Conishead Priory is a large Gothic Revival building on the Furness peninsula near Ulverston in Cumbria. The priory's name translates literally as "King's...
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of the Lakes’. In the 14th century Augustinian canons from nearby Conishead Priory built a small chapel on the island to serve the needs of travellers...
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situated at Conishead Priory in Cumbria, England from 1976 until its dissolution in 1991. In 1991 its assets, including Conishead Priory, were transferred...
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and control over Manjushri Institute. Manjushri Institute purchases Conishead Priory, a neglected Victorian mansion in Ulverston, England is purchased for...
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and Buddhism prevailing as the first and second most common groups. Conishead Priory, the first Kadampa Buddhist centre in the west, is home to around 100...
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Armathwaite Nunnery Calder Abbey CARLISLE (see below) Cartmel Priory Chapel-le-Wood Cell Conishead Priory Dacre Abbey (prob. site) Furness Abbey Hawkshead Grange...
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Rinpoche. According to Richard Spanswick, "Since taking up residence at Conishead Priory, Kelsang has been working to produce a complete set of instructions...
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headquartered in the Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre whom purchased Conishead Priory in 1976. Buddhism is Ulverston's second largest religion after Christianity...
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Holker Hall (section Medieval period: Cartmel Priory)
panelling removed from Canon Winder Hall, Flookburgh, a chimneypiece from Conishead Priory, and a pair of Baroque barley-sugar columns. In the Paley and Austin...
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Tashi Tsering. The Manjushri Institute, a large Buddhist college at Conishead Priory in Cumbria, was founded in 1976 under the guidance of Thubten Yeshe...
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List of monastic houses in England (redirect from Abbeys and priories in England)
Monastic houses in England include abbeys, priories and friaries, among other monastic religious houses. The sites are listed by modern (post-1974) county...
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Cardew Lodge Castle Head Cliburn Hall Clifton Hall Cockermouth Castle Conishead Priory Coniston Hall Corby Castle Cowmire Hall Dalemain Dallam Tower Dalton...
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Buddhist Community). The Manjushri Institute, a large Buddhist college at Conishead Priory in Cumbria, was founded under the guidance of the Tibetan Gelugpa monk...
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Bradyll (1689–1748) was an English politician and businessman. Born at Conishead Priory, Lancashire, to merchant John Bradyll and Sarah, the daughter of Miles...
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Georgia Stanway Jubilee Bridge, linking Barrow Island and Walney Island Conishead Priory, near Ulverston Piel island and castle Scenery near Broughton in the...
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to run to Bardsea and beyond, but the rails never got closer than Conishead Priory, about 1 mile (1.6 km) to the north. The line closed in 1917. Bardsea...
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Barrow-in-Furness Power Station Roose Furness Abbey Dalton Lindal Ulverston to Conishead Priory to Lakeside River Leven Cark and Cartmel Wraysholme Halt Kents Bank...
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stripped much of its interior features to use at his main house of Conishead Priory at Ulverston. He then rented the hall out to handloom weavers before...
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Wilson Gale was to become representative of the family of Braddyll of Conishead Priory near Ulverston, and in consequence he added that name to his own in...
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Heritage List for England, retrieved 16 May 2017 Historic England, "Conishead Priory, Ulverston (1270176)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved...
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Sir Jeffry Wyatville (born Wyatt). His two major commissions were Conishead Priory (1821–36), a large Gothic Revival mansion in Lancashire and Wynyard...
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Derbyshire Championships 1885, 1888, 1893–94, 1896, 1901, 1906 Maude Garfit Conishead Priory Open 1901–07 Dorothea Douglass Kent Championships 1901–02, 1904–06...
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were Furness Abbey, Calder Abbey, the nunnery at Seaton Priory, Shap Abbey, Conishead Priory and Calder Abbey). In addition, Scottish (Catholic) influence...
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at Grizedale Hall POW camp. He suffered a stroke and died at nearby Conishead Priory Military Hospital. He was later reburied at Cannock Chase German Military...
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Conishead Priory near Ulverston...
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Burscough Priory Cockerham Priory Cockersand Abbey Heysham Monastery(?) Hornby Priory LANCASTER (see below) Lytham Priory Penwortham Priory Preston Friary...
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for the chapel built here in the 14th century by monks from nearby Conishead Priory to serve the needs of travellers and fishermen on the sands of Morecambe...
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active was the production of souvenir cards for convalescing miners at Conishead Priory, then owned by the Durham Miners Welfare Committee. Demand grew for...
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riots. He was appointed commissioner for the survey of Cartmel Priory and Conishead Priory in 1536: Sir Thomas Wharton wrote approvingly of him to Cromwell...
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Verney House, Warwickshire Constable Burton Hall, North Yorkshire Conishead Priory, Cumbria Conwy Suspension Bridge, Conwy Corpus Christi College, Cambridge...
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