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 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 no...