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Brewood Priory (White Ladies)
A photograph showing a round arch in a wall, with a similar arch beyond seen through it.
Romanesque arch at White Ladies Priory
White Ladies Priory is located in Shropshire
White Ladies Priory
Location within Shropshire
Monastery information
Full nameSt Leonard's Priory, Brewood
Other namesConvent of White Nuns
OrderAugustinian
EstablishedMid-12th century
Disestablished1537/8
Dedicated toLeonard of Noblac
DioceseDiocese of Coventry and Lichfield
Controlled churchesMontford, Shropshire
Tibshelf
Bold
People
Founder(s)Unknown
Important associated figures
  • Bishop Roger Northburgh carried out canonical visitations.
  • Alice de Harley, prominent 14th-century prioress.
  • Sir Thomas Giffard, seneschal before dissolution.
  • Margaret Sandford, last prioress.
  • William Whorwood purchased site after dissolution.
Site
LocationNear Brewood
Coordinates52°39′57″N 2°15′30″W / 52.6657°N 2.2584°W / 52.6657; -2.2584
Visible remainsSubstantial remains of priory church.
Public accessYes
Other informationAccessible all year at all reasonable times. A short walk from a minor road.

White Ladies Priory (often Whiteladies Priory), once the Priory of St Leonard at Brewood,[1] was an English priory of Augustinian canonesses, now in ruins, in Shropshire, in the parish of Boscobel, some eight miles (13 km) northwest of Wolverhampton, near Junction 3 of the M54 motorway. Dissolved in 1536, it became famous for its role in the escape of Charles II of England after the Battle of Worcester in 1651. The name 'White Ladies' refers to the canonesses who lived there and who wore white religious habits.

  1. ^ Historic England. "White Ladies Priory (75115)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 7 March 2011.

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