List of monastic houses in the West Midlands (county)

The following is a list of the monastic houses in the West Midlands, England.

FoundationImageCommunities & provenanceFormal name or dedication & alternative names !width = 10%|References & locationBalsall Preceptory +Knights Templarfounded 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 1863;now under trusteeship of The Foundation of Lady Katherine Leveson, with public access by arrangementchurch: The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin____________________Temple Balsall;Balsall and Grafton Preceptory;Balshall Preceptory |Houses of Knights Hospitaller — Preceptory of Balsall and Grafton — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 2 (pp.100-101)Coventry GreyfriarsFranciscan 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|Friaries — Franciscan friars of Coventry — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 2 (pp.103-104)Coventry — St Anne's Priory ^Carthusian monks — from London Charterhouse, Middlesex and Beauvalefounded 1381 by William, Lord Zouch, of Harrington;dissolved 16 January 1539; granted to Richard Andrews and Leonard Chamberlain 1542/3The Priory Church of Saint Anne, Coventry |British History Online — Houses of Carthusian monks: Priory of St Anne, Coventry — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 2 (pp.83-86)Coventry — St Mary's Priorypurported Saxon nunnery destroyed by in raids by the Danes 1016;Benedictine monksfounded 1043(?) by Leofric, Earl of Mercia and his wife Lady Godiva: papal confirmation 1043;abbatial-episcopal diocesan cathedral prioryfounded 1102: see transferred from Chester;dissolved 15 January 1539: see transferred to LichfieldThe Priory Church of Saint Mary, Saint Peter and Saint Osburg, Coventry |British History Online — Houses of Benedictine monks: Priory of Coventry — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 2 (pp.52-59)St. Mary's, Coventry's First Cathedral: St. Mary's Priory & Cathedral: IntroductionCoventry WhitefriarsCarmelite Friarsfriary 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 1544/5St Mary |Friaries — Carmelite friars of Coventry — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 2 (pp.104-105)Dudley PrioryCluniac monksalien 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 ParkThe Priory Church of Saint James, Dudley |Halesowen AbbeyPremonstratensian Canons — from Welbeck, Nottinghamshirefounded 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 |Henwood Priory #Benedictine nunsfounded 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 1539/40The Priory Church of Saint Margaret, Henwood____________________Heanwood Priory |British History Online — Houses of Benedictine nuns — Priory of Henwood — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 2 (pp.65-66)Sandwell Prioryhermitage before 1180;Benedictine monksfounded c.1190Sandwell — founded 1190: W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum; (c.1180Sandwell — founded 1180: Victoria County History: A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 3, p.216) by William, son of Guy de Offney;dissolved 1524 (7 June 1525Sandwell — dissolution 7 June 1525: T. Tanner, Notitia Monastica, Preface, p.xxxv)The Priory Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Sandwell |British History Online — Houses of Benedictine monks — The priory of Sandwell — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 3 (pp. 216–219)Wolverhampton Carmelite Monastery *Carmelite nunsextant|Wolverhampton Monastery (?) +Saxon monksfounded 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 collegiatefounded c.994 possibly on the site of earlier monastery;dissolved 1538;restored 1852-65 by Ewen ChristianSt MarySt Peter |

See also List of monastic houses in England

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