Old Cumbria Gazetteer - monastery, Carlisle


	monastery, Carlisle
locality:-	Carlisle
civil parish:-	Carlisle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	religious house
locality type:-	monastery
locality type:-	priory
1Km square:-	NY3955 (?)
10Km square:-	NY35
references:-	Farington 1816

evidence:-	old text:- Farington 1816
source data:-	Descriptive text:- ... In the reign of William Rufus, Walter, a Norman priest, began a monastery at Carlisle: it was completed and endowed in 1101 by King Henry I. who placed in it regular canons of the order of St. Augustine, and made his confessor, Adeluph or Athelwald, the first prior. ... The priory was resigned into the hands of King Henry VIII. on the 9th of January 1540, by Launcelot Salkeld, the last prior, who, upon the establishment of the present chapter, in 1542, was appointed dean. The greater part of the land and revenues of the priory, which had been valued at 418l. 3s. 43/4d. clear yearly income, was granted to the dean and chapter, ... item:- Armitt Library : A6666.25 Image © see bottom of page

person:-	: Augustinian Order
	black canons

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