List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England

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These monasteries were dissolved by King Henry VIII of England in the dissolution of the monasteries. The list is by no means exhaustive, since over 800 religious houses existed before the Reformation, and virtually every town, of any size, had at least one abbey, priory, convent or friary in it. (Often many small houses of monks, nuns, canons or friars.)

ImageNameLocationCurrent countyOrderYear dissolvedRef(s)
Abbotsbury AbbeyAbbotsburyDorsetBenedictine1538
Abingdon AbbeyAbingdonOxfordshire
Bardney AbbeyBardneyLincolnshire[1]
Bardsey AbbeyAberdaronGwyneddCanons Regular1537[2]
Barking AbbeyBarkingGreater LondonBenedictine1539[3]
Basingwerk AbbeyHolywellFlintshireCistercian1536
Bath AbbeyBathSomersetBenedictine1539
Battle AbbeyBattleEast Sussex1538
Bayham Old AbbeyLamberhurstKentPremonstratensian1525
Beauvale PrioryHucknallNottinghamshireCarthusian1539
Beaulieu AbbeyBeaulieuHampshireCistercian1538
Belvoir PrioryBelvoirLeicestershireBenedictine1539[4]
Bindon AbbeyWoolDorsetCistercian
Binham PrioryBinhamNorfolkBenedictine
Bisham AbbeyBishamBerkshireAugustinian1538
Blackfriars, DerbyDerbyDerbyshireDominican1539[5]
Blackfriars, LeicesterLeicesterLeicestershire1538[6]
Blackfriars, NewcastleNewcastle upon TyneTyne and Wear1536
Bodmin PrioryBodminCornwallAugustinian1539
Bolton AbbeyBolton AbbeyNorth Yorkshire1540
Bourne AbbeyBourneLincolnshireArrouaisian1536
Boxgrove PrioryBoxgroveWest SussexBenedictine
Boxley AbbeyBoxleyKentCistercian1537
Bradley PrioryBradleyLeicestershireAugustinian1536[7]
Breadsall PrioryBreadsallDerbyshireCanons Regular[8]
Breedon PrioryBreedon on the HillLeicestershire1539[9]
Bridlington PrioryBridlingtonEast Riding of Yorkshire1538
Brinkburn PrioryBrinkburnNorthumberlandAugustinian1536
Brooke PrioryBrookeRutlandCanons Regular1535/6[10]
Bruern AbbeyBruernOxfordshireCistercian1536[11]
Bruton AbbeyBrutonSomersetAugustinian Canons1539[12]
Buckfast AbbeyBuckfastleighDevonCistercian
Buckland AbbeyBuckland Monachorum
Buildwas AbbeyBuildwasShropshire1536
Burnham AbbeyBurnhamBuckinghamshireAugustinian canonesses1539
Byland AbbeyByland with WassNorth YorkshireCistercian1538
Calke PrioryCalkeDerbyshireAugustinian[13]
Canons Ashby PrioryCanons AshbyNorthamptonshireCanons Regular1536
Cardigan PrioryCardiganCeredigionBenedictine1538[14]
Carmarthen FriaryCarmarthenCarmarthenshireFranciscan[15]
Carmarthen PrioryCanons Regular1536[16]
Cartmel PrioryLower AllithwaiteCumbria
Castle Acre PrioryCastle AcreNorfolkCluniac1537
Cerne AbbeyCerne AbbasDorsetBenedictine1539
Charterhouse LondonCity of LondonGreater LondonCarthusian1537
Christchurch PrioryChristchurchDorsetAugustinian1539
Cirencester AbbeyCirencesterGloucestershire
Cleeve AbbeyOld CleeveSomersetCistercian1536
Coggeshall AbbeyCoggeshallEssex1538[17]
Colchester AbbeyColchesterBenedictine1539[18]
Colne PrioryEarls Colne1536[19]
Cranborne PrioryCranborneDorset1540
Crowland AbbeyCrowlandLincolnshire1539
Croxden AbbeyCroxdenStaffordshireCistercian1538
Croxton AbbeyCroxton KerrialLeicestershirePremonstratensian[20]
Dalby and Heather PreceptoryOld DalbyKnights Hospitaller[21]
Dale AbbeyDale AbbeyDerbyshirePremonstratensian[22]
Darley AbbeyDarley AbbeyCanons Regular[23]
Delapré AbbeyNorthamptonNorthamptonshireCluniac Nunnery
Dore AbbeyAbbey DoreHerefordshireCistercian1536
Dudley PrioryDudleyWest MidlandsCluniac1539
Dunstable PrioryDunstableBedfordshireAugustinian1540
Easby AbbeyEasbyNorth YorkshirePremonstratensian1537
