Hornby Priory
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  Location within the City of Lancaster district | |
| Monastery information | |
|---|---|
| Order | Premonstratensian |
| Mother house | Croxton Abbey |
| Dedicated to | Wilfrid |
| People | |
| Founder | De Montbegon family |
| Site | |
| Coordinates | 54°06′47″N 2°38′12″W / 54.112956°N 2.636805°W |
| Grid reference | SD584684 |
Hornby Priory was an English Premonstratensian monastic house in Hornby, Lancashire.[1] Dedicated to St Wilfrid, the priory was a dependent cell of Croxton Abbey in Leicestershire. It was probably founded by Roger de Montbegon of Hornby, otherwise his father Adam or grandfather Roger.[1]
It was suppressed on 23 February 1536, by Richard Leighton and Thomas Legh, following the Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535.[2]
In 1544 Thomas Stanley, 2nd Baron Monteagle and Henry Croft bought the site of Hornby Priory.[3]
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