Historic England research records

Historic England Research Records

Cannington Priory
Hob Uid: 190988
Location : Somerset Sedgemoor Cannington
Grid Ref : ST2578439562
Summary : Elizabethan mansion on site of or incorporating the remains of a Benedictine Nunnery (1138-1536). Part of the precinct wall survives.
More information : [ST 2578 3956] Somerset Farm Institute on site of BENEDICTINE PRIORY [G.T.] [ST 2585 3956] Burial Ground [G.T.] (1) Cannington Priory, now Somerset Farm Institute, is a large Elizabethan mansion said to be the site of a Benedictine Nunnery founded 1138 and suppressed 1536 (4). Leland (a) refers to it as 'hard adnexid to the east of the parish church'. The buildings, mainly 16th-17th cent., are arranged around an irregular courtyard which cannot, therefore, represent the cloisters of a Nunnery. There is an early 18th cent. octagonal chapel now used as a lecture room. (2). (2-4) The present buildings are worthy of note, although no monastic remains are immediately apparent from the outside. (See G.Ps. AO/64/270/4 & 5). The Burial Ground contains early 19th century graves from the time when the house was re-occupied by Benedictine nuns (d). (5) Prior to development for a health centre in Mill Lane, Cannington, at ST 256395, a piece of walling was examined which contains a late Medieval gateway. It seems likely that the wall represents the boundary of part of the Medieval precinct of the Priory. (6)

Sources :

Source Number : 1
Source :
Source details : OS 25" 1930.
Page(s) :
Figs. :
Plates :
Vol(s) :

Source Number : 2
Source :
Source details : Somerset South and West, 1958
Page(s) : 113-4
Figs. :
Plates :
Vol(s) :

Source Number : 3
Source :
Source details :
Page(s) : 109
Figs. :
Plates :
Vol(s) :

Source Number : 3a
Source :
Source details : Leland, Itin. II, 98.
Page(s) :
Figs. :
Plates :
Vol(s) :

Source Number : 4
Source :
Source details :
Page(s) : 211
Figs. :
Plates :
Vol(s) :

Source Number : 5
Source :
Source details : F1 GHP 08-OCT-64
Page(s) :
Figs. :
Plates :
Vol(s) :

Source Number : 5d
Source :
Source details : Rev. A.R. Moss, Cannington Vicarage.
Page(s) :
Figs. :
Plates :
Vol(s) :

Source Number : 6
Source :
Source details : M Aston
Page(s) : 114
Figs. :
Plates :
Vol(s) : 121, 1977

Source Number : 7
Source :
Source details :
Page(s) : 257
Figs. :
Plates :
Vol(s) :

Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date :
Monument End Date : 1536
Monument Start Date : 1138
Monument Type : Benedictine Nunnery, Priory, Precinct Wall
Evidence : Documentary Evidence, Structure

Components and Objects:

Related Records from other datasets:

External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : ST 23 NE 19
External Cross Reference Notes :

Related Warden Records :

Associated Monuments :
Relationship type :

Related Activities :

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1964-10-08
End Date : 1964-10-08

Associated Activities :
Activity type : EVALUATION
Start Date : 2012-01-01
End Date : 2012-12-31

Historic England Research Records

Cannington Priory