{{Short description|Former religious house in Yorkshire, England}} {{Use British English|date=September 2022}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} '''Syningthwaite Priory''' was a priory in Bilton-in-Ainsty in North Yorkshire, England, the refectory of which has been converted into a farmhouse.
Syningthwaite is the site of the Cistercian convent of St Mary, founded {{circa|1150–1160}} by Bertram Haget and suppressed in 1535,<ref>{{cite web |title=Genuki: BILTON: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1890, Yorkshire (Ainsty) |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ARY/Bilton/Bilton90 |website=www.genuki.org.uk |access-date=15 September 2022}}</ref> having been heavily in debt in the early 16th century. At the Dissolution the priory housed nine nuns, the prioress, eight servants and other labourers.<ref name="NHLE 1150361">{{NHLE|desc=Syningthwaite Priory Farmhouse, Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton |num= 1150361|grade=I|access-date=15 September 2022 }}</ref> The priory site is enclosed by a moat and includes a Chapel Garth.<ref>{{PastScape |num=54709 |desc=Sinningthwaite [sic] Priory |access-date=15 September 2022}}</ref>
The refectory range of the priory survives as the rear range of a farmhouse. The rest of the building is post-Mediaeval, and the front range dates from the early 19th century. It is built of limestone with some brick, and has a roof of pantile at the rear and grey slate on the front range. There are two storeys, a front range of three bays and a three-bay wing at the rear. The front range has a central doorway with a fanlight, and sash windows with splayed voussoirs. In the rear wing is a round-arched doorway with a chamfered surround, colonettes with weathered capitals, leaf motifs in the moulded spandrels, and a hood mould with carved stops. The windows include a three-light mullioned window with Tudor arched lights and a hood mould, sash windows, a horizontally-sliding sash, and a fire window.<ref name="NHLE 1150361"/><ref>{{cite book| last =Leach| first =Peter| last2 = Pevsner | first2 = Nikolaus | author2-link = Nikolaus Pevsner | series= The Buildings of England| title =Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North| publisher =Yale University Press | year =2009 | location =New Haven and London |isbn =978-0-300-12665-5}}</ref>
==See also== *Grade I listed buildings in North Yorkshire *Listed buildings in Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton
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Category:Monasteries in North Yorkshire Category:1160s establishments in England Category:1535 disestablishments in England Category:Christian monasteries established in the 1160s Category:Cistercian nunneries in England Category:Grade I listed buildings in North Yorkshire
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