© Mapbox · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Boundary data © Historic England (NHLE)
Holystone Priory is a Benedictine priory founded in the twelfth century in Northumberland, situated in the North Tyne valley. The site occupies a secluded location associated with early Christian veneration, and the priory itself became an important religious house during the medieval period. Substantial remains of the priory church and associated monastic buildings survive, including stonework characteristic of Romanesque and later Gothic architecture. The priory was dissolved during the Reformation in the sixteenth century, after which the site gradually fell into ruin, though its architectural fragments and earthworks remain archaeologically significant.
Holystone Priory (site of) is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006517. View the official record →
Holystone Priory is a Benedictine priory founded in the twelfth century in Northumberland, situated in the North Tyne valley. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1006517.
Holystone Priory (site of) is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1006517.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Pattenshiel Knowe Iron Age/Romano-British farmstead (4 km), Cairnfield on Swindon Hill, 800m west of Hepple Whitefield Farm (4 km), Witchy Neuk univallate hillfort and linear boundary 600m west of Hepple Whitefield Farm (4.3 km).
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any address in the UK — drawing on scheduled monument data, Domesday records, Roman heritage, PAS finds and medieval history to reveal the complete story of a landscape.
Research the area around Holystone Priory (site of)