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Monasteries dissolved under the English Reformation

  • Westminster AbbeyIn the mid-10th century, a community of Benedictine monks settled on Thorney Island in the River Thames. This location became the site of an abbey dedicated…
  • Dunstable PrioryKing Henry I established the Augustinian priory in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, during the year 1132. He granted the monastery the lordship of the manor and town…
  • Syon AbbeyKing Henry V laid the first stone of Syon Abbey on the 22nd of February 1415. He stood before Richard Clifford, Bishop of London, to mark this moment in…
  • LindisfarneThe name Lindisfarne appears in the Parker and Peterborough versions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 793. In the 9th-century, the island appears under its…
  • St Helen's Church, BishopsgateIn 1210, the Dean and chapter of St. Paul's gave William, son of William Goldsmith, permission to establish a priory of Benedictine nuns.