REMAINS OF GREY FRIARS MONASTERY

REMAINS OF GREY FRIARS MONASTERY, WESTLETON ROAD

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1030715
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: REMAINS OF GREY FRIARS MONASTERY
Statutory Address:: REMAINS OF GREY FRIARS MONASTERY, WESTLETON ROAD

View of Greyfriars from the east, showing boundary wall in foreground and refectory building and gateway in background. — Uploaded by Tim Holt-Wilson This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2002-04-05
Reference:: IOE01/07203/01
Rights:: © Mr Keith Atkins. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1030715
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: REMAINS OF GREY FRIARS MONASTERY
Statutory Address 1:: REMAINS OF GREY FRIARS MONASTERY, WESTLETON ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: REMAINS OF GREY FRIARS MONASTERY, WESTLETON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Dunwich
National Grid Reference:: TM4777870366

Details

TM 47 SE 7/31 25.10.51

DUNWICH WESTLETON ROAD Remains of Grey Friars Monastery

II*

Ruins of convent of Franciscan friars, comprising walling enclosing an area of just over 7 acres, 2 gateways to the west and a small fragment of one of the monastic buildings. Founded here after 1289; surviving remains probably late C14. Random flint and stone with stone dressings, some later repairs in pebble and brick. Both gateways have moulded 4-centre arches; the smaller gateway to the north has flushwork panelling above. The surviving fragment of the monastic buildings stood along the south side of the cloister; the north wall has buttresses and 2 tiers of window openings with 4-centre arches, some restored, one arch with cusping. The boundary wall is fragmentary in places. Scheduled Ancient Monument (County No. 40).

Listing NGR: TM4777870366

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 285547
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.