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The finest abbeys & prioriesnational icons and local highlights

Iconic

Lindisfarne Priory

Cradle of English Christianity, red-stone ruin.

Northumberland

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Rievaulx Abbey

Soaring Cistercian ruin in a wooded valley.

North Yorkshire

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Whitby Abbey

Gaunt clifftop ruin above the harbour town.

North Yorkshire

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Glastonbury Abbey

Soaring ruins tied to the Arthur legend.

Somerset

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Battle Abbey

Ruined abbey on the 1066 battlefield.

East Sussex

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Fountains Abbey

The greatest monastic ruin in Britain, in a Yorkshire water garden.

North Yorkshire

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Furness Abbey

Vast red-sandstone monastic ruin in a wooded vale.

Cumbria

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Odda's Chapel

One of England's most complete Saxon chapels, built in 1056 and rediscovered inside a farmhouse at Deerhurst.

Gloucestershire

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Mount Grace Priory

Best-preserved Carthusian monastery in England.

North Yorkshire

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Reculver Towers and Roman Fort

Reculver Saxon Shore fort, Anglo-Saxon monastery and associated remains

Kent

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St Patrick's Chapel & Rock-cut Graves

Ruined Anglo-Saxon chapel and body-shaped graves cut into the headland rock above Morecambe Bay at Heysham.

Lancashire

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Byland Abbey

Ruined abbey with a great rose window.

North Yorkshire

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Muchelney Abbey

Benedictine ruins amid the Somerset Levels.

Somerset

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Buckland Abbey

Cistercian abbey turned Drake's Elizabethan home.

Devon

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St Benet's Abbey

An 18th-century drainage mill built straight through a Benedictine gatehouse.

Norfolk

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Bury St Edmunds Abbey

Great ruined abbey beside the cathedral gardens.

Suffolk

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Kirkstall Abbey

Complete Cistercian ruin beside the Aire.

West Yorkshire

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St Catherine's Chapel, Abbotsbury

Stout 14th-century chapel with a stone-vaulted roof, raised by Abbotsbury's monks for pilgrims on a lone hilltop looking over Chesil Beach.

Dorset

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Bayham Abbey

Premonstratensian Abbey at Bayham

East Sussex

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Netley Abbey

Romantic ivy-clad Cistercian abbey ruins.

Hampshire

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Roche Abbey

Cistercian ruin in a Capability Brown valley.

South Yorkshire

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Waverley Abbey

England's first Cistercian abbey, riverside ruins.

Surrey

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Wenlock Priory

Romantic monastic ruins with topiary gardens.

Shropshire

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Abbeys & priories in Bedfordshire 4

Abbeys & priories in Berkshire 4

Abbeys & priories in Buckinghamshire 5

Abbeys & priories in Cambridgeshire 12

Duxford Chapelruin
Denny Abbeyruin
Isleham prioryruin
Ramsey Abbeyruin
Booths Hill, Ramsey Abbeyruin
Chesterton Abbeyruin
Earthworks at the Abbeyruin
Sawtry Abbeyruin
Swavesey Prioryruin
Preceptory of Knights Hospitallers?below ground
St Neots Priory?below ground
Waterbeach Abbey?below ground

Abbeys & priories in Cheshire 5

Abbeys & priories in Cornwall 15

Dupath Wellstanding
St Thomas Becket Chapelruin
Chapel and holy wellstanding
Holy well at Laneaststanding
Holy Well at Rezarestanding
Holy well in Michaelstow churchyardstanding
Holy well near St James' Chapelstanding
Madron Wellstanding
Madron Well Chapelstanding
St Clether's Chapelstanding
St Constantine's chapelstanding
St Julian's Well (Cornwall)standing
St Ruan's Wellstanding
Trezance Holy Wellstanding
St Nicholas' Priory (Cornwall)ruin

Abbeys & priories in County Durham 3

Abbeys & priories in Cumbria 7

Abbeys & priories in Derbyshire 3

Abbeys & priories in Devon 18

Abbeys & priories in Dorset 11

Abbeys & priories in East Riding of Yorkshire 9

Haltemprice Augustinian prioryruin
Nunnery Hillruin
Ellerton Priory (East Riding)below ground
Holy Trinity Preceptory, Beverley?below ground
Meaux Cistercian Abbey?below ground
Nunburnholme Priory?below ground
Swine Cistercian nunnery?below ground
Warter Augustinian Priory?below ground
Watton Gilbertine priory?below ground

