Best of North Wales
The 19 best abbeys & priories in North Wales
Our curated top 19 abbeys & priories in North Wales, ranked by quality rating, image richness and content depth. For the complete list of 32 abbeys & priories see the full abbeys & priories index for North Wales.
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Haughmond Abbey
Haughmond Abbey (locally HOE-mənd) is a ruined, medieval, Augustinian monastery a few miles from Shrewsbury, England. It was probably founded in the early 12th century and was closely associated with
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Bardsey Abbey
The ruins of the Abbey of St Mary, stand at the northern end of Bardsey Island, south-west of the Lleyn Peninsula, in Gwynedd, Wales. The site has had religious importance from at least the 6th centur
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St Giles' Church
St Giles' Parish Church (Welsh: Eglwys San Silyn) is the parish church of Wrexham, Wales. The church is recognised as one of the finest examples of ecclesiastical architecture in Wales and is a Grade
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Valle Crucis Abbey
Valle Crucis Abbey (Valley of the Cross) is a Cistercian abbey located in Llantysilio in Denbighshire, north Wales. More formally the Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Valle Crucis it is known
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Norton Priory Museum and Gardens
Norton Priory is a historic site in Norton, Runcorn, Cheshire, England, comprising the remains of an abbey complex dating from the 12th to 16th centuries, and an 18th-century country house; it is now
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Shrewsbury Abbey
The Abbey Church of the Holy Cross (commonly known as Shrewsbury Abbey) is an ancient foundation in Shrewsbury, the county town of Shropshire, England. The Abbey was founded in 1083 as a Benedictine m
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Bishop Eton Monastery
Details SJ 4088 WOOLTON ROAD L16 35/1389 Bishop Eton 12.7.66 Monastery G.V. II* Monastery with attached chapel. Monastery, 1858, Edward Welby Pugin with extensions of 1889. Chapel begun 1851, Augustus
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Central Block Of Convent Of Notre Dame Including Chapel
Details SJ 3590 SE MOUNT PLEASANT (south side) L3 55/790 No. 92 (Central block of Convent of Notre Dame including 13.11.80 Chapel) G.V. II Convent building and chapel. 1857. Architect Charles Hansom.
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Convent of Mercy
Details This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 March 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards SJ 3990 29/1078 ST OSWALD'S STREET L13 No 43 (Former
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Windleshaw Chantry
Details The monument includes the ruins of the medieval Roman Catholic chapel of St Thomas of Canterbury which are popularly known as Windleshaw Abbey. There was never an abbey on this site and the re
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Combermere Abbey (house)
Details SJ 54 SE 6/22 DODCOTT CUM WILKESLEY C.P. COMBERMERE PARK Combermere Abbey 10.6.52 GV I Country house, formerly abbey buildings. Founded in 1133 as a Cisterian monastery by Hugh de Malbank. Not
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Cathedral House and former Convent of Christ the King
Details Cathedral House and former convent. Constructed in 1962 to 1967 for the adjacent Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral of the same date to designs by Frederick Gibberd and Partners. MATERIALS:
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Parish Church of St James
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Basingwerk Abbey
Basingwerk Abbey (Welsh: Abaty Dinas Basing) is a Grade I listed ruined abbey near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales. The abbey, which was founded in the 12th century, belonged to the Order of Cistercians.
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Aberconwy Abbey
Aberconwy Abbey was a Cistercian foundation at Conwy, later transferred to Maenan near Llanrwst, and in the 13th century was the most important abbey in the north of Wales. A Cistercian house was foun
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Stanlow Abbey
The Abbey of St. Mary at Stanlaw (or Stanlow as it has been posthumously known since a Victorian cartographical error), was a Cistercian foundation situated on Stanlaw - now Stanlow Point, on the bank
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Prescot Parish Church
Prescot Parish Church, also known as St Mary's Church, is in the town of Prescot, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building,
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Cymer Abbey
Cymer Abbey (Welsh: Abaty Cymer) is a ruined Cistercian abbey near the village of Llanelltyd, just north of Dolgellau, Gwynedd, in north-west Wales, United Kingdom.
