List of monastic houses on the Isle of Wight

The following is a list of the monastic houses on the Isle of Wight in England.

FoundationImageCommunities and provenanceFormal name or dedication and alternative names !width = 10%|References and locationAppuldurcombe House, WroxallBenedictine monksalien house dependent on Montebourg;founded c.1100: manor granted by Richard de Redvers to Montebourg Abbey before 1090; dissolved 1414; 16th century Elizabethan house built on site; hotel 1859; leased for use as a college for young gentlemen 1867-1890s; Benedictine monks founded 1901–1908; virtually abandoned 1909; used to accommodate troops in the two World Wars; damaged by a mine 1943; currently a shell internally in ruins; (EH)St Mary |Barton PrioryAugustinian Canons Regular — from Cambridgepriory(?)founded 1275 by John Insula, Rector of Shalfleet and Thomas de Winton, Rector of Godshill; dissolved 1439; granted to Winchester CollegeThe Holy TrinityBarton Oratory;Burton College |British History Online — Houses of Austin canons: Oratory of Barton — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 2 (pp.180-181)St Mary's Priory, Carisbrooke#Cistercian monksalien house: priory cell dependent on Lire Abbey;founded c.1156 by Baldwin de Redvers: granted to Lire by William fitz Osbern, Marshall of William the Conqueror;granted to Mount Grace, Yorkshire, by Richard II;Benedictine monksrestored by Henry IV;dissolved 1414; granted to the Carthusians at Sheen, Surrey by Henry VThe Priory Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Carisbrooke |British History Online — Alien houses: Carisbrooke priory — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 2 (pp.230-231)Carisbrooke Priory *Dominican nunscurrently owned by the Carisbrooke Priory Trust, a registered charity;extantThe Open Door |Newport Whitefriars?Carmelite FriarsNewport Whitefriars: only reference Bale: K. Egan, The Establishment and early Development of the Carmelite Order in England (PhD thesis, Cambridge 19665) citing B.M., Ms Cotton Titus D. X. f.128; B.M., MS. Harley p.539, f.144|Quarr AbbeySavignac monksfounded 27 April 1132 by Baldwin de Redvers (Redveriis);Cistercian monksorders merged 17 September 1147; dissolved 1536; granted to John and George Mills 1544/5The Abbey Church of Our Lady of the QuarryQuarrer Abbey |British History Online — Houses of Cistercian monks: Abbey of Quarr — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 2 (pp.137-139)Quarr Abbey *, BinstedBenedictine monksfounded 24 May 1907 from Appuldurcombe Housecurrent house constructed from the ruined masonry of the former abbey; extant|http://www.quarrabbey.co.uk/St Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde *Appley House, RydeSolesmes nunsreturned to France from exileBenedictine nuns daughter of Liege Abbey; founded at Ventnor 1882; transferred to Appley House 1922; priory attained abbey status 1926; aggregated into the Solesmes Community 1950; extantPriory of the Peace of the Heart of JesusAbbey of the Peace of the Heart of Jesus (1926) |St. Cecilia's AbbeySt Cross PrioryTironensian monksalien house: cell dependent Tiron; founded before 1132 (c.1120): church founded (in the tenure of Gervase, Abbot de Insula (Quarr)) by Robert Colaws; dissolved 1391; granted to Winchester College; site apparently occupied by a viaduct and railway|British History Online — Alien houses: Priory of St Cross, Isle of Wight — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 2 (p.225)St Helen's PrioryCluniac monksalien house: dependent on Wenlock, Shropshire;founded c.1090 (before 1155);dissolved 1414|British History Online — Alien houses: Priory of St Helen — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 2 (pp.215-216)Ventnor Priory, Steephill ViewBenedictine nunsdaughter of Liege Abbey, Belgium, founded 1882; transferred to Appley House, Ryde 1922;Steephill View house now demolished;Priory Lodge, built 1970, now occupies the sitePax Cordis Jesu |

See also List of monastic houses in England

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