Ruins of Grace Dieu Priory
RUINS OF GRACE DIEU PRIORY, ASHBY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074118
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Grace Dieu Priory
- Statutory Address:
- RUINS OF GRACE DIEU PRIORY, ASHBY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074118
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Grace Dieu Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUINS OF GRACE DIEU PRIORY, ASHBY 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:
- RUINS OF GRACE DIEU PRIORY, ASHBY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- North West Leicestershire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Belton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 43530 18351
Details
BELTON ASHBY ROAD SK 41 NW 6/2 Ruins of Grace Dieu Priory 7.12.62 - II
Ruins of Augustinian nunnery. Founded c1240 by Roesia de Verdun. Most of surviving detail is C15-C17. Random rubble stone with ashlar dressings, no roofs. Plan is now indistinct and only fragments of walls survive, though up to 2 storeys in height with some taller chimneys. At NE end is a block with gabled east wall, wide 4-centred moulded C15 arch at east end, buttress, and some moulded window surrounds with fragments of tracery. Running south and west from this is a long wall, probably part of dormitory range, with irregular door and window openings, some retaining moulded stone dressings, and chamfered 4-centred stone fireplace arches. At south west end is a tall C17 chimney stack, mostly of brick with stone dressings, with remains of 2 square shafts. Fireplaces have stone jambs, the lower fireplace with segmental brick arch and oven. Another chimney adjacent. Other remains have no surviving features. At the Dissolution the priory became the home of the Beaumont family, and later the childhood home of the early C17 dramatist Francis Beaumont. Scheduled Ancient Monument No 14.
Listing NGR: SK4353018351
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358049
- 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.
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