Egglestone AbbeyBarnard CastleCounty Durham1540
Ewenny PrioryEwennyVale of GlamorganBenedictine1536
Eye PrioryEyeSuffolk1537[24]
Eynsham AbbeyEynshamOxfordshire1538[25]
Finchale PrioryDurhamCounty Durham1535
Folkestone PrioryFolkestoneKent
Forde AbbeyThorncombeDorsetCistercian1539
Fountains AbbeyLindrick with Studley Royal and FountainsNorth Yorkshire
Furness AbbeyBarrow in FurnessCumbria1537
Garendon AbbeyShepshedLeicestershire1536[26]
Gisborough PrioryGuisboroughNorth YorkshireAugustinian1540
Glastonbury AbbeyGlastonburySomersetBenedictine1539
Grace Dieu PrioryThringstoneLeicestershireAugustine1538[27]
Greyfriars, LeicesterLeicesterFranciscan[28]
Great Malvern PrioryMalvernWorcestershireBenedictine1539
Gresley PrioryChurch GresleyDerbyshireAugustinian1536[29]
Hailes AbbeyStanwayGloucestershireCistercian1539
Halesowen AbbeyHalesowenWest MidlandsPremonstratensian1538
Haltemprice PrioryWillerbyEast Riding of YorkshireAugustinian1536
Haughmond AbbeyUffingtonShropshire1539
Haverholme PrioryEwerby and EvedonLincolnshireCistercian
Hexham AbbeyHexhamNorthumberlandBenedictine1537
Holy Trinity PrioryAldgate, City of LondonGreater LondonAugustinian1532[30]
Horton PrioryHortonDorsetBenedictine1539
Jarrow PrioryJarrowTyne and Wear1536
Jervaulx AbbeyEast WittonNorth YorkshireCistercian1537
Kidwelly PrioryKidwellyCarmarthenshireBenedictine1539[31]
King's Mead PrioryDerbyDerbyshire1536[32]
Kirby Bellars PrioryKirby BellarsLeicestershireCanons Regular[33]
Kirkstall AbbeyLeedsWest YorkshireCistercian1539
Lacock AbbeyLacockWiltshireAugustinian
Lanercost PrioryBurtholmeCumbria1538
Langdon AbbeyDoverKentPremonstratensian1535
Langley PrioryLeicestershireBenedictine1536[34]
Launceston PrioryLaunceston, CornwallCornwallCanons Regular1538
Launde PrioryLeicestershire1539[35]
Leicester AbbeyLeicester1538[36]
Leicester Austin FriaryAustin Friars[37]
Lenton PrioryLenton, NottinghamNottinghamshireCluniac
Leonard Stanley PrioryLeonard StanleyGloucestershireBenedictine[38]
Lewes PrioryLewesEast SussexCluniac1537
Lindisfarne PrioryHoly IslandNorthumberlandBenedictine1536
Llanthony PrioryCrucorneyMonmouthshireCanons Regular1538
Ludlow Austin FriarsLudlowShropshireAustin Friars
Ludlow White FriarsCarmelites
Maenan AbbeyLlanddoged and MaenanConwyCistercian1536[39]
Malmesbury AbbeyMalmesburyWiltshireBenedictine1539
Margam AbbeyMargamNeath Port TalbotCistercian1536
Mattersey PrioryMatterseyNottinghamshireGilbertine1538
Merton PrioryMertonLondonAugustinian
Michelham PrioryArlingtonEast Sussex1537
Milton AbbeyMilton AbbasDorsetBenedictine1539
Monk Bretton PrioryLundwoodSouth YorkshireCluniac1538
Monkwearmouth AbbeySunderlandTyne and WearBenedictine1536
Mount Grace PrioryEast HarlseyNorth YorkshireCarthusian1539
Neath AbbeyDyffryn ClydachNeath Port TalbotCistercian
Netley AbbeyHoundHampshire1536
Newark PrioryRipleySurreyAugustinian1538
Newbo AbbeySedgebrookLincolnshirePremonstratensian1536
Newminster AbbeyMorpethNorthumberlandCistercian1537
Newstead AbbeyNewsteadNottinghamshireAugustinian1539
Nostell PrioryNostellWest Yorkshire1540[40]
Nuneaton PrioryNuneatonWarwickshireBenedictine1539
Owston AbbeyLeicestershireCanons Regular1536[41]
Pontefract PrioryPontefractWest YorkshireCluniac1540[42]
Penmon PrioryLlangoedIsle of AngleseyAugustinian1538
Pershore AbbeyPershoreWorcestershireBenedictine1539
Plympton PrioryPlymptonDevonCanons Regular
Povington PrioryTynehamDorsetBenedictine
Prittlewell PrioryPrittlewellEssexCluniac1536
Quarr AbbeyNr. FishbourneIsle of WightCistercian[43]
Ramsey AbbeyRamseyCambridgeshireBenedictine1539?
