Site of Preceptory of the Holy Trinity (Knights Hospitallers)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Scheduled Monument
- List Entry Number:
- 1013402
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1990
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- Heritage Category:
- Scheduled Monument
- List Entry Number:
- 1013402
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1990
Location
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Beverley
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 03851 39676
Reasons for Designation
Site of a Preceptory of the Knights Hospitallers, one of only three founded as urban institutions, and latterly one of the wealthiest of their sixty or so houses. The Preceptory complex included residential and service buildings, a church and a burial ground, enclosed by a moat and entered by a formal gateway. Although no remains of the period are currently visible on the surface, evidence from elsewhere in the town suggests that building foundations and other archaeological features are likely to survive beneath the railway track and associated goods yard, which are slightly embanked.
Details
Site of a preceptory of the Knights Hospitallers, founded soon after 1201, when Sybil de Valloines gave the Order the manor of the Holy Trinity. At the dissolution in 1540 the Beverley preceptory was one of the wealthiest in England. Although much of the site was buried by the construction of the Hull- Bridlington railway in the 1840's, the northern and eastern sides of the moat were still visible in 1856, and the eastern arm, eventually filled in to make way for sidings, is shown on an OS 1:500 plan of 1892. All buildings and structures, including the platforms, the rail track and its ballast make-up, are excluded from the scheduling; the ground under all buildings and structures, including that under the platforms, the rail track and its ballast make-up, is included within the scheduling, however.
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Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 12608
- Legacy System:
- RSM
Legal
This monument is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 as amended as it appears to the Secretary of State to be of national importance. This entry is a copy, the original is held by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
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