St Mary's Priory House the Priory
ST MARY'S PRIORY HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1053064
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- St Mary's Priory House the Priory
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARY'S PRIORY HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1053064
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- St Mary's Priory House the Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARY'S PRIORY HOUSE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE PRIORY
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARY'S PRIORY HOUSE
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIORY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Witney
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 36086 09652
Details
WITNEY COGGES SP3609 8/90 The Priory and St. Mary's Priory House GV II*
Priory, now vicarage. c.1150-80; mainly c.1230-50; remodelled and reduced in size c. 1600-20. Uncoursed limestone rubble; gabled stone slate roof; rear lateral stack of stone finished in brick. Surviving C13 hall and services remodelled as 2-unit plan with central passage in early C17. 2 storeys; two blocks, including former hall to right, of 4-window range. Mid C13 pointed lancet to right; hood moulds over narrow mid C17 sashes set in moulded stone architraves; C20 door set in C17 pointed wall: hood moulds over mid Cl9 three-light window above early C17 cavetto-moulded stone-mullioned 4-light window; C13 windows with dressed stone surrounds, one blocked. Interior: C13 hall to right has pointed chamfered rere-arches of former windows to front and right; mid C13 common-rafter roof of very slight scantling with open notched-lap joints to braced collars. Jowled post and some timber framing remains of C13 timber screen to left of hall and flanking service passage; rear of passage has hollow-chamfered jambs of C13 door, with half-pyramid stops; 2 doorways with chamfered stone jambs to rear. C17 stop-chamfered beams, and moulded stone fireplace with spit rack to left. St. Mary's Priory House to right: built 1859. Squared and coursed linestone; gabled stone slate roof; stone end stacks. Double-depth plan. Elizabethan style. 2 storeys and attic; triple-gabled 3-window range. Canted bay window with sashes to right. Hood moulds over 2-light stone-mullioned windows with narrow mid C19 sashes. Entry to rear, Interior not inspected. History: The Priory was founded in 1103 as a daughter house of Fecamp Abbey. The roof is similar to the C13 roof of poles and small timbers at The Old Rectory, Standlake (q.v.). (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.551; J. Blair and J.M. Steane, "Investigations at Cogges, Oxfordshire, 1978-81: The Priory and Parish Church", 0xanensia, Vol.47, (1982)).
Listing NGR: SP3608709650
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252644
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 551
Oxonensia in Oxonensia, Vol. 47, (1982)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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