Abbeys & priories in East Sussex 5

Abbeys & priories in Essex 14

Abbeys & priories in Gloucestershire 8

Abbeys & priories in Hampshire 9

Abbeys & priories in Herefordshire 7

Abbeys & priories in Hertfordshire 5

Abbeys & priories in Kent 22

Faversham Stone Chapelruin
Knights Templar Church, Doverruin
Milton Chantryruin
Horne's Place Chapelruin
St John's Commandery, Swingfieldruin
St Augustine's Abbeyruin
St John's Jerusalemruin
Bilsington Prioryruin
Boxley Abbeyruin
Horton Prioryruin
Leeds Prioryruin
Minster Abbey grange, Thanetruin
Monastery at West Langdonruin
Monastic grange at Friary Courtruin
Preceptory at Dukes Placeruin
Rochester Prioryruin
Romney Prioryruin
St Martin's Prioryruin
St Mary's Abbey (Kent)ruin
St Mary's Priory (Kent)ruin
St Radegund's Abbeyruin
The site of St Saviour's Abbey?below ground

Abbeys & priories in Lancashire 8

Abbeys & priories in Leicestershire 9

Abbeys & priories in Lincolnshire 42

Thornton Abbeyruin
Revesby Abbeyruin
West Ravendale Prioryruin
Abbey Hills moated siteruin
Austin Friars Prioryruin
Axholme Carthusian Prioryruin
Bardney Abbeyruin
Barlings Prioryruin
Bullington Prioryruin
Catley Prioryruin
Flixborough Saxon nunneryruin
Hagnaby Abbeyruin
Haverholme Prioryruin
Humberston Abbeyruin
Kirkstead Abbeyruin
Knights Templar preceptoryruin
Louth Park Abbeyruin
Markby Prioryruin
Minting Prioryruin
Monasteryruin
Monk's Abbeyruin
Nocton Park Prioryruin
Preceptory at Eagle Hallruin
Preceptory church, Temple Bruerruin
St Michael's Priory (Lincolnshire)ruin
Swineshead Abbeyruin
Thornholme Augustinian prioryruin
Tupholme Abbeyruin
Anglo-Saxon nunnery?below ground
Gilbertine priory?below ground
Greyfriars Priory?below ground
Heynings Priory?below ground
Legbourne Priory?below ground
Nun Cotham Priory?below ground
Nunnery and settlement, Orford?below ground
Nunnery, Broadholme?below ground
Ruins and site of St Leonard's Priory?below ground
Sempringham Priory?below ground
St Mary's Priory (Lincolnshire)?below ground
Stainfield Priory?below ground
Stixwould Priory?below ground
Temple Garth preceptory?below ground

Abbeys & priories in London 6

Abbeys & priories in Norfolk 30

North Elmham Chapelruin
Creake Abbeyruin
Priory of the Holy Sepulchre, Thetfordruin
St Olave's Prioryruin
Thetford Cluniac prioryruin
Beeston Regis Prioryruin
Blackborough Prioryruin
Bromholm Prioryruin
Buckenham Prioryruin
Carrow Prioryruin
Coxford Prioryruin
Dominican Friary (Norfolk)ruin
Flitcham Prioryruin
Greyfriars Franciscan friaryruin
Hickling Prioryruin
Langley Abbeyruin
Marham Abbeyruin
Pentney Prioryruin
Shouldham Prioryruin
St Faith Prioryruin
St Leonard's Priory (Norfolk)ruin
St Mary's Carmelite Friaryruin
St Stephen's Prioryruin
Wendling Abbeyruin
West Acre Prioryruin
Weybourne prioryruin
Ruins and site of Walsingham Priory?below ground
St Helen's Church?below ground
St Mary's Abbey (Norfolk)?below ground
St Mary's Priory (Norfolk)?below ground

Abbeys & priories in North Yorkshire 22

St Mary's Church, Studley Royalruin
Penhill Knights Templar preceptoryruin
Kirkham Prioryruin
Easby Abbeyruin
Gisborough Prioryruin
St Hilda's holy wellstanding
Baysdale Crossruin
Baysdale Abbeyruin
Coverham Abbeyruin
Drax Augustinian prioryruin
Ellerton Prioryruin
Franciscan friaryruin
Jervaulx Cistercian Abbeyruin
Laskill monastic grangeruin
Marrick Prioryruin
Moxby Priory including millruin
St Martin's Benedictine Prioryruin
St Mary's Abbey (North Yorkshire)ruin
St Mary's Abbey precinct walls, Yorkruin
Yedingham Prioryruin
York City Wallsruin
Marton Augustinian priory?below ground

