Priory Church of St Margaret of Antioch
PRIORY CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1126476
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Church of St Margaret of Antioch
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1126476
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Church of St Margaret of Antioch
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH, CHURCH STREET
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 CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Isleham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 64245 74349
Details
TL 6474 ISLEHAM CHURCH STREET (North Side) 14/10 Priory Church of St. Margaret of Antioch /formerly listed as Priory (now barn)7 1.12.51
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A small Benedictine priory of c.1080-90 built by Count John and given to the abbey of St. Jacut in Brittany. Later it was used as a barn and now it is in the care of the Department of the Environment. Although restoration has taken place, the priory is substantially intact and remains a rare example of Romanesque work. The walls are principally of clunch laid in herringbone pattern with Barnack limestone plinth and dressings to door and window openings. The roofs have been rebuilt and that of the nave has been raised. Plan of nave, choir and apsed sanctuary, originally with a semi-domical roof. The west end has two C16 buttresses of flint with red brick quoins and a single round- headed lancet window. The barn doors in the north and south walls of the nave are also probably of the C16. The south doorway of the choir and most of the window openings are C13 with Caernarvon heads. The apse has original pilaster buttresses of Barnack. Interior. Round-headed choir arch, double recessed and unmoulded, on responds each with two attached half round columns with cushion capitals and splayed bases. Vacant nook shafts on west side. Sanctuary arch has been demolished but the rectangular piers have survived with moulded capitals and bases. At the west end of the nave there are three bulls eye window openings. RCHM: Record Card. Pevsner: Buildings of England, p.416.
Listing NGR: TL6424574349
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48821
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 416
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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