Hornby Priory
  Location within the City of Lancaster district | |
| Monastery information | |
|---|---|
| Order | Premonstratensian |
| Mother house | Croxton Abbey |
| Dedicated to | Wilfrid |
| People | |
| Founder(s) | De Montbegon family |
| Site | |
| Coordinates | 54°06′47″N 2°38′12″W / 54.112956°N 2.636805°WCoordinates: 54°06′47″N 2°38′12″W / 54.112956°N 2.636805°W |
| Grid reference | SD584684 |
Hornby Priory was an English Premonstratensian monastic house in Hornby, Lancashire.[1] Dedicated to St Wilfrid, the priory was a dependent cell of Croxton Abbey in Leicestershire. It was probably founded by Roger de Montbegon of Hornby, otherwise his father Adam or grandfather Roger.[1]
In 1544 and Henry Croft bought the site of Hornby Priory.[2]
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Footnotes[]
- ^ a b Farrer & Brownbill (1908), pp. 160–161
- ^ Haigh (1969), p. 131
Bibliography[]
- Farrer, William; Brownbill, J., eds. (1908), "Houses of Premonstratensian Canons — Priory of Hornby", A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 2, Constable, OCLC 277574296
- Haigh, Christopher (1969), The Last Days of the Lancashire Monasteries and the Pilgrimage of Grace, Manchester University Press, OCLC 107447
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