Hampole was founded before 1156 by William de Clarefai and his wife Avicia de Tany.
There were 14 at dissoultion in 1539.
Avice's daughter, Sibilla, and her son, Ralph de Tilii, and then their son, Roger.
The community had resident brothers.
In 1267 the community had exceeded its means and no longer accepted new members.
In 1535 the community's net annual income was 63 pounds, 1 shilling and 7 1/2 pence.
A description of the buildings was given by the Suppression Commission (London: P.R.O., SP 5/2/175-188).
Excavations were conducted at Hampole in 1937 which proved the convent existed in the hamlet beyond a doubt (Excavations at Hampole Priory, 204-212). The archaeological dig produced the footing of the east cloister wall, 74 feet, 6 inches long, the south cloister wall, 64 feet long and the church choir, 20 feet long, with a separate house attached on the east, 15 feet long. Two square columns which are 8 feet high and 3 feet square with carved cone capitals flank a farm driveway and can still be examined. Nothing else exists "except some dressed stone in walls, a fine head-stop of a corbel, and a pinnacle in a front garden" (The Buildings of England, 242, quoted in Medieval English Cistercian Nunneries: Their Art and Physical Remains, 171).
See Architecture/Archaeology above
Papsturkunden in England, Volume 3:16.
Women Religious: The Founding of English Nunneries After the Norman Conquest
Medieval Religious Houses in England and Wales, 223.
Medieval English Cistercian Nunneries: Their Art and Physical Remains, 171.
Excavations at Hampole Priory
The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Yorkshire3:163-65 available online at ">http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=36246"> [Victoria County History]
Dugdale's Monasticon Volume 5
Hanepol, or Hampole Priory, in Yorkshire
According to S. Thompson, there appears to have been an anchorage attached to or nearby the community. No evidence survives of links between Hampole and a Cistercian abbey, but the house's claims to be Cistercian were endorsed by Pope Innocent III and referred to by Archbishop Walter Giffard (Women Religious: The Founding of English Nunneries After the Norman Conquest, 109). The ambiguity is reflected in the Suppression Papers, where Hampole is described as 'ordinis Sancti Augustini et de regula Sancti Benedicti Cistercien' (Women Religious: The Founding of English Nunneries After the Norman Conquest, 110). The Mappa Mundi describes the community in the same terms as the Gilbertine houses (Women Religious: The Founding of English Nunneries After the Norman Conquest, 111).
There was a warden in 1268 and in 1314 and conversi in 1308.
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There was some confusion regarding the order to which Hampole belonged. The community appears to have belonged to the Cistercian order; however, in the Suppression Papers, Hampole is described as 'ordinis Sancti Augustini et de regula Sancti Benedicti Cistercien' (Thompson, 110). In the Mappa Mundi, Hampole is described as a Gilbertine community (Thompson, 111).
