Nun Appleton Priory

No individual entry found for Nun Appleton in the Domesday survey, but it has an entry for Appletone (Roebuck) where the priory was located; it does not mention cleric or church in it. The entry for this Cistercian priory in the Victoria County History (York, vol. 3, 1974) notes: "About 1150 Eustace de Merch [...] and Adeliz de St. Quintin, his wife, with consent of their heirs Robert and William, granted to God, St. Mary, and St. John the Evangelist, and to the prior [...] and nuns abiding in the territory of Appleton, near the River Wharfe, the place which Juliana held, and other land subsequently. The foundation charter states that Adeliz de St. Quintin and her son and heir Robert de St Quintin re-granted this to Brother Richard, and the nuns serving God there, for the souls of Robert, the son of Fulk, and his parents. [...] This grant was confirmed by St. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, between 1162 and 1171. [...] [in 1346] The infirmary was too limited in capacity, and the archbishop directed that certain chambers on the west part of the church, beyond the locutorium, or parlour, in which certain of the nuns, contrary to the honesty of religion, were abiding, were to be pulled down within a year, so that the infirmary might be extended. The doors of the church, cloister, and locutorium for long time past had been negligently guarded; this was to be corrected, and no secular woman of any description was to sleep or pass the night in the dormitory." The priory was Dissolved in 1539.