At the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries there were 282 monasteries and 92 nunneries.
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Abbotsbury Abbey (Dorset) – founded 1044
Abingdon Abbey (Oxon)- founded 954
Ankerwyke Priory (Berks) – founded 1160 (nuns)
Armathwaite Nunnery (Cumbria) (nuns)
Binham Priory, Norfolk
B
Bardney Abbey (Lincs) – founded 1087
Bath Abbey (Somerset) – founded 1090 (This was a cathedral priory)
Battle Abbey (Sussex) – founded 1067
Beadlow Priory (Beds) – founded 1140
Binham Priory (Norfolk) – founded 1091
Birkenhead Priory (Merseyside) – founded 1150
Bishopgate St Helens (London) – founded 1258 (nuns)
Blyth Priory (Notts) – founded 1088
Boxgrove Priory (Sussex) –founded 1105
Bradwell Priory (Bucks) – founded 1136
Bromfield Priory (Shrops) – founded 1155
Bromhall Priory (Berks)- (nuns)
Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk) – refounded 1020
C
St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury (Kent)- refounded 1070
Canterbury Cathedral-Priory (Kent) – refounded 997
Cerne Abbas (Dorset) – founded 987
Chepstow Priory
Chertsey Abbey (Surrey)
Chester Abbey (Cheshire)- founded 1092
Chester Priory (Cheshire)- founded 1140 (nuns)
Colchester St. John . This abbey was founded in 1096
Coventry Abbey (West Midlands) founded 1043
Croyland Abbey (Lincs) – founded 716
D
Deeping St James (Lincs)- founded 1139. This was a priory cell.
Deerhurst Priory- (Gloucs)- founded 1059 This priory still retains its Saxon monastic church.
Denny Abbey (Cambs) – founded 1159
King’s Mead Priory, Derby (Derbys)- founded 1149 (nuns)
St Martin’s Priory Dover (Kent) –founded 1136
Dunster Priory (Somerset) –founded 1090
Durham Cathedral Priory- founded 1083
E
Elstow Abbey (Beds)- founded 1078 (nuns)
Ely Cathedral Priory (Cambs)- refounded 1083
Evesham Abbey (Worcs)- founded 995
St Nicholas’s Priory, Exeter (Deven) – founded 1087
F
Finchdale Priory (Durham) – founded 1196. It was originally a hermitage for two monks.
Freiston Priory (Lincs) – founded 1114.
G
Glastonbury Abbey (Somerset) – refounded c. 1189
Gloucester Cathedral Priory (Gloucs)- founded 1058
Great Malvern Priory (Worcs)- founded 1085
Great Yarmouth Priory (Norfolk)- founded 1101
H
St Faith’s Priory Horsham (Norfolk)- founded 1105
Hurley Priory (Berks)- founded 1087
I
Isleham Priory (Cambs)- founded 1100
J
Jarrow Priory (Tyne and Wear) – founded 1074
K
L
St Mary’s Priory Lancaster (Lancs)- founded 1094
Lastingham Abbey (Yorks)- founded 1078
Leominster Priory (Hereford) – founded 1123 Initially this priory was founded for nuns but later they were replaced by monks.
Leonard Stanley Priory (Gloucs) – founded 1146
Lindesfarne Priory (Northumberland) -refounded 1083
Little Malvern Priory (Worcs) – founded 1171
M
Malmsebury Abbey (Wilts)- founded 970
Milton Abbey (Dorset)- founded 964
Minster-in-Sheppey Priory (Kent) – refounded 1087 (nuns)
Monk Bretton Priory (Yorks)
Monk Sherbourne Priory (Hamps)- founded 1130
Monkwearmouth (Tyne and Wear) – founded 1083 This was a priory cell.
Morville (Shrops)- founded 1138 This was a priory cell.
Muchelney Abbey (Somerset) – refounded 939
N
Norwich Cathedral-Priory (Norfolk) – founded 1095
Nun Monkton (Yorks) (nuns)
O
P
Pershore Abbey (Worcs)- founded 970
Perborough Abbey (Cambs) – founded 966
Pilton Priory (Devon)- founded 1200
R
Ramsey Abbey (Cambs)- founded 969
Reading Abbey (Berks)- founded 1121
Rochester Cathedral Priory (Kent) – refounded 1080
Romsey Abbey (Hamps)- founded 967 (nuns)
St Martin’s Abbey, Richmond (Yorks) founded 1137
S
St Albans Cathedral-Prioy (Herts) – refounded 1077
St Bees Priory (Cumbria) –founded 1120
St Benet of Hulme Abbey (Norfolk) – founded1019
St Michael’s Mount (Cornwall)- founded 1050
Seaton Priory (Cumbria)- founded 1190 (nuns)
Selby Abbey (Yorks)- founded 1069
Sherbourne Abbey (Dorset)- founded 993
Shrewsbury Abbey (Shropshire) – founded 1083
Steventon Priory (Oxon) –founded 1135
Stogursey Priory (Someset) – founded 1107
Stoke-By-Clare Priory (Suffolk) – founded 1124
Swavesey Priory (Cambs)- founded1086
T
Tavistock Abbey (Devon) – founded 980
Tewkesbury Abbey (Gloucs)- refounded 1102
Thorney Abbey (Cambs)- founded 973
Tutbury Priory (Staffs) – founded 1080
Tynemouth Priory (Tyne and Wear) – refounded 1089
U
Upholland Priory (Greater Manchester)- founded 1319
Usk Abbey
W
Westminster Abbey (London)
Wetheral Priory (Cumbria) – founded 1106
Whitby Abbey (Yorks)- refounded 1078
Wilmington Priory (Sussex)- founded 1086
Winchester Cathedral-Priory (Hamps) –founded 1079
Worcester Cathedral-Priory (Worcs) – refounded 961
Wymondham Abbey (Norfolk) – founded 1107
Y
Holy Trinity Priory, York. – founded1089
St Mary’s Abbey, York – founded 1088
HI, Julia – thanks for this and congratulations on the site.
This is no criticism because, frankly, it is a commonplace but you have omitted HYDE ABBEY in Winchester (quite different from the monastery attached to the cathedral). But then, astonishingly, everyone omits Hyde despite the fact that it was the burial place of King Alfred the Great and, until dissolution in 1538, was one of the richest and most important abbeys in the country.
Hyde was founded in 1110 and inherited the community of New Minster in central Winchester, adjacent to the current cathedral. As well as the graves of Alfred, his son Edward the Elder and his wife Aelswith it also had a large and important collection of relics and manuscripts, several of which featured prominently in the recent exhibition ANGLO-SAXON KINGDOMS exhibition at the British Library. So probably worth adding to your very useful list.