List of monastic houses in West Yorkshire

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Foundation Image Communities and provenance Formal name or dedication and alternative names OnLine References & Location Arthington Priory Arthington Hall, Arthington - geograph.org.uk - 267330.jpg Cluniac nuns
founded 1154-5 by Peter de Ardington;
with regular priests or brethren 1155 to after 1318;
dissolved 1539; granted to Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury 1542/3 [1][2]

53°54′06″N 1°33′43″W / 53.9016976°N 1.561971°W / 53.9016976; -1.561971 (Arthington Priory)

Barwick-in-Elmete Monastery $? Saxon monastery
founded before c.730 by Abbot Thrydwulf(?) (before 636);
?destroyed 9th century;
Saxon remains in church [3]

53°54′06″N 1°33′43″W / 53.9016976°N 1.561971°W / 53.9016976; -1.561971 (Barwick-in-Elmete Monastery (traditional site)) (traditional)

Collingham Monastery Saxon monastery
founded by Eanfled, daughter of King Edwin;
destroyed c.875; identified with Ingetlingum (before 1873 considered to be Gilling) Ingetlingum [4][5]

53°54′31″N 1°24′28″W / 53.9086929°N 1.4077842°W / 53.9086929; -1.4077842 (Collingham (Ingetlingum) Monastery)

Esholt Priory # Cistercian nuns
founded 12th century;
with regular priests or brethren to after 1318;
dissolved 1539;
site now occupied by house named ‘Esholt Hall’ Esseholt Priory [6][7]

53°51′11″N 1°42′53″W / 53.8529221°N 1.7146075°W / 53.8529221; -1.7146075 (Esholt Priory)

Headley Priory Benedictine monks
alien house: dependent on Marmoutier
founded before 1125, benefacted by Ypolitus de Bram, his charter dated 1125;
dissolved 1414;
granted to Holy Trinity, York St Mary [8]

53°51′48″N 1°19′57″W / 53.8633534°N 1.3324195°W / 53.8633534; -1.3324195 (Headley Priory)

Kirklees Priory Kirklees Priory Gatehouse, Clifton - geograph.org.uk - 177762.jpg Cistercian nuns
founded before 1138(?), grant by Reyner (Reynerus) Flandrensis (Flandersis), confirmed by his lord William de Warenne;
dissolved November 1539; granted to John Tasburgh and Nicholas Savill 1544/5 The Blessed Virgin Mary and St James
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Kirkleghes Priory [9][10]

53°41′42″N 1°44′12″W / 53.6950438°N 1.7365909°W / 53.6950438; -1.7365909 (Kirklees Priory)

Kirkstall Abbey KirkstallAbbey.JPG hermit community
(community founded at Barnoldswick 19 May 1147);
Cistercian monks — from Fountains (North Yorkshire) via Barnoldswick (Lancashire)
founded 20 May 1152: land granted to community from Barnoldswick by William of Poictou, at the instance of their founder Henry de Lacy;
some of the hermits joined the new foundation;
dissolved 22 November 1540;
now in ownership of Leeds Corporation,
public access to church exterior and monastic buildings [11][12][13]
[14][15][16]

53°49′15″N 1°36′23″W / 53.8209414°N 1.6062999°W / 53.8209414; -1.6062999 (Kirkstall Abbey)

Newland Preceptory Knights Hospitaller
founded after 1199, manor granted by John;
chapel rebuilt 1519;
dissolved 1540; granted to Francis Jobson and Andrew Dudley 1546/7;
chapel demolished c.1860; possible remains of the preceptory chapel incorporated into 16th/17th century fabric in a barn [17][18][19]
[20][21]

53°41′49″N 1°26′50″W / 53.6970415°N 1.4471376°W / 53.6970415; -1.4471376 (Newland Preceptory)

Nostell Priory, earlier site Augustinian Canons Regular
founded c.1114 by Robert de Lacy;
transferred to new site (see immediately below) before 1120 Nostell Priory # Nostell Priory by Morris (1880).jpg Augustinian Canons Regular
(community founded at earlier site (see immediately above) c.1114);
transferred here before 1120 (possibly not occupied until 1122);
dissolved 1539 (1540); granted to Thomas Leigh 1539/40;
site now occupied by a mansion named ‘Nostell Priory’ The Priory Church of Saint Oswald, Nostell [22][23]

53°39′19″N 1°23′00″W / 53.6553085°N 1.3833815°W / 53.6553085; -1.3833815 (Nostell Priory)

Pontefract Blackfriars # Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of York)
founded 1256 by Edmund de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln (built before 1266 by Simon Pyper);
dissolved 26 November 1538; granted to William Clifford and Michael Wildbore 1544/5 St Richard [24][25]

53°41′23″N 1°18′36″W / 53.6895915°N 1.3098729°W / 53.6895915; -1.3098729 (Pontefract Blackfriars)

Pontefract Greyfriars (?) alleged Franciscan Friars[note 1];
disputed[note 2]; probably mistaken for Dominican Friars Pontefract Priory Cluniac monks
alien house: dependent on La Charité
founded c.1090 by Robert de Lacy;
became denizen: independent from 1393;
dissolved 1539; granted to William, Lord Talbot 1553 The Priory Church of Saint John of Pontefract [26][27]

53°41′52″N 1°18′02″W / 53.6979022°N 1.3006434°W / 53.6979022; -1.3006434 (Pontefract Priory)

Pontefract Whitefriars (?) alleged college of Carmelite Friars[note 3]
founded before 1257 (1258[note 4]) by Edmund Lacy (Earl of Lincoln?)[note 5];
disputed[note 6] Syningthwaite Priory $ Cistercian nuns
founded c.1160 by Bertram Haget;
apparently with brethren from c.1169 (papal bull of Alexander III 1172), until 14th century(?);
dissolved 3 August 1535;
granted to John, Earl of Warwick 1550/1;
remains incorporated into Priory Farmhouse, built on site St Mary
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Sinningthwaite Priory [28][29]

53°55′56″N 1°17′55″W / 53.9322901°N 1.2985821°W / 53.9322901; -1.2985821 (Sinningthwaite Priory)

Temple Newsam Preceptory # Knights Templar
founded before 1181 (possibly initially located at Newbond), granted by William de Villiers;
dissolved 1308–12; [30] Wetherby Preceptory member of Ribstone;
Knights Templar
founded after 1240, apparently forming a single preceptory with Ribstone;
dissolved 1308–12;
Knights Hospitaller camera [31][32]

53°55′36″N 1°23′32″W / 53.9266065°N 1.3923132°W / 53.9266065; -1.3923132 (Wetherby Preceptory(traditional site)) (traditional)

Woodkirk Priory Augustinian Canons Regular
cell, dependent on Nostell;
founded 1138-47 (before 1135) by William de Warenne and others, who granted chapel of St Mary to Nostell;
dissolved 1539 (1540); granted to George Talbot and Robert Savill Widkirk Priory [33]

53°43′17″N 1°35′22″W / 53.7213296°N 1.5895736°W / 53.7213296; -1.5895736 (Woodkirk Priory)