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Tynemouth Priory and Castle is a historic site located on a promontory at the mouth of the Tyne at Tynemouth. The medieval Benedictine priory was protected by walls, towers, and a gatehouse. [ 1 ] The heraldry of the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside includes three crowns commemorating the three kings who have been buried in the priory.
These monasteries were dissolved by King Henry VIII of England in the dissolution of the monasteries.The list is by no means exhaustive, since over 800 religious houses existed before the Reformation, and virtually every town, of any size, had at least one abbey, priory, convent or friary in it.
The following is a list of the monastic houses in Tyne and Wear, England.. Alien houses are included, as are smaller establishments such as cells and notable monastic granges (particularly those with resident monks), and also camerae of the military orders of monks (Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller).
Hylton Castle 2. Newcastle Castle Keep 3. Ravensworth Castle 4. Tynemouth Castle. There are four castles in Tyne and Wear, a metropolitan county in North East England. One is a gatehouse, one is a keep, one is an enclosure and one is an artillery fort. All four of Tyne and Wear's castles are scheduled monuments.
Benedictine nunneries in England (1 C, 58 P) Pages in category "Benedictine monasteries in England" The following 168 pages are in this category, out of 168 total.
Benedictine monks cell dependent on Durham; founded before 1241-9 (or between 1332 and 1353 by Henry, second Lord Percy of Alnwick, who was granted Warkworth Castle in 1332; or founded, possibly as a chantry, c. 1400 by the first Earl of Northumbria);
Tynemouth Priory & Castle: Castle and Priory: 13–14th century Ruins The moated castle-towers, gatehouse and keep are combined with the ruins of the Benedictine priory where three early kings of Northumbria were buried. Oswin, king of Deira in 651, Osred II, king of Northumbria in 792, and Malcolm III, king of Scotland in 1093.
Tynemouth Pageant is a community organisation in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, devoted to staging an open-air dramatic pageant every three years in the grounds of Tynemouth Castle and Priory, by kind permission of English Heritage who run the historic monastic and defensive site at the mouth of the River Tyne. [68]