Abbeys and priories in Wales is a link page for any abbey, priory, friary or other religious house in Wales.

Contents

1 Abbreviations and Key 2 Anglesey 3 Brecknockshire 4 Caernarfonshire 5 Carmarthenshire 6 Ceredigion 7 Denbighshire 8 Flintshire 9 Glamorgan 10 Merionethshire 11 Monmouthshire 12 Montgomeryshire 13 Pembrokeshire 14 Radnorshire 15 See Also

Abbreviations and Key

The sites listed are ruins unless indicated thus:-

* indicates current monastic function

+ 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

Trusteeship denoted as follows:-

• CADW = CADW - Welsh Historic Monuments

Other abbreviations:-

• trns = transferred
• rmv = removed
• c = circa (about)
• ante = before
• post = after

Anglesey

Foundation	Communities/provenance	Alt. Name	Formal Name
Penmon Priory	Augustinian, built on site of earlier monastery
Puffin Island monastery

Brecknockshire

Foundation	Communities/provenance	Alt. Name	Formal Name
Brecon Friary +	Dominican, church later college chapel
Brecon Cathedral Priory +	Benedictine, priory church in use as diocesan cathedral

Caernarfonshire

Foundation	Communities/provenance	Alt. Name	Formal Name
Aberconwy	Cistercian 1186-1537

Carmarthenshire

Foundation	Communities/provenance	Alt. Name	Formal Name
Kidwelly Priory	Benedictine from Sherborne		The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Kidwelly
Whitland Abbey	Cistercian from Clairvaux 1140-1539

Ceredigion

Foundation	Communities/provenance	Alt. Name	Formal Name
Cardigan Priory	Benedictine ante1158-1536, converted into a mansion, opened as Cardigan Memorial Hospital 1922
Llanbadarn Fawr Priory	celtic monastery later Benedictine
St. Dogmaels Abbey	Tironensian later Benedictine
Strata Florida Abbey	Cistercian trns from yr hen fynachlog post1164-1539
Talley Abbey	Premonstratensian
yr hen fynachlog	Cistercian from Whitland 1164, trns to Strata Florida post1164	'The Old Monastery'

Denbighshire

Foundation	Communities/provenance	Alt. Name	Formal Name
Denbigh Friary	Carmelite

Flintshire

Foundation	Communities/provenance	Alt. Name	Formal Name
Basingwerk Abbey	Savignac from Savigny c1131-1147, Cistercian 1147-1536/7 (CADW)
Valle Crucis Abbey	Cistercian 1201-1536/7

Glamorgan

Foundation	Communities/provenance	Alt. Name	Formal Name
Ewenny Priory	Benedictine (CADW)	Ogmore Priory
Penrhys Abbey

Merionethshire

Foundation	Communities/provenance	Alt. Name	Formal Name
Cymer Abbey	Cistercian from Cwmhir 1198/9-1536/7 (CADW)

Monmouthshire

Foundation	Communities/provenance	Alt. Name	Formal Name
Abergaveny Priory ^	Benedictine, church now in parochial use
Chepstow Priory	Benedictine
Llantarnam Abbey	Cistercian from Strata Florida 1179-1536
Llanthony Priory	Augustinian
Tintern Abbey	Savignac 1131-1147, Cistercian 1147-1536
Usk Priory	Benedictine nuns

Montgomeryshire

Foundation	Communities/provenance	Alt. Name	Formal Name
Strata Marcella Abbey	Cistercian from Ystrad Marchell c1172-1536	Ystrad Marchell
Tyfaenor Abbey	Cistercian from Whitland 1143-1176, trns to Cwmhir 1176	Dyvanner Abbey
Ystrad Marchell Abbey	Cistercian from Whitland 1170-1172, trns to Strata Marcella 1172

Pembrokeshire

Foundation	Communities/provenance	Alt. Name	Formal Name
Caldey Island Priory	Benedictine
Caldey Island monastery *	Benedictine 1926-present, without public access
Haverfordwest Priory	Augustinian
Monkton Priory	Benedictine
St. Clears Priory	Cluniac

Radnorshire

Foundation	Communities/provenance	Alt. Name	Formal Name
Cwmhir Abbey	Cistercian from Tyfaenor 1176-1537

See Also

• List of abbeys and priories
• Abbeys and priories in England
• Abbeys and priories in Scotland
• Abbeys and priories in Isle of Man
• Abbeys and priories in Northern Ireland
• Abbeys and priories in the Republic of Ireland
• Dissolution of the Monasteries
• List of castles
• List of museums
• List of historic houses