Monastery information | |
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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°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]
It was suppressed on 23 February 1536, by Richard Leighton and Thomas Legh, following the Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535. [2]
In 1544 Thomas Stanley, 2nd Baron Monteagle and Henry Croft bought the site of Hornby Priory. [3]