Qualla: Hulne Priory https://qualla.com/hulne-priory en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/g/hulne-priory-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Hulne Priory https://qualla.com/hulne-priory Hulne Priory: Introduction https://qualla.com/hulne-priory/ Photo credit Les Hull, CC BY-SA 2.0. Stone friars carved in the eighteenth century watch over the ruins of Hulne Priory, a thirteenth-century friary founded by white-robed Carmelites in a corner of Northumberland that allegedly reminded them of Mount Carmel in Palestine. The site has the bones of a religious community: cloister, chapter house, church. It also has something most English friaries lack: a fortified pele tower, built in the fifteenth century because Scottish raiders made even prayer a dangerous occupation here, two miles from the border with violence.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/g/hulne-priory-wp/gcyg-hulne-priory-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Hulne Priory: Carmelites in Northumberland https://qualla.com/hulne-priory/ Photo credit Rob Angus, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Carmelites trace their order to hermits who lived on Mount Carmel above Haifa in the early thirteenth century, and they took their identity from that arid Levantine hilltop even after the Crusader states collapsed and the order scattered across Europe. William II de Vesci, a ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/g/hulne-priory-wp/gcyg-hulne-priory-carmelites-in-northumberland.mp3 0:06 2 full Hulne Priory: A Tower for a Cloister https://qualla.com/hulne-priory/ Photo credit Clive Nicholson, CC BY-SA 2.0. Most English friaries were built as if peace was a permanent condition. Hulne was not. A surrounding wall went up early, and by the fifteenth century a full pele tower had been added - the squat, thick-walled defensive house typical of Northumberland and the Scottish Borders. The...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/g/hulne-priory-wp/gcyg-hulne-priory-a-tower-for-a-cloister.mp3 0:06 3 full Hulne Priory: Dissolution and Restoration https://qualla.com/hulne-priory/ Photo credit Writingalltheway, CC BY-SA 3.0. Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s emptied Hulne along with every other religious house in England. The Percy family - the great Northumberland dynasty whose seat at Alnwick Castle stood just two miles away - took possession of the land, and the priory becam...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/g/hulne-priory-wp/gcyg-hulne-priory-dissolution-and-restoration.mp3 0:06 4 full Hulne Priory: Hollywood Comes to Hulne https://qualla.com/hulne-priory/ Photo credit Clive Nicholson, CC BY-SA 2.0. The priory's careful preservation as a landscape ornament also made it cinematic. HTV's Robin of Sherwood, the cult 1980s television series with Michael Praed as Robin, used Hulne as Kirklees Abbey - the supposed site of Robin Hood's death by treachery in old age. Six years later...

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