Best of West Midlands
The 20 best abbeys & priories in West Midlands
Our curated top 20 abbeys & priories in West Midlands, ranked by quality rating, image richness and content depth. For the complete list of 121 abbeys & priories see the full abbeys & priories index for West Midlands.
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Vale Royal Abbey
Vale Royal Abbey is a former medieval abbey and later country house in Whitegate, England. The precise location and boundaries of the abbey are difficult to determine in today's landscape. The origina
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Leicester Abbey
The Abbey of Saint Mary de Pratis, more commonly known as Leicester Abbey, was an Augustinian religious house in the city of Leicester, in Leicestershire, England. The abbey was founded in the 12th ce
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Convent of Poor Clares
Gloucestershire
A former Convent of Poor Clares is located in Woodchester, near Stroud in Gloucestershire. The convent was home to nuns of the Poor Clares order from 1850 to 2011. The convent is based around a 17th-c
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Halesowen Abbey
Halesowen Abbey was a Premonstratensian abbey in Halesowen, England of which only ruins remain. Founded by Peter des Roches with a grant of land from King John, the abbey's official year of inaugurati
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Whitefriars, Coventry
The buildings known as Whitefriars are the surviving fragments of a Carmelite friary founded in 1342 in Coventry, England. It was initially home to a friary until the dissolution of the monasteries. D
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Tewkesbury Abbey
Gloucestershire
The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Tewkesbury, commonly known as Tewkesbury Abbey, is located in the town of Tewkesbury in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, England. A former Benedictine
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Buildwas Abbey
Buildwas Abbey was a Cistercian (originally Savigniac) monastery located on the banks of the River Severn, at Buildwas in Shropshire, England - today about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Ironbridge. Founded
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Greyfriars, Leicester
Greyfriars, Leicester, was a friary of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the Franciscans, established on the west side of Leicester by 1250, and dissolved in 1538. Following dissolution the
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The Charterhouse
Charterhouse, Coventry (also known as St. Anne's Priory, Coventry) is a grade I listed building on London Road, Coventry, in the West Midlands, England. The current building incorporates remains from
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Winchcombe Abbey
Gloucestershire
Winchcombe Abbey is a now-vanished Benedictine abbey in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire; this abbey was once in the heart of Mercia, an Anglo Saxon kingdom at the time of the Heptarchy in England. The Abb
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Ranton Abbey
Staffordshire
Ranton Abbey or Ranton Priory was an Augustinian Priory in Ranton, Staffordshire, England, built c.1150 by Robert fitz Noel of Ellenhall. The priory flourished in the 13th century as a subordinate hou
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Church of St Mary the Virgin
St Mary the Virgin's Church is an Anglican Church and the parish church of Maidwell, Northamptonshire. It is a Grade II* listed building and stands on the south side of Draughton Road. There is no ref
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Lavendon Abbey
Lavendon Abbey was a Premonstratensian abbey near Lavendon in Buckinghamshire, England. The abbey was established by John de Bidun between 1154 and 1158 and dedicated to John the Baptist. Bidun's dona
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Rewley Abbey
Oxfordshire
The Cistercian Abbey of Rewley was an abbey in Oxford, England. It was founded in the 13th century by Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall. Edmund's father, Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, founder of Hailes Ab
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Evesham Abbey
Worcestershire
Evesham Abbey was founded by Saint Egwin at Evesham in Worcestershire, England between 700 and 710 following an alleged vision of the Virgin Mary by a swineherd by the name of Eof. According to the mo
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Bordesley Abbey
Worcestershire
Bordesley Abbey was a 12th-century Cistercian abbey near the town of Redditch, in Worcestershire, England. The abbey's foundation was an act of Waleran de Beaumont, Count of Meulan, who gave the monks
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Hulton Abbey
Hulton Abbey is a scheduled monument in the United Kingdom, a former monastery located in what is now Abbey Hulton, a suburb of Stoke-on-Trent. A daughter house of the Cistercian Combermere Abbey, the
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Alcester Abbey
Warwickshire
Alcester Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Alcester, Warwickshire in England, founded in 1138 by the Botellers of Oversley, Warwickshire. Its many endowments included the Chapel of St. James and St
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47, Delamere Street
Details SJ 75 NW FORMER BOROUGH OF CREWE DELAMERE STREET 2/41 No.47 GV II Formerly railway manager's house, later a private dwelling, now a convent for a small community of nuns, circa 1850. Red and b
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Church of St Denys
Oxfordshire
Details SU 57 SE 6/31 STANFORD DINGLEY Church of St. Denys GV I Church. C12, C13 and C14 with early C18 chancel. Restored 1870 and 1885. Flint with Bath stone dressings, brick chancel with plinth, sto