West Ravendale

Title

West Ravendale

Also Known As

Ravandala, Ravendale, Ravenesdale, Ravensdale, Revendal, Revendale

Dates

Founded 1202; dissolved 1389

Affiliation

Beauport

Medieval Diocese

Lincoln

History

West Ravendale was founded in 1202 by Alan FitzHenry. The priory was dissolved in 1389, and the property passed to the Crown, which later assigned it to the collegiate church of Southwell. Some ruins were still upstanding in the 1870s; today there is little more than rubble.

Heads of Community

Priors

Roger, ca. 1197-1219
Roald, fl. 1235
Nicholas, ca. 1245-ca. 1249
Paul, fl. 1261/2
John de Sola, fl. 1270
Martin, ca. 1273-ca. 1275
Richard, fl. 1280
Robert, fl. 1282
Ralph dictus Galeard, fl. 1280s
william de Housetville, ca. 1288-ca. 1290
Ralph dictus Maleherbe, fl. 1291
Nicholas, ca. 1295-ca. 1300
Sampson, fl. 1201
Michael dictus Moryn, ca. 1303-ca. 1328
Nicholas de Dinanno (or Divanno), fl. 1330
William, fl. 1334
Nicholas de Dinanno (or Divanno), fl. 1344
Oliver Gelyn (or Gleyne), ca. 1349-ca. 1369
Nicholas, fl. 1377
Colin (?) Jahnet, fl. 1377/78
Richard Ludelowe, fl. 1378

Status

Priory

Archival Sources

Kew, The National Archives

C 3/77/45 (16th c.)

C 146/1865 (1303)

E 106/11/4 

E 106/11/11

SC 6/1126/2 

SC 8/11/533 (1330s)

Bibliography

Page, William, ed. “Alien Houses: The Priory of West Ravendale.” In A History of the County of Lincoln, 2:243–44. London, 1906. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lincs/vol2/pp243-244.

Venables, Edmund. “The Alien Priory of Ravendale” 14 (1878): 166–78. https://archive.org/details/reportspapersofa14asso/page/166/mode/2up.

Image Credit

Aerial view of the site of West Ravendale Premonstratensian Priory, 2024. Wikimedia.

Files

Collection

Northern Normandy

Citation

“West Ravendale,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/231.

Geolocation

Item Relations

This Item DependentOn Item: Beauport