{{Short description|Ruined monastery in South Yorkshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Use British English|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox historic site | name = | native_name = | native_language = | image = MonkBrettonPriory.jpg | caption = Remains of Monk Bretton Priory beyond the cloister | type = [[Priory]] | locmapin = South Yorkshire | coordinates = {{Coord|53.554013|-1.438372|type:landmark_region:GB|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | gbgridref = SE376066 | location = Abbey Lane, [[Lundwood]] | area = [[South Yorkshire]] | built = | architect = | architecture = | governing_body = [[English Heritage]] | owner = [[Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley]] | designation1 = Scheduled monument | designation1_offname = Monk Bretton Priory Cluniac and Benedictine monastery: monastic precinct and two fishponds | designation1_date = 9 October 1981 | designation1_number = {{Listed building England|1010057}} | designation2 = Grade I | designation2_offname = Monk Bretton Priory remains | designation2_date = 6 February 1952 | designation2_number = {{Listed building England|1151178}} | designation3 = | designation3_offname = | designation3_date = | designation3_number = | designation4 = | designation4_offname = | designation4_date = | designation4_number = | designation5 = | designation5_offname = | designation5_date = | designation5_number = }}
'''Monk Bretton Priory''' is a ruined medieval [[priory]] located in the village of [[Lundwood]], and close to [[Monk Bretton]], [[South Yorkshire]], England.
==History== Originally a [[monastery]] under the [[Abbey of Cluny|Cluniac order]], '''Monk Bretton Priory''' is located in the village of [[Lundwood]], in the borough of [[Barnsley]], [[England]]. It was founded in 1154 as the Priory of St. Mary Magdelene of Lund by Adam Fitswane, sited on the Lund, from [[Old Norse]]. In the course of time, the priory took the name of the nearby village of Bretton to be commonly known as [[Monk Bretton]] Priory.
==The Notton bequest==
John de Birthwaite was Prior of Monk Bretton in 1350. In that year Sir [[William de Notton]], a powerful local landowner, who was later [[Lord Chief Justice of Ireland]], and his wife Isabel, conveyed to him lands at [[Fishlake]], Monk Bretton, [[Moseley]] and [[Woolley, West Yorkshire|Woolley]]. The purpose of the grant was to build a [[chantry]] chapel at [[Woolley, West Yorkshire|Woolley]] Church. Notton directed that prayers were to be said for the souls of himself, Isabel, their children, and also King [[Edward III]], Queen [[Philippa of Hainault]] and their children. The date suggests that Notton made the grant as his way of giving thanks for England's deliverance from the first outbreak of the [[Black Death]].
==Dissolution==
The monastery closed on 30 November 1538 during the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries|dissolution]], and the site passed into the ownership of the Blithman family. In 1580 the land was again sold to [[George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury]] who gave the estate to his fourth son Henry on his marriage to Elizabeth Rayner.<ref>[[Edmund Lodge]], ''Illustrations of British History'', vol. 2 (London, 1791), p. 235.</ref> The site is a [[Scheduled Ancient Monument]] and is now in the care of [[English Heritage]].
Excavations concentrating on the church and cloister took place on the site in the 1920s which were published by the [[Yorkshire Archaeological Society]] and other largely unrecorded diggings by the [[Ministry of Works (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Works]] took place during the 1950s. More recently the site has been the focus of a survey and excavation project run by [[Hugh Willmott (archaeologist)|Dr Hugh Willmott]] from the [[University of Sheffield]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/cronweb/docs/week29-indy-2010-07-21/6|title=Barnsley Independent (Week 29)|website=Issuu|language=en|access-date=2020-01-08}}</ref>
==See also== *[[Grade I listed buildings in South Yorkshire]] *[[Listed buildings in Monk Bretton]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
*Walker, John William ''Abstracts of the Chartularies of the Priory of Monkbretton'' [[Cambridge University Press]] reissue 2013
==External links== {{Commons category|Monk Bretton Priory}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110928040658/http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/archaeology/research/dissolution/monk-bretton Recent excavations on the site by The University of Sheffield] *[https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/monk-bretton-priory/ English Heritage website - visitor information] *{{PastScape|mnumber=52396|mname= Monk Bretton Priory}}
{{Monasteries in South Yorkshire |state=expanded}} {{Trans Pennine Trail}}
[[Category:Christian monasteries established in the 1150s]] [[Category:Grade I listed monasteries]] [[Category:Grade I listed churches in South Yorkshire]] [[Category:Monasteries in South Yorkshire]] [[Category:Cluniac monasteries in England]] [[Category:1154 establishments in England]] [[Category:Churches in South Yorkshire]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in Barnsley]] [[Category:Tourist attractions in Barnsley]] [[Category:English Heritage sites in South Yorkshire]] [[Category:Ruins in South Yorkshire]] [[Category:Scheduled monuments in South Yorkshire]] [[Category:1538 disestablishments in England]] [[Category:Grade I listed ruins]]