Wallingwells Priory was a small house of

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nuns founded in the 1140s by Ralph de Chevrolcourt at

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on land he had donated near Carlton in Lindrick,

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. The priory was surrendered to the Crown as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries on 14 December 1539, after which a pension of £6 was assigned to Margaret Goldsmith the last prioress, and of 53s. 4d. each to Anne Roden the sub-prioress and Elizabeth Kirkby and of 40s. each to the six other nuns. At its dissolution, The Priory was valued at £59 (equivalent to £ in ),and was granted by Queen Elizabeth I to Richard Pype and Francis Bowyer; it was later the property of the Taylor and White families. A country house known as Wallingwells Hall was built on the site using materials retrieved from the priory.

Prioresses of Wallingwells

* Margery Dourant (temp Richard I) * 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

References

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