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Abbeys and Religious Buildings in Suffolk

We are attempting to list all places where photographers can photograph Abbeys and Religious buildings within the UK, by county. This is the start of a list that will both grow over time and hopefully we will be able to add more columns or information. This same information is also available in alphabetical order.

Where the names in the first column is hyperlinked this links to a Location page with more information on this site and over time more of these will be added, we will be delighted if some of you would like to also produce location pages.

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Wiki=Wikipedia  EH=English Heritage  NT=National Trust  PEH=Pastscape  F.=Founded  Dis.=Dissolved

Condition: [A] First rate example; [B] Major Remains; [C] Identifiable Remains; [D] Modest Remains;
[E] Little Surviving

Foundation

Alt. Name * [Formal Name / dedication]

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Communities & history [condition]

Alnesbourne Priory

[The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Alnesbourne]

 

PEH

Augustinian Canons Regular 13th-century

Battisford Preceptory

 

 

 

Knights Hospitaller preceptory/hospital

Blackfriars, Sudbury

 

 

 

Dominican Friars

Blakenham Priory

 

 

 

 

Blythburgh Priory

[The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Blythburgh]

 

PEH

Augustinian Canons Regular from St Osyth's

Bruisyard Abbey

 

 

PEH

 

Bungay Priory

[The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Bungay]

TM3389

PEH

Benedictine nuns 1160 [C]

Bury St. Edmunds Abbey

[The Abbey Church of Saint Edmund, Bury Saint Edmunds]

TL8564

Wiki * EH

633 * Benedictine monks 1020-1539 * remains now within a public park * diocesan cathedral in precinct [D]

Butley Priory

Butleigh Priory * [The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Butley]

TM3651

PEH

Augustinian Canons Regular 1171 [D]

Campsey Priory

[Augustinian Canons Regular Priory of Saint Mary, Campsey Ash]

TM3356

PEH

Austin Canonesses with attached college for chaplains. F. 1195 Dis. 1536 [E]

Chipley Priory

[The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Chipley]

 

PEH

Augustinian Canons Regular ante1291

Clare Priory [monastic]

[The Priory Church of Our Lady, Saint Peter and Saint Paul and Saint Augustine, Clare]

TL7645

Wiki

Augustinian Friars 1248/9 & 1953-present [D]

Creeting St. Mary Priory

 

 

 

 

Creeting St. Olave Priory

 

 

 

 

Dodnash Priory [monastic]

[The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Dodnash]

 

PEH

Augustinian Canons Regular ante1300

Dunwich Greyfriars

 

TM4770

PEH

Franciscan friary f.1277 and dis. 1538. Surviving remains are precinct wall with two gatehouses and south range of cloister.

East Bergholt Abbey [monastic]

[The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, East Bergholt]

 

 

nuns

Edwardstone Priory

 

 

 

 

Eye Priory

 

TM1473

PEH

alien house c.1080 * Benedictine monks c.1385 [D]

Felixstowe Priory

 

 

 

 

Flixton Priory

[The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Katharine]

TM5195

PEH

Augustinian nuns 1258 [E]

Great Bricett Priory

Bricett Priory * [The Priory Church of Saint Leonard, Bricett]

TM0350

 

Augustinian Canons Regular alien priory of Abbey of St Leonard, nr Limoges c.1110 [C]

Greyfriars, Dunwich

 

 

 

Franciscan Friars

Hadleigh Almshouse

 

TM0242

PEH

Built 1497, now greatly restored [D]

Hoxne Priory

 

 

PEH

 

Ipswich Priory

Christchurch * [The Priory Church of the Holy Trinity, Ipswich]

TM1744

 

Augustinian Canons Regular [E]

Ixworth Priory

[The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Ixworth]

 

 

Augustinian Canons Regular c.1100 * destroyed during civil warfare

Ixworth Priory

'Ixworth Abbey' * [The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Ixworth]

 

 

Augustinian Canons Regular c.1170, on a different site from the original foundation (see immediately above)

Kersey Priory

[The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Anthony, Kersey]

TM0044

PEH

Augustinian Canons Regular ante1219 [D]

Lavenham Priory [Reused]

 

 

 

Benedictine monks * converted into mansion latterly open to public * now hotel accommodation

Leiston Abbey

 

TM4464

Wiki * PEH * EH

Premonstratensian Canons from Welbeck 1180/1183, [E]

Letheringham Priory

[The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Letheringham]

TM2757

PEH

Augustinian Canons Regular c.1194 [C]

Little Welnetham

 

 

 

Trinitarian

Mendham Priory

 

TM2783

PEH

Cluniac Monks in later 14th Century. [E]

Redlingfield Priory

 

TM1871

PEH

Benedictine nuns c.1120 [C]

Rumburgh Priory

The Priory Church of Saint Michael and Saint Felix, Rumburgh

TM3581

 

Benedictine monks, cell of St. Benet's Abbey, Ludham) 1064-12thC * trns to St Mary's Abbey, York [D]

Sibton Abbey

[The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Sibton]

TM3770

PEH

Cistercian monks from Warden Abbey 1150-1536 [E]

Snape Priory

 

 

 

Benedictine monks 11thC, cell of St John's Abbey, Colchester, later under Butley Abbey

St Olaves Priory, Herringfleet

Herringfleet Priory * [The Priory Church of Saint Olave, Heringfleet]

TM4797

EH * PEH

Augustinian Canons Regular c.1216 [D]

St Peter & Paul Priory, Ipswich

[The Priory Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Ipswich]

 

 

Augustinian Canons Regular c.1190

Sudbury Augustinian Priory [No remains]

 

 

 

Augustinian Canons Regular

Sudbury Benedictine Priory [No remains]

 

TL8741

 

Benedictine monks [E]

Wangford Priory

 

TM4679

PEH

Cluniac monks ante1160, cell of Thetford Priory [D]

Woodbridge Priory

 

 

PEH

 

 


See Also:

Abbey and Religious Buildings Section for all articles, lists and location guides on Abbey's, Cathedrals, Churches, Holy Wells etc.

 


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