Nun Appleton Priory was a priory near Appleton Roebuck, North Yorkshire, England. It was founded as a nunnery c. 1150, by Eustace de Merch and his wife...

John Preceptory Moxby Priory Newburgh Priory Northallerton Whitefriars Nun Appleton Priory Nun Monkton Priory Nunthorpe Priory Penhill Preceptory Ribston...

"Upon Appleton House" describes Fairfax's Nunappleton estate while also reflecting upon the political and religious concerns of the time. Nun Appleton Priory...

prioress. They were created by the Roman Catholic Church. Priories may be monastic houses of monks or nuns (such as the Benedictines, the Cistercians, or the...

his seat in Yorkshire. His wife died in 1665 and Fairfax died at Nun Appleton Priory in 1671. He was buried at St James' Church, Bilbrough, near York...

pounds a year. The priory's former nuns were not offered pensions and this may be the reason that two of them joined Nun Appleton Priory and Cecily Swale...

Holy Trinity and St Mary. The priory was fairly large, having in 1337 sixteen nuns, who called themselves "the White Nuns of St. Augustine". It also had...

its successor, Amesbury Priory, following the particular structures of its parent Order of Fontevraud, was both a convent of nuns and a corresponding monastery...

few weeks the four were sent to Swine, Handale, Wallingwells and Nun Appleton Priories respectively, although there is some doubt as to whether de Holme...

of the first Christian King of Kent. Currently the priory is home to a community of Benedictine nuns. Five of the most notable English abbeys are the Basilica...