Leominster nunnery

The (current) Priory Church building at Leominster

Leominster nunnery was an Anglo-Saxon nunnery at Leominster, Herefordshire, England. Founded in the ninth century, the nunnery is known to have been active in the eleventh century.^[1] The exact location of the nunnery is not known, but it may have been the site later occupied by Leominster Priory, a twelfth-century foundation.

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Monasteries in Herefordshire

Augustinian	Aconbury Priory Aymestrey Priory Beodune Priory Flanesford Priory Limebrook Priory Shobdon Priory Wigmore Priory Wigmore Abbey Wormsley Priory

Benedictine	Belmont Abbey Colwall Priory Dulas Monastery Ewyas Harold Priory Hereford Priory Hereford - St Guthlac's Priory Kilpeck Priory Kinsham Grange Leominster Priory Monkland Priory Ocle Priory

Cistercian	Dore Abbey

Cluniac	Clifford Priory Leominster Priory

Dominican	Hereford Blackfriars

Franciscan	Hereford Greyfriars

Grandmontine	Craswall Priory

Knights Hospitaller	Dinmore Preceptory Garway Preceptory Upleadon Preceptory

Knights Templar	Garway Preceptory Hereford Preceptory Sutton Camera Upleadon Preceptory

Premonstratensian	Holme Lacy

Sisters of St John of Jerusalem	Aconbury Priory

Tironensian	Titley Priory

Independent or Unknown	Acton Beauchamp Monastery Archenfield Monastery Garway Clas Hentland Monastery Leominster Nunnery Leominster Priory Moccas Monastery Much Dewchurch Clas Welsh Bicknor Clas

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