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Nun Appleton Priory, 1877. Nun Appleton Priory was a priory near Appleton Roebuck, North Yorkshire, England. It was founded as a nunnery c. 1150, by Eustace de Merch and his wife. It was dissolved by 1539, when the nuns were receiving pensions.
Jul 22, 2019 · Nun Appleton Hall is a Georgian stately home surrounded by beautiful parkland - but only a few people have set eyes on it in the last 30 years. The house is derelict, empty and many would...
- Grace Newton
Jun 2, 2024 · Archbishop Melton held a primary visitation of Nun Appleton on 7 April 1318, (fn. 20) on which occasion he issued a long list of injunctions, many of which are exhortations and commands of a general character, or similar to those of his predecessors.
Dec 5, 2016 · Learn about the Cistercian nuns of Nun Appleton Priory in Yorkshire, who surrendered to Cromwell in 1539. Find out who they were, what happened to them, and their connection to a Marvell poem and a Fairfax family.
Oct 24, 2020 · Not many people have had a chance to catch a glimpse of Nun Appleton Priory over the past decades. The stately home near York which once boasted exquisitely decorated rooms and even served as an inspiration for a famous poem is now a skeleton of its former self.
- Victoria Scheer
Nun Appleton Priory was a Cistercian religious house, until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. At that point, or shortly afterwards, it was acquired by the Fairfax family. One of the themes of the poem is a Protestant-slanted account of the circumstances under which Isabel Thwaites left the nunnery.
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Nun Appleton Hall is a 17th-century brick building with a history of Cistercian nunnery and military family. The park and pleasure grounds cover 172 hectares and include a serpentine lake, woodland and topiary.