Reading AbbeyReadingBerkshireCluniac1538
Repton PrioryReptonDerbyshireAugustinian[44]
Revesby AbbeyRevesbyLincolnshireCistercian
Rievaulx AbbeyRievaulxNorth Yorkshire
Roche AbbeyMaltbySouth Yorkshire
Romsey AbbeyRomseyHampshireBenedictine1539
Rufford AbbeyRuffordNottinghamshireCistercian1536
Rushen AbbeyMalewIsle of Man1540
Sawley AbbeySawleyLancashire1536
Selby AbbeySelbyNorth YorkshireBenedictine1539
Sempringham PrioryPointon and SempringhamLincolnshireGilbertine1538
Shaftesbury AbbeyShaftesburyDorset? Nunnery1539
Shap AbbeyShap RuralCumbriaPremonstratensian1540
Sherborne AbbeySherborneDorsetBenedictine1539
Shrewsbury AbbeyShrewsburyShropshire1540
Sibton AbbeyYoxfordSuffolkCistercian1536
St Albans AbbeySt AlbansHertfordshireBenedictine1539
St Augustine's AbbeyCanterburyKent1538
St Bartholomew's Priory, SmithfieldSmithfield, City of LondonGreater LondonAugustinian1539
St Bees PriorySt BeesCumbriaBenedictine
St Botolph's PrioryColchesterEssexAugustinian1536[45]
St Faith PrioryHorsham St Faith and Newton St FaithNorfolkBenedictine
St Gregory's PrioryCanterburyKentAugustinian1535
St Helen's Priory, BishopsgateBishopsgate, City of LondonGreater LondonBenedictine1538
St. James Priory, DerbyDerbyDerbyshireCluniac1536[46]
St. John the Baptist PrioryAndover, HampshireHampshire1538
St Mary's AbbeyKenilworthWarwickshireAugustinian
St Mary's AbbeyYorkNorth YorkshireBenedictine1539
St Mary's PrioryCoventryWest Midlands (county)
St Osyth's PriorySt OsythEssexAugustinian[47]
St Peter's AbbeyGloucesterGloucestershireBenedictine1540
St Werburgh's AbbeyChesterCheshire1538
Strata Florida AbbeyYstrad FflurCeredigionCistercian1539
Stoneleigh AbbeyStoneleighWarwickshire
Stratford Langthorne AbbeyWest HamGreater London1538[48]
Syon AbbeyHeston and IsleworthBridgettine1539
Talley AbbeyTalleyCarmarthenshirePremonstratensian1536
Tarrant AbbeyTarrant CrawfordDorsetCistercian1539
Tavistock AbbeyTavistockDevonBenedictine
Tewkesbury AbbeyTewkesburyGloucestershire
Thetford PrioryThetfordNorfolkCluniac1540
Thornton AbbeyThornton CurtisLincolnshireAugustinian1539
Tintern AbbeyTinternMonmouthshireCistercian1536
Titchfield AbbeyFarehamHampshirePremonstratensian1537
Tynemouth PrioryTynemouthTyne and WearBenedictine1538
Ulverscroft PrioryUlverscroftLeicestershireCanons Regular1539[49]
Vale Royal AbbeyWhitegate and MartonCheshireCistercian1538
Valle Crucis AbbeyLlantysilioDenbighshire1537
Walsingham PrioryWalsinghamNorfolkCanons Regular1538
Waltham AbbeyWaltham AbbeyEssex1540[50]
Wareham PrioryWarehamDorsetCarthusian1539
Waverley AbbeyFarnhamSurreyCistercian1536
Welbeck AbbeyWelbeckNottinghamshirePremonstratensian1538
Wenlock PrioryMuch WenlockShropshireCluniac1540
Westminster AbbeyWestminsterGreater LondonBenedictine1539
Whalley AbbeyWhalleyLancashireCistercian1537
Whitby AbbeyWhitbyNorth YorkshireBenedictine1540
Whitland AbbeyLlanboidyCarmarthenshireCistercian1539[51]
Woburn AbbeyWoburnBedfordshire1538
Woodspring PrioryKewstokeSomersetAugustinian1536
Worcester PrioryWorcesterWorcestershireBenedictine1540
Yeaveley PreceptoryYeaveleyDerbyshireKnights Hospitaller[52]

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