REMAINS OF BARKING ABBEY AND OLD CHURCHYARD WALLS

REMAINS OF BARKING ABBEY AND OLD CHURCHYARD WALLS, BROADWAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1064406
Date first listed:: 28-May-1954
List Entry Name:: REMAINS OF BARKING ABBEY AND OLD CHURCHYARD WALLS
Statutory Address:: REMAINS OF BARKING ABBEY AND OLD CHURCHYARD WALLS, BROADWAY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1064406
Date first listed:: 28-May-1954
List Entry Name:: REMAINS OF BARKING ABBEY AND OLD CHURCHYARD WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: REMAINS OF BARKING ABBEY AND OLD CHURCHYARD WALLS, BROADWAY

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: REMAINS OF BARKING ABBEY AND OLD CHURCHYARD WALLS, BROADWAY

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Barking and Dagenham (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 43992 83933

Details

BROADWAY 1. Barking 5003 Remains of Barking Abbey and old churchyard walls TQ 48 SW 5/1 28.5.54

II GV

2. C12 and later. Remains of general layout of main building. Outer walls of abbey church survive in places to a height of several feet. Remains of other parts of abbey including the cloisters are in parts indicated by restored footings. Churchyard walls are mediaeval stone or C16 brick with later repairs. Ruins are those of one of the most important nunneries in the country. Founded in 666 AD by St Erkenwald, dissolved in 1539 and destroyed in 1541. The abbey was excavated in 1910. AM.

Listing NGR: TQ4401183928

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Legacy System number:: 198235
Legacy System:: LBS

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