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 ^[1] 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

The sites listed are ruins unless indicated thus: * indicates current monastic function + indicates current non-monastic ecclesiastic function (including remains incorporated into later structure) ^ indicates current non-ecclesiastic function (including remains incorporated into later structure) or redundant intact structure $ indicates remains limited to earthworks etc. # indicates no identifiable trace of the monastic foundation remains ~ indicates exact site of monastic foundation unknown ≈ identification ambiguous or confused 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.

Trusteeship denoted as follows: EH English Heritage LT Landmark Trust NT National Trust

Alphabetical listing of establishments

Foundation	Image	Communities & Provenance	Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names	OnLine References & Location
Almners Priory		17th century 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
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?
Guildford Friars de Ordine Martyrum		Friars de Ordine Martyrum founded 1260; possible Polish congregation of Crutched Friars; dissolution unknown
Guildford Crutched Friars (?)		alleged house of Crutched Friars possibly identical with Polish Crutched Friars house (see immediately above)	St Cross?
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
Laleham Abbey *		Benedictine monks founded 13th century; The Community of St Peter the Apostle (Westminster)
Leatherhead Priory (?)		Cistercian monks alleged monastery, founded 1263; incorporated into house called 'The Priory'; evidence lacking
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
Oxenford Priory (?)		Benedictine nuns foundation unknown; manor belonged to Waverley (from before 1147), "no trace of separate foundation", 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
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
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
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
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

The following establishments have no monastic connection:

• Nutfield Priory — hotel in Nutfield, Surrey

Glossary

Orders: Augustinian Augustinian Canons Regular / Austin Canons / Order of Saint Augustine (O.S.A.) - Arrouasian / (Arroasian) - Victorine - Holy Sepulchre Austin Friars (Augustinian Friars) Augustinian Recollects Benedictine / Order of St Benedict (O.S.B.) Bonshommes Bridgettine / Briggittine Carmelites Carmelites (White Friars) Carthusians Cistercian Cluniac Crutched Friars / (Crouched Friars / Crossed Friars / Fratres Cruciferi / Brethren of the Holy Cross) Culdee Dominican (Black Friars) / Ordinis Praedicatorum (Order of Preachers) (O.P.) / Friars Preachers Franciscan (Grey Friars) Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (The Order of Friars Minor (O.F.M.) / Ordo Fratrum Minorum) Capuchin (Order of Friars Minor Capuchin) Franciscan Observants Franciscan, Third Order Regular Franciscan Recollects Minoresses (Poor Clares) Friars of the Order of Blessed Mary (Friars of St Mary / Fratres Beatae Mariae) Friars of Penitence of Jesus Christ (Friars of the Sack) Gilbertine Grandmontine Military Orders Knights Hospitaller / Hospitallers / Order of Hospitallers / Knights of Saint John / Order of Saint John Order of the Holy Sepulchre Knights Templar / Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon / Order of the Temple / Templars Order of Saint Lazarus

St. Lazarus Hospitallers Premonstratensian Savignac Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Sisters of St John of Jerusalem Tironensian Trappist Trinitarian (Maturines) Valliscaulian General terms: Abbots / Abbesses / Abbey Alien House Anchorites Camera (pl. Cameræ) Canons Canons Regular cell Commandery Double monastery Friars / Friary Friars Eremites / anchorites Hermits Mendicants Monks Nuns / Nunnery Preceptor / Preceptory Priors / Prioresses / Priory Secular canons

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

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See also

• List of monastic houses in England

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