White Abbey, Alberbury, Shropshire
An abbey was founded here in 1221-1226. It was as an Augustinian Monastery dependent on Lilleshall Abbey. In 1230 it became one of three monasteries of the Grandmontine Order. The order was based in Limousin in France. It remained linked to France until the 'expulsion of alien (foreign) orders' was enforced 1414. In 1441 it became the property of All Souls College, Oxford. It was maintained as a chantry chapel. It was suppressed under the suppression of chantries act in 1547. The church was converted into a farmhouse, White Abbey Farm in 1578. It was remodelled in 1857-8.
