Wallingwells Priory was a house of Benedictine

Benedictine

Benedictine refers to the spirituality and consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century for the cenobitic communities he founded in central Italy. The most notable of these is Monte Cassino, the first monastery founded by Benedict...

 nuns founded in the 1140s by Ralph de Chevrolcourt at Wallingwells

Wallingwells

Wallingwells is a small civil parish and hamlet in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England, with a population at the 2001 census of 22...

 near Carlton in Lindrick

Carlton in Lindrick

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, Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire

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The priory surrendered on 14 December 1539.

A pension of £6 was assigned to the prioress, and the remaining nuns.

At its dissolution, The Priory was valued at £59 (£ as of ),and was granted by Queen Elizabeth to Richard Pype and Francis Bowyer; it was later the property of Sir Thomas W. White, a county magistrate.

Prioresses of Wallingwells

• Emma de Stockwell, appointed November 1295 by Archbishop Romayne
• Dionysia, resigned 1325
• Alice de Sheffield, resigned 1353
• Helen de Bolsover, resigned 1402
• Isabel de Durham, 1402
• Joan Hewet, died 1465
• Elizabeth Wilcocks, 1465
• Elizabeth Kirkby, 1504
• Isabel Croft, 1508-11
• Anne Goldsmith, 1516
• Margaret Goldsmith, 1521