The following is a list of the monastic houses in Hertfordshire, England.
FoundationImage Communities & provenanceFormal name or dedication & alternative names !width = 10%|References & locationAshridge Priorymonastery or college of the Precious Blood;Bonshommes monksfounded 1283 by Edmund, Earl of Cornwall;dissolved 16 November 1539the Precious Blood |Barden Priory?Augustinian Canons Regularpossibly Berden, Essex or the hospital at Bigging (Berdene in Anstey)St Mary |Cathale PrioryBenedictine nunsfounded before 1189(?) (c.1200) 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 PrioryBenedictine nunsfounded before 1183;dissolved 1536; granted to Sir Anthony Deny 1536/7Cestrehunt Priory;Chesthunt Priory |British History Online — Houses of Benedictine nuns: Cheshunt Priory — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 4 (pp.426-428)Flamstead PrioryBenedictine nunsfounded c.1150 (during the reign of Stephen) by Roger de Toney;dissolved 1537; granted to Sir Richard Page 1539/40;site now occupied by Beechwood Park SchoolFlamsted Priory |Hertford Priory #Benedictine monksfounded before 1093 (during the incumbency of Abbot Paul and during the reign of William the ConquerorHertford Priory: Cobbett) 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 churchSt Mary |Hertford Trinitarian Priorylepers' hospital of St Mary Magdelene (founded before 1199) taken over by Trinitarians;Trinitarian monksfounded c.1261; apparently under Easton, Wiltshire until 1448 as a hospital; later under Moatenden;apparently abandoned before 1535(?) St Mary Magdalene (before 1199)Holy Trinity and St Thomas Martyr c.1261 |British History Online — Friaries: Trinitarian friars of Hertford — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 4 (pp.452-453)Hitchin WhitefriarsCarmelite Friarsfounded 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 siteSt Mary____________________Hitchin 'Priory|British History Online — Hitchin: Priory church and charities — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 3 (pp.12-21) |- valign=top |Hitchin Priory | ||Gilbertine CanonsHitchin Priory: mistakenly recorded as a nunnery by T. Tanner, Notitia Monasticafounded 1361-2 by Edward de Kendale;dissolved 1538 ||St Saviour | |- valign=top |Hitchin Minster | ||Saxon minsterfounded before 11th century (references 10th & 11th century);parochial church before 1086
|- valign=top |Muresley Priory, | ||Benedictine nunsfounded between 1107 and 1129, reputedly by Walter Giffard, bishop of Winchester (who died 1129), (or c.1160 or 1133);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 | |- valign=top |King's Langley Priory | ||Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of Cambridge)founded before 1308;dissolved 1538;Dominican nuns — from Dartfordrefounded 1557;dissolved 1558: nuns transferred to Dartford ||King's Langley Blackfriars |British History Online — Friaries: King's Langley priory — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 4 (pp.446-451) |- valign=top |Lannock | ||Knights Templarfounded before 1148 (manor granted to Templars but no preceptory founded);Knights Hospitallerlet privately 1338
|- valign=top |Markyate Priory # | ||hermitagebefore 1145;Benedictine nunsfounded 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 |British History Online — Houses of Benedictine nuns: The priory of Markyate — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Bedford: Volume 1 (pp.358-361)Markyate Markyate Parish Council Church of St John the Baptst — Markyate — Hertfordshire — England | British Listed Buildings |- valign=top |Mirdial Priory? | ||purported Augustinian Canons Regular (evidence lacking) ||St Mary | |- valign=top |New Biggin Priory # | ||Gilbertine Priorypriory cellfounded 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 |British History Online — House of Gilbertine canons: New Bigging priory, Hitchin — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 4 (p.443) |- valign=top |Redbourn Priory | ||Benedictine monkscell 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 |British History Online — Houses of Benedictine monks: Redbourn Priory — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 4 (pp.416-419) |- valign=top |Rowney Priory ^(?) | ||Benedictine nunsfounded 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 |British History Online — Houses of Benedictine nuns: Rowney Priory, Great Munden — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 4 (pp.434-435) |- valign=top |Royston Priory | ||Augustinian Canons Regularfounded 1173-9 by Ralph de Rochester (on the site of a chapel built by his uncle Eustace de Merk) 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 |British History Online — Houses of Austin canons: Royston priory — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 4 (pp.436-440) |- valign=top |St Albans Abbey + | ||Benedictine? monksfounded c.793;lax? c.820;secular collegiate and nuns from before 940;Benedictine monks and nuns c.970 (976) to 1140;Benedictine monksfrom 1140;dissolved 5 December 1539;parochial thereafter;episcopal diocesan cathedralfounded 1877; extant ||The Cathedral and Abbey Church of Saint Alban, St Albans |British History Online — Houses of Benedictine monks: St Albans Abbey — Before the Conquest — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 4 (pp.367-372)British History Online — Houses of Benedictine monks: St Albans Abbey — After the Conquest — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 4 (pp.372-416) |- valign=top |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
|- valign=top |St Mary de Pre Priory | ||leper hospitalfounded 1194 by Warin (Garinus), Abbot of St Albans;Benedictine nuns with regular priests or brethrenc.1328;Benedictine nunsfounded 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 | |- valign=top |St Margaret's Priory | ||Benedictine nunsfounded before 1129, possibly by William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester, grants confirmed after his death 1129;dissolved 1536 ||Ivinghoe Priory | |- valign=top |Sawbridgeworth Priory | ||Benedictine monksprobable cell dependent on Westminster Abbeyfounded c.1135 (late in the reign of Henry I or during that of Stephen);conventual church now in parochial use as the Parish Church of St Mary the Great | |British History Online — RELIGIOUS HOUSES: Introduction — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 4 (pp.365-367) |- valign=top |Sopwell Priory | ||purportedly a hermitage prior to Benedictine foundation;Benedictine nunsfounded 1140 by Geoffrey, Abbott of St Albans;subject to the abbess of St Albans c.1330;dissolved 1537 ||St Mary____________________Sopewell Priory |British History Online — Houses of Benedictine nuns: Sopwell Priory — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 4 (pp.422-426) |- valign=top |Standon Cell | ||Sisters of the Order of St John of Jerusalemdissolved c.1180: transferred to Sisters of St John Priory, Buckland, Somerset
|- valign=top |Standon Preceptory | ||Knights Hospitallerfounded 1147 (before 1154) (during the reign of Stephen) by Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hereford;dissolved before 1443–4;leased out 1330;revived; under a preceptor 1360;leased out before 1443–4 | |British History Online — House of Knights Hospitallers: Preceptory of Standon — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 4 (p.444) |- valign=top |Standon Priory | ||hermitage built by William the AnchoriteBenedictine monksalien house: cell dependent on Stoke by Clare, Suffolkfounded 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 |British History Online — Houses of Benedictine monks: Salburn priory in Standon — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 4 (pp.421-422) |- valign=top |Temple Dinsley Preceptory # | ||Knights Templarfounded 1147 (during the reign of Stephen): granted by Bernard de Balliol, preceptory established later;dissolved 1308–12;Knights Hospitallerrefounded 1324; let privately 1338;preceptoryfounded after 1338;leased to the preceptor of Ribstone and Mount St John 1498;let out privately 1507; granted by Henry VIII to Sir Ralph Sadlerdemolished 1712;site now occupied by The Princess Helena College built 1714 ||Temple Dynnesley Preceptory |British History Online — House of Knights Templars: Preceptory of Temple Dinsley — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 4 (pp.445-446) |- valign=top |Ware Priory #+ | ||Benedictine monksalien house: dependent on St-Evroul;founded before 1081, with endowment by Hugo de Grentemaisnil;dissolved 1414; granted to the Carthusians at Sheen, Surrey (Greater London);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 | |British History Online — Alien House: Ware Priory — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 4 (pp.451) |- valign=top |Ware Greyfriars |