Ilchester
Community ID: 
 
2202
 
Alternate Names: 
 
St. Margaret's
 
Region: 
 
2X
 
Corporate Status: 
 
Priory
 
Date Founded: 
 
1281 or earlier
 
Date Terminated: 
 
1423
 
Rule: 
 
Augustinian?
 
Foundation Information: 
 

A hospital founded in the early 13th century has a prioress and nuns by 1281, possibly Augustinian, but other non-monastic hospitals' workers were also called prioress and nuns.

 
Population Counts: 
 

1334 prioress and 2 nuns
1423 prioress and 1 nun

 
Relative Wealth: 
 

Never large or wealthy

 
Charitable/Work: 
 

Founded as a hospital and was possibly never really a conventual community

 
Secondary Sources: 
 

Medieval Religious Houses in England and Wales, 288
Women Religious: The Founding of English Nunneries After the Norman Conquest, 40-41
The Victoria history of the county of Somerset2: 156-58 available online at ">http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=40946&strquery=ilches... [Victoria County History]
Dugdale's Monasticon Volume 6 Part 1
Hospital, or Nunnery, or Free Chapel, at Ilchester, in Somersetshire
White Hall in Ilchester
The Almshouse and St. Margaret's Leper Hospital, Ilchester.

 
Contributors: 
 
Bruce L. Venarde
 
Date Started: 
 
1281
 
Date Finished: 
 
1423
 
Length: 
 
425