Abbess and Convent of West Malling, Benedictine nunnery of the Blessed Virgin at West Malling, Kent
Dates: Medieval institution; dissolved during the English Reformation
Biography
The West Malling religious house was a Benedictine nunnery that held the Great Cornard manor and administered it through a manorial steward.
Notes / Sources
The source tradition gives both a 1316 purchase from Thomas de Grey and a broader early-twelfth-century association with West Malling; the exact initial acquisition history requires archival verification.
Research sources:
- G. Crabbe, 'The de Greys of Little Cornard', Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, vol. 6, part 1, 1888, p. 18; Historic England Research Report 4947, Tree-ring analysis of timbers from Abbas Hall, Great Cornard. — https://suffolkinstitute.pdfsrv.co.uk/customers/Suffolk%20Institute/2014/01/10/Volume%20VI%20Part%201%20%281888%29_The%20de%20Greys%20of%20Little%20Conard%20G%20Crabbe_13%20to%2039.pdf
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