Thicket Priory

Thicket Priory

Monastery information
Full name	Thicket Priory
Order	Discalced Carmelites
Established	1955
Dedicated to	Carmel of the Annunciation
Diocese	Middlesbrough
Site
Location	Thorganby, North Yorkshire
Coordinates	53.88302°N 0.94115°W / 53.88302; -0.94115
Grid reference	SE 69702 43562

Thicket Priory is a religious house in the civil parish of Thorganby, North Yorkshire, England, located about 7 miles (11.3 km) south-east of York. It lies in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough.

Description

A Benedictine priory for nuns stood on the site of Thicket Priory from the 1180s and was dissolved in 1539, its building being demolished in 1850.^[1] There is also evidence of a devotion to ‘Our Lady of Thicket’ dating from this time.^{[citation needed]}

New monastic buildings were erected in the grounds of the former establishment, and these re-founded as a Carmelite monastery in 2009.^[2][3]

The building that was used by the community until 2009 was erected as a country house between 1844 and 1847, and was sold by Lt Col Sir John Dunnington-Jefferson in 1955 to the Carmelite Sisters of Exmouth.^[4] This group of buildings holds three Grade II listed buildings: the former house itself,^[3] its lodge,^[5] and coach house with stables and brewery,^[6]

The building was up for sale in April 2013, with an asking price of £3,000,000. As of January 2014, the estate had been reduced to £2,500,000.^[7] It was converted to a large private house about this time; the nuns moved into a new purpose-built convent in 2009.

Interior and grounds

• 
  Chapel
• 
  Statue

See also

• More House, York.

References

1. Historic England. "Thicket Priory (58095)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 18 November 2011.
2. Harris, Richard; "York area nuns build new home at Thorganby", The York Press, 2 January 2009. Retrieved 18 November 2011
3. Historic England. "Thicket Priory (1296552)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
4. "Living in harmony", The Yorkshire Post, 21 August 2008. Retrieved 18 November 2011
5. Historic England. "Lodge to Thicket Priory (1148430)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
6. Historic England. "Coach house, stables and brewery (1148431)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
7. "Thorganby, York, North Yorkshire, YO19 6DE". Savills. 2013. Archived from the original on 8 May 2013. Retrieved 10 May 2021.

External links

• Media related to Thicket Priory at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website
• Thicket Priory from Carmelites
• "Thorganby", Genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 18 November 2011
• Image of Priory Overlooking Lake