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...
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John Preceptory Moxby Priory Newburgh Priory Northallerton Whitefriars Nun Appleton Priory Nun Monkton Priory Nunthorpe Priory Penhill Preceptory Ribston...
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"Upon Appleton House" describes Fairfax's Nunappleton estate while also reflecting upon the political and religious concerns of the time. Nun Appleton Priory...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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its successor, Amesbury Priory, following the particular structures of its parent Order of Fontevraud, was both a convent of nuns and a corresponding monastery...
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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...
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Benedictines (redirect from Benedictine nun)
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...
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