Abbeys and priories in Wales is a link page for any abbey, priory, friary or other religious house in Wales.
Abbreviations and Key
The sites listed are ruins unless indicated thus:-
| * indicates current monastic function
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+ indicates current non-monastic ecclesiastic function
| ^ indicates current non-ecclesiastic function
| # indicates no identifiable trace of the monastic foundation remains
| ~ indicates exact site of monastic foundation unknown
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Trusteeship denoted as follows:-
- Cadw = Cadw - Welsh Historic Monuments
Other abbreviations:-
- trns = transferred
- rmv = removed
- c = circa (about)
- ante = before
- post = after
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Communities/provenance |
Alt. Name |
Formal Name |
| Penmon Priory
| Augustinian, built on site of earlier monastery
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| Puffin Island monastery
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Alt. Name |
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| Brecon Friary +
| Dominican, church later college chapel
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| Brecon Cathedral Priory +
| Benedictine, priory church in use as diocesan cathedral
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Communities/provenance |
Alt. Name |
Formal Name |
| Aberconwy Abbey , Conwy
| Cistercian 1186-1283, daughter house of Strata Florida; community moved to Maenan; church now in parochial use
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| The Abbey Church of Saint Mary and All Saints
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Communities/provenance |
Alt. Name |
Formal Name |
| Denbigh Friary
| Carmelite
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Communities/provenance |
Alt. Name |
Formal Name |
| Cymer Abbey
| Cistercian from Cwmhir 1198/9-1536/7 (Cadw)
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Alt. Name |
Formal Name |
| Strata Marcella Abbey
| Cistercian from Ystrad Marchell c1172-1536
| Ystrad Marchell
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| Tyfaenor Abbey
| Cistercian from Whitland 1143-1176, trns to Cwmhir 1176
| Dyvanner Abbey
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| Ystrad Marchell Abbey
| Cistercian from Whitland 1170-1172, trns to Strata Marcella 1172
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Alt. Name |
Formal Name |
| Cwmhir Abbey
| Cistercian from Tyfaenor 1176-1537
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