Thicket Priory
Monastery information | |
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Full name | Thicket Priory |
Order | Discalced Carmelites |
Established | 1955 |
Dedicated to | Carmel of the Annunciation |
Diocese | Middlesbrough |
Site | |
Location | Thorganby, North Yorkshire |
Coordinates | 53°52′59″N 0°56′28″W / 53.88302°N 0.94115°W |
Grid reference | SE 69702 43562 |
Thicket Priory is a religious house in the civil parish of Thorganby, North Yorkshire, England, located about 7 miles (11.3 km) south-east of York. It lies in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough.
Description
[edit]A Benedictine priory for nuns stood on the site of Thicket Priory from the 1180s and was dissolved in 1539, its building being demolished in 1850.[1] There is also evidence of a devotion to ‘Our Lady of Thicket’ dating from this time.[citation needed]
New monastic buildings were erected in the grounds of the former establishment, and these re-founded as a Carmelite monastery in 2009.[2][3]
The building that was used by the community until 2009 was erected as a country house between 1844 and 1847, and was sold by Lt Col Sir John Dunnington-Jefferson in 1955 to the Carmelite Sisters of Exmouth.[4] This group of buildings holds three Grade II listed buildings: the former house itself,[3] its lodge,[5] and coach house with stables and brewery,[6]
The building was up for sale in April 2013, with an asking price of £3,000,000. As of January 2014, the estate had been reduced to £2,500,000.[7] It was converted to a large private house about this time; the nuns moved into a new purpose-built convent in 2009.
Interior and grounds
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Chapel
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Statue
See also
[edit]- More House, York.
References
[edit]- ^ Historic England. "Thicket Priory (58095)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 18 November 2011.
- ^ Harris, Richard; "York area nuns build new home at Thorganby", The York Press, 2 January 2009. Retrieved 18 November 2011
- ^ a b Historic England. "Thicket Priory (1296552)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
- ^ "Living in harmony", The Yorkshire Post, 21 August 2008. Retrieved 18 November 2011
- ^ Historic England. "Lodge to Thicket Priory (1148430)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
- ^ Historic England. "Coach house, stables and brewery (1148431)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
- ^ "Thorganby, York, North Yorkshire, YO19 6DE". Savills. 2013. Archived from the original on 8 May 2013. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
External links
[edit]- Media related to Thicket Priory at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Thicket Priory from Carmelites
- "Thorganby", Genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 18 November 2011
- Image of Priory Overlooking Lake
- Carmelite monasteries in England
- Cistercian nunneries in England
- Monasteries in North Yorkshire
- Christian monasteries established in the 1180s
- Edward Blore buildings
- 1180s establishments in England
- 1539 disestablishments in England
- 1955 establishments in England
- Discalced Carmelite Order in the United Kingdom