The Order of Augustinian Canons proved to have the most numerous monastic sites in the East Riding. A decade after the establishment of the priory at Kirkham, s.p.b., another was established at Warter (1132), now a small estate village resulting from its ownership by the Lords Muncaster up to 1878 and Lord Nunburnholme thereafter, Lord Nunburnholme was the titled name of Charles Wilson the Victorian Hull shipping magnate who lived at Tranby Croft (now Hull Collegiate School), west Hull outer suburbs. The site of the priory is only clear from earthworks, no standing ruins, these beside the churchyard of St. James’ church, built 1860s. Warter is sited near the head of a valley penetrating the scarp slope of the Yorkshire Wolds a few miles east of Pocklington beside the Driffield road. The village church remains in reasonable condition and has some important Edwardian Arts and Crafts monuments inside, it is a redundant church.
North Ferriby Augustinian priory was always small-scale and comparatively poor. It exact site is uncertain but it was in existence by 1160. It is known that it was an annex of the abbey of the Temple of the Lord at Jerusalem in Jerusalem, the mother-church also manned by Augustinian canons. From the evidence of its part-surviving cartulary it is clear that it was endowed with lands in this part of the north bank of the Estuary – John of Hessle, for example, granted it pasture for 200 sheep and a sheepfold (see Burton, J. The Religious Orders in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the Twelfth Century (E.Y.L.H.S., 1989, 21).
Finally for the Augustinian canons, and much later was the founding of the small priory on the spring-line between south of Cottingham which came to be known as Haltemprice Priory. The site just west of Priory Road between Hull and Cottingham hay have some surviving stonework in a derelict farm building.
(to be continued – Cistercians)