May c. 672 A.D. Wareham Nunnery, Dorset, UK—Benedictine Nuns?; Founded as Alien House of Lira, Normandy?: Destroyed by Danes, 876; Refounded by Elfleda, 915
May c. 672 A.D. Wareham Nunnery, Dorset,
UK—Benedictine Nuns?; Founded as Alien
House of Lira, Normandy?: Destroyed by
Danes, 876; Refounded by Elfleda, 915;
Dissolved 998; Destroyed Again by Danes, 1015; In Possesion of St.
Wandrille Abbey, 1086; Benedictine Priory Built on Site; Ownership Passed to
Mount grace, Yorkshire, 1398; Granted to
Carthusians at Sheen, Surry, 1414; Dissolved 1536; Granted to Thomas Reve and George Cotton
Wareham Priory
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Wareham Priory
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Wareham Priory was a priory in Dorset, England.
Possibly founded by the Saxons in 672 and dispersed during the Danish raids on Wareham in 876. It was refounded in 915
by Elfleda and probably dissolved in 998. A Benedictine priory founded in the early 12th century on the
same site was suppressed in 1414 and granted to the Carthusians, and in turn dissolved in 1539. The site is now occupied
by The Priory hotel.[1]
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