Cluniac priories in Great Britain

In the Middle Ages, from the 11th century, the Cluniac order established a number of religious houses in England, Wales, and Scotland.

Traditionally the Rule of Saint Benedict was interpreted that each monastery should be independent of other houses; this made it problematic to achieve reform if discipline had slipped or to resist the pressure to become a part of the Feudal structure, with the office of Abbot becoming an office at the disposal of the local lord.

Within just a century after its foundation the priory of Monk Bretton in Yorkshire ceased to be a Cluniac house, and remained Benedictine, pure and simple, till the Dissolution.

The prior of St Pancras at Lewes usually held the position of vicar-general of the Abbot of Cluny for England and Scotland.

In England, the Cluniac houses numbered thirty-five at the time of Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century.