Basedale Priory / Baysdale

INFORMATION

FontID: 22352BAS
Church/Chapel: Cistercian Priory Church
Church Location: Westerdale
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: The site of the disappeared abbey is located between Battersby (WNW) and Westerdale (ESE), 13 km E of the A172 and Stokesley, 12 km SE of Middlesbrough
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Church Notes: priory church of the Cistercian nunnery founded mid-12thC
No individual entry found for this Sawley in the Domesday survey. The entry for the Cistercian nunnery here in the Victoria County History (York, vol. 3, 1974) notes: "Basedale nunnery was situated about 8 miles from the parish church of Stokesley [...] Joan Fletcher [i.e., penultimate prioress] was alive at the Suppression, [...] when there were, including her, eleven nuns in the house, which is described as 'Prioratus monasterii de Basedale ordinis Sancti Bernardi Cisterciensis.'" The entry for this priory in Historic England [www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=28027] [accessed 19 September 2019] notes: "No evidence of archaeological survival remains of the priory."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.451848, -1.044482
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 27′ 6.65″ N, 1° 2′ 40.13″ W
UTM: 30U 626783 6035557