Fineshade Priory

Site of Fineshade Abbey from the Jurassic Way

Fineshade Priory was a priory of Augustinian Canons Regular in Northamptonshire, England. The remains of the site are about 5 miles (8.0 km) north-east of Corby along the A43 road.

It was founded before 1208 by Richard Engayne (Engain), Lord of Blatherwycke on the site of a small castle and dissolved in 1536.

The buildings were granted to Lord Russell 1541/2. Sir Robert Kirkham bought it in 1545 and converted the west range into a country residence, which was demolished along with the remains of the priory in 1749.

A house was subsequently built on the site but demolished in 1956. The stable block remains, converted to a residence.

Fineshade Wood is part of Rockingham Forest. The civil parish has merged with Duddington.

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Monasteries in Northamptonshire

Augustinian	Canons Ashby Priory Chacombe Priory Fineshade Priory Grafton Regis Priory Northampton Abbey Northampton Austin Friars Rothwell Priory

Benedictine	Brixworth Abbey Deene Priory Everdon Priory Weedon Monastery Weedon Beck Priory Weedon Pinkney Priory Wothorpe Priory

Carmelite	Northampton Whitefriars

Cistercian	Catesby Priory Pipewell Abbey Sewardsley Priory

Cluniac	Daventry Priory Delapré Abbey Fotheringhay Nunnery Northampton — St Andrew's Priory Preston Capes Priory

Dominican	Northampton Blackfriars

Franciscan	Northampton Greyfriars Northampton Nunnery

Friars of the Sack	Northampton Friars of the Sack

Knights Hospitaller	Dingley Preceptory Guilsborough Preceptory

Premonstratensian	Kalendar Priory Sulby Abbey

Independent or Unknown	Castor Priory Wermundsey Monastery

Coordinates: 52°34′08″N 0°33′54″W / 52.56883°N 0.56513°W / 52.56883; -0.56513

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Fineshade Priory

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