- Wallingwells Priory
Wallingwells Priory was a house of
Benedictine nuns founded in the1140s by Ralph de Chevrolcourt atWallingwells nearCarlton in Lindrick ,Nottinghamshire .The priory surrendered on
14 December 1539 .A pension of £6 was assigned to the prioress, and the remaining nuns.
At its dissolution, The Priory was valued at £59 and was granted by Queen Elizabeth to Richard Pype and Francis Bowyer; it was later the property of Sir Thomas W. White, a county magistrate.
Prioresses of Wallingwells
* Emma de Stockwell, appointed November 1295 by Archbishop Romayne
* Dionysia, resigned 1325
* Alice de Sheffield, resigned 1353
* Helen de Bolsover, resigned 1402
* Isabel de Durham, 1402
* Joan Hewet, died 1465
* Elizabeth Wilcocks, 1465
* Elizabeth Kirkby, 1504
* Isabel Croft, 1508-11
* Anne Goldsmith, 1516
* Margaret Goldsmith, 1521
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