Abbeys & priories in Northamptonshire 6

Abbeys & priories in Northumberland 8

Abbeys & priories in Nottinghamshire 6

Abbeys & priories in Oxfordshire 9

Abbeys & priories in Shropshire 8

Buildwas Abbeyruin
Haughmond Abbeyruin
Lilleshall Abbeyruin
White Ladies (St Leonard's) Prioryruin
St Julian's Well (Shropshire)standing
Augustinian friaryruin
St Leonard's Priory (Shropshire)ruin
Woodhouse moated friary of Hopton Wafersruin

Abbeys & priories in Somerset 14

Stoke-Sub-Hamdon Priory
Cleeve Abbeyruin
Holy well at St Pancras Chapelstanding
Charterhouse lead worksruin
Augustinian priory (Somerset)ruin
Barlinch Prioryruin
Buckland Prioryruin
Charterhouse Campruin
Hinton Prioryruin
The Abbey Barn at Abbey Farmruin
Witham Prioryruin
Woodspring Prioryruin
Correrie or lower house to Hinton Priory?below ground
Montacute Priory?below ground

Abbeys & priories in Staffordshire 7

Abbeys & priories in Suffolk 20

St James's Chapel, Lindseyruin
Leiston Abbeyruin
Leiston Old Abbeyruin
South Elmham Minsterruin
Lady's Wellstanding
Babwell Friaryruin
Blythburgh Prioryruin
College and Franciscan nunneryruin
Dominican friary (Suffolk)ruin
Eye Prioryruin
Hoxne Prioryruin
Ipswich town defences and friary wallruin
Kersey Prioryruin
Letheringham Prioryruin
Mendham Prioryruin
Redlingfield Nunneryruin
Sibton Abbeyruin
Campsey Priory?below ground
Dodnash Priory?below ground
Walton Priory?below ground

Abbeys & priories in EnglandEngland

The finest abbeys & prioriesnational icons and local highlights

Lindisfarne Priory

Rievaulx Abbey

Whitby Abbey

Glastonbury Abbey

Battle Abbey

Fountains Abbey

Furness Abbey

Odda's Chapel

Mount Grace Priory

Reculver Towers and Roman Fort

St Patrick's Chapel & Rock-cut Graves

Byland Abbey

Muchelney Abbey

Buckland Abbey

St Benet's Abbey

Bury St Edmunds Abbey

Kirkstall Abbey

St Catherine's Chapel, Abbotsbury

Bayham Abbey

Netley Abbey

Roche Abbey

Waverley Abbey

Wenlock Priory

More abbeys and priories to explore402

Abbeys & priories in Bedfordshire 4

Abbeys & priories in Berkshire 4

Abbeys & priories in Buckinghamshire 5

Abbeys & priories in Cambridgeshire 12

Abbeys & priories in Cheshire 5

Abbeys & priories in Cornwall 15

Abbeys & priories in County Durham 3

Abbeys & priories in Cumbria 7

Abbeys & priories in Derbyshire 3

Abbeys & priories in Devon 18

Abbeys & priories in Dorset 11

Abbeys & priories in East Riding of Yorkshire 9

Abbeys & priories in East Sussex 5

Abbeys & priories in Essex 14

Abbeys & priories in Gloucestershire 8

Abbeys & priories in Hampshire 9

Abbeys & priories in Herefordshire 7

Abbeys & priories in Hertfordshire 5

Abbeys & priories in Kent 22

Abbeys & priories in Lancashire 8

Abbeys & priories in Leicestershire 9

Abbeys & priories in Lincolnshire 42

Abbeys & priories in London 6

Abbeys & priories in Norfolk 30

Abbeys & priories in North Yorkshire 22

Abbeys & priories in Northamptonshire 6

Abbeys & priories in Northumberland 8

Abbeys & priories in Nottinghamshire 6

Abbeys & priories in Oxfordshire 9

Abbeys & priories in Shropshire 8

Abbeys & priories in Somerset 14

Abbeys & priories in Staffordshire 7

Abbeys & priories in Suffolk 20

Abbeys & priories in Warwickshire 12

Abbeys & priories in West Midlands 6

Abbeys & priories in West Sussex 4

Abbeys & priories in West Yorkshire 5

Abbeys & priories in Wiltshire 3

Abbeys & priories in Worcestershire 4

Abbeys & priories elsewhere in England 7