List of monastic houses in Hertfordshire
The following is a list of monastic houses in Hertfordshire, England.
| Foundation | Image | Communities & Provenance | Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names |
| Ashridge Priory | monastery or college of the Precious Blood; Bonshommes monks founded 1283 by Edmund, Earl of Cornwall; dissolved 16 November 1539 | the Precious Blood | |
| Barden Priory? | Augustinian Canons Regular possibly Berden, Essex or the hospital at Bigging | St Mary | |
| Cathale Priory | Benedictine nuns founded before 1189 probably by William de Mandeville; dissolved before 1240; granted to the nuns of Cheshunt by Henry de Bohun; canons removed; chapel survived to 1613 when land acquired by James I; chapel remains extant 1830s | ||
| Cheshunt Priory | Benedictine nuns founded before 1183; dissolved 1536; granted to Sir Anthony Deny 1536/7 | Cestrehunt Priory; Chesthunt Priory | |
| Flamstead Priory | Benedictine nuns founded c.1150 by Roger de Toney; dissolved 1537; granted to Sir Richard Page 1539/40; site now occupied by Beechwood Park School | Flamsted Priory | |
| Hertford Priory # | Benedictine monks founded before 1093 by Ralph de Limesy and granted to St Albans, Hertfordshire after 1077; dissolved 1538; granted to Sir Antony Denny and his wife 1537/8; conventual church demolished after 1540; passed to Sir Thomas Wiley who built the private chapel of St John, demolished 1680 on the orders of the Bishop of Lincoln; site now occupied by parish church | St Mary | |
| Hertford Trinitarian Priory | lepers' hospital of St Mary Magdelene taken over by Trinitarians; Trinitarian monks founded c.1261; apparently under Easton, Wiltshire until 1448 as a hospital; later under Moatenden; apparently abandoned before 1535 | St Mary Magdalene Holy Trinity and St Thomas Martyr c.1261 | |
| Hitchin Whitefriars | Carmelite Friars founded c.1317; dissolved 17 October 1538; granted to Edward Watson and H. Henderson 1546/7 site now occupied by , part of cloister arches still visible; 17th/18th century country house built on site | St Mary ____________________ Hitchin 'Priory | |
| Hitchin Priory | Gilbertine Canons founded 1361-2 by Edward de Kendale; dissolved 1538 | St Saviour | |
| Hitchin Minster | Saxon minster founded before 11th century ; parochial church before 1086 | ||
| Muresley Priory, nr Ivinghoe | Benedictine nuns founded between 1107 and 1129, reputedly by Walter Giffard, bishop of Winchester, ; community evicted; granted to Sir John Dance c.1537 | St Margaret ____________________ Meursley Priory; Mursley Nunnery; St Margaret's Priory; St Margaret's in the Wood, Meuresley; St Margaret's de Bosco; Ivinghoe Nunnery; Ivinghoe Priory; Ivanhoe Monastery | |
| King's Langley Priory | Dominican Friars founded before 1308; dissolved 1538; Dominican nuns — from Dartford refounded 1557; dissolved 1558: nuns transferred to Dartford | King's Langley Blackfriars | |
| Lannock | Knights Templar founded before 1148 ; Knights Hospitaller let privately 1338 | ||
| Markyate Priory # | hermitage before 1145; Benedictine nuns founded 1145 by Ralph de Langford, Dean and Chapter of St Paul's, through the influence of Geoffrey, Abbot of St Albans; apparently soon destroyed by fire; dissolved 1537; granted to George Ferrers; site now occupied by a manor house named 'Markyate Cell' built on priory remains; parochial church of St John the Baptist built at the south corner of the site | Holy Trinity ____________________ Mergate Priory; Market-Street Priory | |
| Mirdial Priory? | purported Augustinian Canons Regular ' | St Mary | |
| New Biggin Priory # | Gilbertine Priory priory cell founded 1361-2 by Sir Edward de Kendale; dissolved 1538; granted to John Cokke 1544/5; residence built on site 1585; converted to almshouses c.1812 | St Saviour ____________________ Hitchin Nunnery | |
| Redbourn Priory | Benedictine monks cell dependent on St Albans; founded 1178 by Abbot Simon or Abbot Warin built by John, Bishop of Ardfert; plundered by the French 1217; apparently abandoned before 1535; granted to John Cock 1539/40 | St Amphibalus ____________________ St Amphibalus Priory; Redburn Priory | |
| Rowney Priory ^ | Benedictine nuns founded c.1164 by Conan, Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond; plundered early 15th century; dissolved 11 September 1457; granted to the patron, John Fray, chief baron of the Exchequer, who established a chantry; confiscated by the Crown 1548; 19th century house built on site, said to incorporate fabric from the priory | St John the Baptist ____________________ Rowheing Priory; Rownay Priory | |
