Considerable work has been expended by academics and historians on the history of the great abbeys and monasteries that covered the English landscape since the Norman Conquest. However, the same cannot be said about the lesser religious houses, and even less so on nunneries.
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However, in recent times some attention has fallen on even the most humble of these priories, and few were as humble as the Benedictine Priory of Thicket in the Ouse and Derwent area of the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Thicket Priory was founded before 1180, possibly as early as 1162, and survived until it was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1539. The story of this priory has been related in Thicket Priory: Foundation to Dissolution, the first of three booklets in a series.
The second booklet in the series, Thicket Priory: Dissolution to Thicket Priory II, relates the history of the site of the priory, together with the lives of its owners, up to and including the building of a capital house in the early seventeenth century, named Thicket Hall, which was later renamed Thicket Priory, built close to the site of the original Thicket Priory, but as a private dwelling, not a religious building.
In the third and last booklet in the series, Thicket Priory: Rebirth and the Return of the Nuns, the story of Thicket continues with the building of Thicket Priory III in 1844, which was designed by the celebrated architect Edward Blore, who worked on the designs of Buckingham Palace and many other famous buildings in England and abroad. The story unfolds through to the eventual sale in 1954 of Thicket Priory III by its private owners to Carmelite nuns who, after an interval of over four centuries, made Thicket Priory III a religious home for nuns once again. The story continues with their move to a more practical Thicket Priory IV, adjacent to Thicket Priory III, which was once again in private hands.
This book combines the text of the three booklets in the series, but in a narrative style, and includes a number of photographs, maps and plans, scans of historical documents, coats of arms and illustrations to give a fuller appreciation of the priory.
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