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Carisbrooke Priory was analien priory, a dependency ofLyre Abbey inNormandy. The priory was situated on rising ground on the outskirts ofCarisbrooke close toNewport on theIsle of Wight. This priory was dissolved in around 1415.
A second Carisbrooke Priory was created in 1993, when St. Dominic's Priory, which had been established as a community of Dominican nuns in 1865–66 (on a different site from the earlier priory) was so renamed.
In 1046,William FitzOsbern, kinsman ofWilliam the Conqueror, foundedLyre Abbey in Normandy. When William became King of England, FitzOsbern was given charge of the Isle of Wight, and took up residence inCarisbrooke Castle. In the wake of theNorman conquest, FitzObern became one of the great magnates of earlyNorman England, acquiring extensive lands there, from which he made generous donations to Lyre Abbey.[1] The church of Carisbrooke, and other property, had been granted to the abbey of Lyre, probably by William Fitz Osberne, Earl of Hereford, around 1067.[2] By the mid-12th century, Lyre Abbey had adopted the Benedictine rule.
Around 1100,Henry I of England madeRichard de Redvers, also from Normandy,Lord of the Isle of Wight.[3] His son,Baldwin de Redvers, Earl of Devon and Lord of the Isle of Wight, gave to the Abbey of Lyre all the churches, tithes, lands, rents and benefits that he held throughout the island.Henry II's confirmation charter to Lyre Abbey specifies its possessions throughout England. The priory of Carisbrooke was founded in 1156 by Baldwin de Redvers, to collect the dues in the Isle of Wight of the parent house in Normandy. The monks of Carisbrooke served the chapels of Newport and Northwood[2]
In 1295, when KingEdward I of England was at war with France, Carisbrooke was among the alien priories impounded by the Crown. This happened again during the reign ofEdward III and the priory, being in the king's hands, was granted byRichard II to theCarthusianMount Grace Priory in Yorkshire. It was restored to Prior Thomas Val Oseul byHenry IV on condition of the "apport" or customary tribute to Lyre being paid instead to the Crown, and future appointments of monks being filled by Englishmen, but was seized again byHenry V and bestowed on his newcharterhouse at Sheen, and the monks dispersed.
Elizabeth Burrell, daughter of Peter Burrell, 1stLord Gwydwyr, and Lady Priscilla Bertie,suo jureBaroness Willoughby de Eresby, was married toJohn FitzGibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare,Lord Lieutenant of the City of Limerick. They lived apart, Lady Clare taking up residence atRyde on the Isle of Wight. In 1865 she invited the nuns of theDominican Order at Stonyhurst to move to the Isle of Wight. She provided £12,000 towards the cost of a new priory, St. Dominic's Priory, at Carisbrooke on a different site to the pre-Reformation priory.[4]
In the mid-17th century,Philip Howard, a Dominican friar and son ofHenry Howard, 15th Earl of Arundel, founded a convent of nuns of the Second Order of Saint Dominic atVilvoorde in Flanders. This community later relocated to Carisbrooke.[5]
In April 1993, the recently formed Carisbrooke Priory Trust purchased the freehold of the then St Dominic's Priory, Carisbrooke on the Isle of Wight, the home of the Catholic Community of nuns since the house was built on the Victorian site in 1866.
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