| Royston Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1173-9 by Ralph de Rochester built in the time of Walter Walensis, Abbot of Colchester; dissolved 9 April 1537; granted to Robert Slete, Esq. 1540/1 priory church converted for parochial use as the Parish Church of St John the Baptist; a Georgian House also built on the site | The Priory Church of St John the Baptist and St Thomas the Martyr | |
| St Albans Abbey + | Benedictine? monks founded c.793; lax? c.820; secular collegiate and nuns from before 940; Benedictine monks and nuns c.970 to 1140; Benedictine monks from 1140; dissolved 5 December 1539; parochial thereafter; episcopal diocesan cathedral founded 1877; extant | The Cathedral and Abbey Church of Saint Alban, St Albans | |
| St Albans Nunnery | Benedictine nuns — with regular priests or brethren; attached to the abbey, living near the almonry; founded before 940; transferred to Sopwell 1140 | ||
| St Mary de Pre Priory | leper hospital founded 1194 by Warin, Abbot of St Albans; Benedictine nuns with regular priests or brethren c.1328; Benedictine nuns founded after 1352; abandoned 1528; annexed to St Albans; granted to Ralph Rawlet, Esq. 1540/1 | St Mary de Pré Priory; St Mary de Pre Nunnery; De La Praye Nunnery | |
| St Margaret's Priory | Benedictine nuns founded before 1129, possibly by William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester, grants confirmed after his death 1129; dissolved 1536 | Ivinghoe Priory | |
| Sawbridgeworth Priory | Benedictine monks probable cell dependent on Westminster Abbey founded c.1135 ; conventual church now in parochial use as the Parish Church of St Mary the Great | ||
| Sopwell Priory | purportedly a hermitage prior to Benedictine foundation; Benedictine nuns founded 1140 by Geoffrey, Abbott of St Albans; subject to the abbess of St Albans c.1330; dissolved 1537 | St Mary ____________________ Sopewell Priory | |
| Standon Cell | Sisters of the Order of St John of Jerusalem dissolved c.1180: transferred to Sisters of St John Priory, Buckland, Somerset | ||
| Standon Preceptory | Knights Hospitaller founded 1147 by Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hereford; dissolved before 1443-4; leased out 1330; revived; under a preceptor 1360; leased out before 1443-4 | ||
| Standon Priory | hermitage built by William the Anchorite Benedictine monks alien house: cell dependent on Stoke by Clare, Suffolk founded 1173 and 1178 when Richard de Clare Earl of Hertford granted to his monks of Stoke the hermitage; dissolved c.1306; apparently reverted to a hermitage or chapel 1306; granted to Stoke College 1415 | The Priory Church of St Michael of Salburn in Standon ____________________ Salburn Priory in Standon; Salburn Priory | |
| Temple Dinsley Preceptory # | Knights Templar founded 1147 : granted by Bernard de Balliol, preceptory established later; dissolved 1308-12; Knights Hospitaller refounded 1324; let privately 1338; preceptory founded after 1338; leased to the preceptor of Ribstone and Mount St John 1498; let out privately 1507; granted by Henry VIII to Sir Ralph Sadler demolished 1712; site now occupied by The Princess Helena College built 1714 | Temple Dynnesley Preceptory | |
| Ware Priory #+ | Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on St-Evroul; founded before 1081, with endowment by Hugo de Grentemaisnil; dissolved 1414; granted to the Carthusians at Sheen, Surrey ; granted by Henry VIII; The old rectory or manor house built on the site early-17th century, altered 18th and 19th century; conventual church much altered, now in parochial use as parish church of St Mary the Virgin;— little, if any, remaining monastic fabric | ||
| Ware Greyfriars | Franciscan Friars Minor founded 1338 by Thomas second Lord Wake of Liddell, who received the king's permission in February 1338 to give to the Friars Minors property and land; dissolved 1538;; private residence 1544; incorporated into a house named 'The Priory' | ||
| Wormley Priory + | Augustinian Canons Regular cell, dependent on Waltham, Essex; founded after 1177 and before c.1260; dissolved c.1510: alienated from Waltham; church restored 19th century; now in use of parish church of St Laurence | St Lawrence ____________________ Prior Sancti Laurentii de Worem | |
| Wymondley Priory, Little Wymondley | hospital founded before 1218 by Richard Argentein; Augustinian Canons Regular founded soon after; hospital continued until 1290; dissolved 6 April 1537; granted to James Nedeham, surveyor of the king's works, 1541/2; site now occupied by a Tudor Tithe barn | St Mary ____________________ Little Wymondley Priory; Wymondesley Parva Priory'' |