Priory Gatehouse
PRIORY GATEHOUSE, CHURCH GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1077660
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Gatehouse
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY GATEHOUSE, CHURCH GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1077660
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Gatehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY GATEHOUSE, CHURCH GREEN
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:
- PRIORY GATEHOUSE, CHURCH GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- West Acre
- National Grid Reference:
- TF7804815231
Details
TF 7815
10/45
WEST ACRE
CHURCH GREEN (south side)
Priory Gatehouse
(formerly listed as Priory Gatehouse and remains of Abbey Farm buildings)
19.10.51
G.V.
I
Gatehouse. C14. North entrance to outer court of Priory of St. Mary and All Saints, founded c.1100 by de Toni family. Later adopted Augustinian rule. Dissolved 1538, one of the first of the greater houses to surrender. Flint with stone dressings, roofless. 2 storeys. North side has 2 centred double hollow chamfered arch set on chamfered jambs. 3 shields with coats of arms above, legible in C18 as de Toni and Beauchamp, Earls of Warwick, further Beauchamp coat. First floor with single chamfered lancet. Springing of gable. South-east angle buttress with set offs. Interior of arch has angle shafts supporting quadripartite stone rib vaults with brick infilling. South face has 2 2-centred arches within one embrassure, a further outer former north springing of second inner vault. Clunch and brick courses above.
Scheduled Ancient Monument, County Number 170.
See F.H. Fairweather and H.L. Bradfer-Lawrence 'The Priory .. Westacre' Norfolk Archaeology XXIII, 1929, pp.359-394 (ref. p. 373).
Listing NGR: TF7804815231
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 221913
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Norfolk Archaeology in Norfolk Archaeology, Vol. 23, (1929), 359 394
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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