List of monastic houses on the Isle of Wight

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

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

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
Status of remains
Symbol Status
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.

Trusteeship
EH English Heritage
LT Landmark Trust
NT National Trust
Foundation Image Communities and provenance Formal name or dedication and alternative names References and 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
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
St Mary's Priory, Carisbrooke# 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

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
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
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
St Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde *
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
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
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
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

See also

Notes

  1. Newport Whitefriars: only reference Bale: K. Egan, The Establishment and early Development of the Carmelite Order in England (PhD thesis, Cambridge 19665) citing B.M., Ms Cotton Titus D. X. f.128; B.M., MS. Harley p.539, f.144

References

Bibliography
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  • Morris, Richard (1979) Cathedrals and Abbeys of England and Wales, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
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  • Thorold, Henry (1993) Collins Guide to the Ruined Abbeys of England, Wales and Scotland, Collins
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