REMAINS OF BASE OF SOUTH WEST TOWER AND PART OF WEST CLAUSTRAL RANGE OF WEST ACRE PRIORY, 20 METRES EAST OF ABBEY FARM HOUSE

REMAINS OF BASE OF SOUTH WEST TOWER AND PART OF WEST CLAUSTRAL RANGE OF WEST ACRE PRIORY, 20 METRES EAST OF ABBEY FARM HOUSE, CHURCH GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1077661
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: REMAINS OF BASE OF SOUTH WEST TOWER AND PART OF WEST CLAUSTRAL RANGE OF WEST ACRE PRIORY, 20 METRES EAST OF ABBEY FARM HOUSE
Statutory Address:: REMAINS OF BASE OF SOUTH WEST TOWER AND PART OF WEST CLAUSTRAL RANGE OF WEST ACRE PRIORY, 20 METRES EAST OF ABBEY FARM HOUSE, CHURCH GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1077661
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: REMAINS OF BASE OF SOUTH WEST TOWER AND PART OF WEST CLAUSTRAL RANGE OF WEST ACRE PRIORY, 20 METRES EAST OF ABBEY FARM HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: REMAINS OF BASE OF SOUTH WEST TOWER AND PART OF WEST CLAUSTRAL RANGE OF WEST ACRE PRIORY, 20 METRES EAST OF ABBEY FARM HOUSE, CHURCH GREEN

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 BASE OF SOUTH WEST TOWER AND PART OF WEST CLAUSTRAL RANGE OF WEST ACRE PRIORY, 20 METRES EAST OF ABBEY FARM HOUSE, 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:: TF 78149 15140

Details

WEST ACRE CHURCH GREEN (south side) TF 7815 10/47 Remains of base of 19.10.51 south-west tower and part of west claustral range of West Acre Priory, 20 metres east of Abbey Farm House. (Formerly listed as Priory Gate- house and remains in Abbey Farm buildings.)

G.V. II*

Remains of base of south-west tower and part of west range of cloister of Priory of St. Mary and All Saints. C12 and C13. Flint, stone dressings. Base of Early English tower addition to west end of Norman church tower. East wall with blocked round-headed arch, north wall has 2 blocked pointed arches with angle corbel of vaulting inside tower of C15. Fragment of west end of south aisle attached at east. Norman west cloister range attached at south has four distinct chambers with surviving Norman and Early English evidence. Scheduled Ancient Monument, County Number 170. See F.H. Fairweather and H.L. Bradfer-Lawrence, The Priory of St. Mary and All Saints, Westacre, and excavations upon its site : Norfolk Archaeology, XXIII, 1929, 359-394.

Listing NGR: TF7814915140

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 221915
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Norfolk Archaeology' in Norfolk Archaeology, , Vol. 23, (1929), 359 394

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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.