess of Pembroke c.1345 to endow and build a house for Carthusians, appears not to have been completed	Hourne Priory
Horsley Priory		Benedictine nuns possibly founded before c.1199, estate granted to Troarn Abbey by Roger de Montgomery before 1086; supposedly at Rowbarnes, East Horseley; dissolution unknown		[9] 51°15′25″N 0°27′13″W / 51.2569532°N 0.4536742°W / 51.2569532; -0.4536742 (Horsley Priory)
Laleham Abbey *		Benedictine monks founded 13th century; The Community of St Peter the Apostle (Westminster)		[10]
Leatherhead Priory (?)		Cistercian monks alleged monastery, founded 1263; incorporated into house called 'The Priory'; evidence lacking		[11] 51°17′31″N 0°19′41″W / 51.2919203°N 0.3281763°W / 51.2919203; -0.3281763 (Leatherhead Priory (alleged))
Merton Priory	Historical county location. See entry under List of monastic houses in London
Newark Priory		possible hospital Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1189 (during or before the reign of Richard I) by Ruald de Calva and his wife Beatrice; dissolved 1539; granted to Sir Antony Brown 1544/5	The Priory Church of The Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Thomas a Becket, Newark ____________________ Adbury Priory; Aldebury Priory	[12][13][14] 51°18′32″N 0°30′25″W / 51.308937°N 0.506810°W / 51.308937; -0.506810 (Newark Priory)
Oxenford Priory (?)		Benedictine nuns foundation unknown; manor belonged to Waverley (from before 1147), "no trace of separate foundation"[note 3], dissolved after 1305(?)
Reigate Priory		hospital founded 1217-1235 by William de Warren, Earl of Surrey; Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1235; also given as Crutched Friars (possibly Flemish branch, or earlier Fratres Cruciferi 'Augustinian Hospitallers') dissolved 1535; granted to William Lord Howard 1541/2; conventual buildings largely demolished and replaced by a house 1541; rebuilt as a Palladian mansion 1771; since 1948 in use as a school located in public Priory Park, with a public museum		[15][16] 51°14′08″N 0°12′23″W / 51.2354268°N 0.2064523°W / 51.2354268; -0.2064523 (Reigate Priory)
Richmond Friary (Greyfriars and Austin Friars)	Historical county location. See List of monastic houses in London
Sheen Priory	Historical county location. See List of monastic houses in London
Sheen Friary	Historical county location. See List of monastic houses in London
Syon Priory	Historical county location. See List of monastic houses in London
Southwark Priory	Historical county location. See List of monastic houses in London
Tandridge Priory		hospital founded 1189 by Odo de Dammartin, possibly ceasing to exist 1218-22; Augustinian Canons Regular founded after(?) 1218 (c.1200); dissolved 1538 (1537); granted to John Rede 1537/8	The Priory Church of Saint James, Tandridge ____________________ Tanregge Priory	[17][18][19][20] 51°15′14″N 0°01′38″W / 51.2537687°N 0.0271627°W / 51.2537687; -0.0271627 (Tandridge Priory)
Tooting Bec Priory	Historical county location. See List of monastic houses in London
Wanborough Grange		Cistercian monks grange of Waverley, founded 1130; dissolved 1536; barn restored 1997, owned by Guildford Borough Council, maintained by the Guildford Museum		51°13′54″N 0°39′48″W / 51.23157°N 0.6632°W / 51.23157; -0.6632 (Wanborough Grange)
Waverley Abbey		Cistercian monks dependent on L'Aumône; founded 24 November 1128 (or 28 October 1129, possibly when functional for full regular life) by William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir William Fitz William 1536/7; (EH)	The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Waverley	[21][22][23] [24][25] 51°12′00″N 0°45′33″W / 51.199996°N 0.759269°W / 51.199996; -0.759269 (Waverley Abbey)
Woking Monastery		Saxon monastery purported dependency of Peterborough founded c.690 (in the time of Abbot Cuthbert) granted to Peterborough by Brordar, and ealdorman, with the consent of Offa; thought to have been destroyed in raids by the Danes 871	St Peter ____________________ Wockingas Monastery; Wocingas Minster; Old Woking Monastery; Woking Minster	[26] 51°18′44″N 0°34′00″W / 51.3123389°N 0.5666059°W / 51.3123389; -0.5666059 (Woking Monastery)

The following establishments have no monastic connection:

• Nutfield Priory — hotel in Nutfield, Surrey

Glossary

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

See also

• List of monastic houses in England

Notes

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