Wellow Abbey

Wellow Abbey was an abbey in Lincolnshire, England. It was founded about 1110 by Henry I of England,^[1] as a house of Austin canons. The date of foundation is not known precisely. It was also known as Grimsby Abbey.^[2]

The last abbot was Robert Whitgift, uncle of John Whitgift. The Abbey was dissolved in 1538, and he was given a pension.^[3]

The abbey was built on a hill, and its grounds covered around ten acres, surrounded by a wall and ditch.^[4] Buildings included a grange for the abbot and a kitchen, which was built above a spring that also supplied water to a mill at the base of the hill.^[4] At dissolution, its possessions included more than seven hundred acres of land.^[4]

References

↑ Lewis, Samuel (1848). "Grewell - Grimston, North". A Topographical Dictionary of England. British History Online. pp. 340–343. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
↑ Page, William (1906). "Houses of Austin canons: The abbey of Grimsby or Wellow". A History of the County of Lincoln. Victoria County History 2 (British History Online). pp. 161–163. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
↑ Powel Mills Dawley, John Whitgift and the English Reformation (1955), p. 25.
1 2 3 George Shaw (21 October 2008). Old Grimsby. Lulu.com. pp. 45–46. ISBN 978-1-4092-3671-9.

Monasteries in Lincolnshire

Augustinian	Boston Austin Friars Bourne Abbey Elsham Priory Grimsby Abbey Grimsby Nunnery Grimsby Austin Friars Hough Priory Hirst Priory Kyme Priory Lincoln Austin Friars Markby Priory Newstead Priory Nocton Priory Stamford Austin Friars Thornholme Priory Thornton Abbey Thwaite Priory Torksey Priory Wilsford Priory

Benedictine	Alkborough Priory Bardney Abbey Barrow Monastery Bonby Priory Boston Priory Burwell Priory Covenham Priory Croyland Abbey Deeping St James Priory Freiston Priory Haugham Priory Henes Cell Humberston Abbey Ikanho monastery Lincoln - St. Mary Magdalen Priory Minting Priory North Hykeham Priory Partney Cell Repingas Monastery Sandtoft Priory Skendleby Priory Spalding Priory Stainfield Priory Stamford All Saints' College Stamford Cell in Burghley Park Stamford - St Leonard's Priory Stixwould Priory Stow Abbey Throckenholt Priory Wilsford Priory Winghale Priory

Brothers of Penitence	Lincoln Friars of the Sack Stamford Friars of the Sack

Carmelite	Boston Whitefriars Lincoln Whitefriars Stamford Whitefriars

Carthusian	Axholme Priory Haugham Priory

Cistercian	Bytham Abbey Cammeringham Priory Fosse Priory Gokewell Priory Great Limber Priory, Limber Magna Greenfield Priory Haverholme Priory Kirkstead Abbey Knaith Priory Legbourne Priory Long Bennington Priory Louth Park Abbey Nuncotham Priory Revesby Abbey Stixwould Priory Swineshead Abbey Vaudey Abbey

Crutched Friars	Whaplode Friary

Dominican	Boston Blackfriars Lincoln Blackfriars Stamford Blackfriars

Franciscan	Boston Greyfriars Grantham Greyfriars Grimsby Greyfriars Lincoln Greyfriars Stamford Greyfriars

Gilbertine	Alvingham Priory Bridge End Priory Bullington Priory Catley Priory Haverholme Priory Lincoln - St. Catherine's Priory Newstead-on-Ancholme Priory North Ormsby Priory Sempringham Priory Sixhills Priory Tunstall Priory

Knights Hospitaller	Aslackby Preceptory Bottesford Preceptory Eagle Preceptory Great Limber Preceptory, Limber Magna Maltby Preceptory Skirbeck Commandery Temple Bruer Preceptory Willoughton Preceptory Witham Preceptory

Knights Templar	Aslackby Preceptory Bottesford Preceptory Eagle Preceptory Horkstow Camera Lincoln Commandery Temple Bruer Preceptory Willoughton Preceptory Witham Preceptory

Premonstratensian	Barlings Abbey Broadholme Priory Cammeringham Priory Hagnaby Abbey Newbo Abbey Newsham Abbey Orford Priory Stixwould Priory Tupholme Abbey West Ravendale Priory

Savigniac	Revesby Abbey Swineshead Abbey

Tironensian	Humberston Abbey

Independent	Partney Monastery Stamford Monastery St Æthelreda's nunnery, Stow Green Threekingham Nunnery

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