Louth Abbey Ruins
LOUTH ABBEY RUINS, SOUTH COCKERINGTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1063050
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Louth Abbey Ruins
- Statutory Address:
- LOUTH ABBEY RUINS, SOUTH COCKERINGTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1063050
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Louth Abbey Ruins
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOUTH ABBEY RUINS, SOUTH COCKERINGTON ROAD
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:
- LOUTH ABBEY RUINS, SOUTH COCKERINGTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- East Lindsey (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Keddington
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 35487 88565
Details
KEDDINGTON SOUTH COCKERINGTON TF 38 NE ROAD (south side) 8/34 Louth Abbey Ruins 9.3.67 G.V. I
Abbey ruins with fragments of north and south walls of chancel of cruciform church, above ground; and grass covered outline of rest of church with cloister, chapter house, undercroft, dormitories, kitchen etc. to south. Late C12, mid C13. Uncoursed limestone rubble, coursed greenstone blocks, some limestone ashlar. Irregularly shaped limestone rubble core of south wall of chancel with several feet of coursed greenstone blocks on north side; freestanding, reaching approximately 15 feet at highest point. Lower limestone rubble wall remains of north wall with plinth of buttress to north-west. Part of ashlar plinth extends to north and east defining eastern limit of chancel. Late C12 simply scalloped capital of respond or attached shaft lies in grass in south transept. Several late C12 ashlar fragments in north-west of nave, several with chamfered corners, simple roll moulded respond sections and 2 no. sections with small rolls separated by straight moulding. First colonisation of first Cistercian Foundation in the country at Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. Sources: Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society. Volume 12. 1873 Louth Park Abbey. E Venables pp.41-55. The Architectural Remains at Louth Park Abbey E. Trollope, p.p. 22-25.
Listing NGR: TF3548788565
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 195476
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Trollope, E, The Architectural Remains at Louth Park Abbey, (1873), 22 25
Venables, E, Louth Park Abbey, (1873), 41 55
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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