Thicket Priory

Thicket Priory is a religious house in the civil parish of Thorganby, North Yorkshire, England, located about 7 miles (11.3 km) south-east of York. It lies in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough.

Thicket Priory

Monastery information
Full name	Thicket Priory
Order	Discalced Carmelites
Established	1955
Dedicated to	Carmel of the Annunciation
Diocese	Middlesbrough
Site
Location	Thorganby, North Yorkshire
Coordinates	53.88302°N 0.94115°W / 53.88302; -0.94115
Grid reference	SE 69702 43562

Description

A Benedictine priory for nuns stood on the site of Thicket Priory from the 1180s and was dissolved in 1539, its building being demolished in 1850.^[1] There is also evidence of a devotion to ‘Our Lady of Thicket’ dating from this time.^{[citation needed]}

New monastic buildings were erected in the grounds of the former establishment, and these re-founded as a Carmelite monastery in 2009.^[2][3]

The building that was used by the community until 2009 was erected as a country house between 1844 and 1847, and was sold by Lt Col Sir John Dunnington-Jefferson in 1955 to the Carmelite Sisters of Exmouth.^[4] This group of buildings holds three Grade II listed buildings: the former house itself,^[3] its lodge,^[5] and coach house with stables and brewery,^[6]

The building was up for sale in April 2013, with an asking price of £3,000,000. As of January 2014, the estate had been reduced to £2,500,000.^[7] It was converted to a large private house about this time; the nuns moved into a new purpose-built convent in 2009.

Interior and grounds

• 
  Chapel
• 
  Statue

See also

• More House, York.