list of monastic houses in the west midlands (county)
alphabetical listing of establishments
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Communities & Provenance

Formal Name or Dedication
& Alternative Names

OnLine References & Location

Balsall Preceptory

Knights Templar
founded 1146 (c.1142) (during the reign of King Stephen) by Roger Mowbray;
preceptory before 1226;
dissolved 1308-12;
Knights Hospitaller 1322;
dissolved 1470, jointly with Grafton; granted to Sir Robert Dudley 1565/6;
became part of the holdings of the prior of the order in England 1476;
became ruinous;
restored 1622;
in use as chapel for the local almshouse 1677;
church became parochial church 1863;
now under trusteeship of The Foundation of Lady Katherine Leveson, with public access by arrangement

church: The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin
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Temple Balsall;
Balsall and Grafton Preceptory;
Balshall Preceptory

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52°22′54″N 1°41′50″W﻿ / ﻿52.3815492°N 1.6973528°W﻿ / 52.3815492; -1.6973528﻿ (Balsall Preceptory)

Coventry Greyfriars

Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Worcester)
founded before 1234 by Ralph, Earl of Chester;
dissolved 5 October 1538; granted to the Mayor and bailiffs of Coventry 1542/3

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52°24′21″N 1°30′41″W﻿ / ﻿52.4057604°N 1.5115106°W﻿ / 52.4057604; -1.5115106﻿ (Coventry Greyfriars)

Coventry — St Anne's Priory

Carthusian monks — from London Charterhouse, Middlesex and Beauvale
founded 1381 by William, Lord Zouch, of Harrington;
dissolved 16 January 1539; granted to Richard Andrews and Leonard Chamberlain 1542/3

The Priory Church of Saint Anne, Coventry

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52°24′04″N 1°29′41″W﻿ / ﻿52.4010099°N 1.494773°W﻿ / 52.4010099; -1.494773﻿ (Coventry — St Anne's Priory)

Coventry — St Mary's Priory

purported Saxon nunnery destroyed by in raids by the Danes 1016;
Benedictine monks
founded 1043(?) by Leofric, Earl of Mercia and his wife Lady Godiva: papal confirmation 1043;
abbatial-episcopal diocesan cathedral priory
founded 1102: see transferred from Chester;
dissolved 15 January 1539: see transferred to Lichfield

The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Saint Peter and Saint Osburg, Coventry

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52°24′32″N 1°30′31″W﻿ / ﻿52.4089511°N 1.5086916°W﻿ / 52.4089511; -1.5086916﻿ (Coventry Priory)

Coventry Whitefriars

Carmelite Friars
friary proposed 1287, forbidden;
founded 1342, built by Sir John Poultney, citizen of London and five times Lord Mayor;
dissolved 1 October 1538; granted to Ralph Sadler 1544/5

St Mary

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52°24′51″N 1°30′06″W﻿ / ﻿52.4140787°N 1.5017098°W﻿ / 52.4140787; -1.5017098﻿ (Coventry Whitefriars)

Dudley Priory

Cluniac monks
alien house: dependent on Wenlock Priory, Shropshire;
founded 1149-60 by Gervase Pagnell (Painell), carrying out the intentions of his father Ralph, lord of the manor;
became denizen: independent from 1395;
dissolved 1539; granted to Sir John Dudley 1540/1;site now located in public Priory Park

The Priory Church of Saint James, Dudley

Halesowen Abbey

Premonstratensian Canons — from Welbeck, Nottinghamshire
founded 1218 by Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester, (charter 1215), manor granted by King John 1214, canons arrived 1218;
dissolved 9 June 1538;
remains of abbey church and cloister in use as barn on Manor Abbey Farm; (EH)

The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint John the Evangelist, Halesowen

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52°26′37″N 2°02′13″W﻿ / ﻿52.4434811°N 2.0369393°W﻿ / 52.4434811; -2.0369393﻿ (Halesowen Abbey)

Henwood Priory

Benedictine nuns
founded 1154-9 (during the reign of Henry II, under Walter Durdent, Bishop of Chester (Coventry)) by Ketelberne (Katelbern) de Langdon;
dissolved 1536; granted to John Higford 1539/40

The Priory Church of Saint Margaret, Henwood
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Heanwood Priory

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52°24′21″N 1°43′47″W﻿ / ﻿52.4057244°N 1.7297539°W﻿ / 52.4057244; -1.7297539﻿ (Henwood Priory)

Sandwell Priory

hermitage before 1180;
Benedictine monks
founded c.1190[note 1] (c.1180[note 2]) by William, son of Guy de Offney;
dissolved 1524 (7 June 1525[note 3])

The Priory Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Sandwell

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52°31′13″N 1°57′53″W﻿ / ﻿52.5202017°N 1.9647101°W﻿ / 52.5202017; -1.9647101﻿ (Sandwell Priory)

Westwood Priory

Fontefralt Benedictine nuns and brothers — double house
alien house: cell dependent on Fontévrault;
founded after 1154 (early in the reign of Henry II), land and other endowments granted by Osbert FitzHugh and his mother Eustacia de Say;
Benedictine nuns
appears to have become a regular Benedictine community after c.1374;
became denizen: independent from before 1412(?);
dissolved 1553; granted to John Pakinton 1538/9

The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Westwood

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52°16′23″N 2°11′05″W﻿ / ﻿52.2731109°N 2.1845976°W﻿ / 52.2731109; -2.1845976﻿ (Westwood Priory)

Witton Priory +(?)

Augustinian Canons Regular
founded c.1135 (late in the reign of Henry I or early in the reign of Stephen) by Peter Corbezun (later de Studley;
transferred to Studley c.1151 by Peter Corbezun;
conventual church possibly in parochial use as the Parish Church of St Peter-de-Witton

St Mary the Virgin
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Witton St Peter by Droitwich Priory

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52°15′38″N 2°08′41″W﻿ / ﻿52.2605602°N 2.1446246°W﻿ / 52.2605602; -2.1446246﻿ (Witton Priory)

Carmelite Monastery, Wolverhampton *

Carmelite nuns
extant

[21]
52°34′11″N 2°08′47″W﻿ / ﻿52.5697268°N 2.1464941°W﻿ / 52.5697268; -2.1464941﻿ (Carmelite Monastery Wolverhampton)

Wolverhampton Monastery (?)

Saxon monks
founded 659? traditionally by Wulfhere, King of Mercia;
possibly refounded 994 by Lady Wulfran, land granted to Wulfgeat, kinsman of Lady Wulfran, by King Edgar, confirmed by Sigeric, Archbishop of Canterbury;
secular collegiate
founded c.994 possibly on the site of earlier monastery;
dissolved 1538;
restored 1852-65 by Ewen Christian

St Mary
St Peter

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52°35′13″N 2°07′41″W﻿ / ﻿52.5869°N 2.128°W﻿ / 52.5869; -2.128﻿ (Wolverhampton Monastery)

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