Remains of Tresco Priory and Associated Monuments and Attached Walls
REMAINS OF TRESCO PRIORY AND ASSOCIATED MONUMENTS AND ATTACHED WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141172
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Tresco Priory and Associated Monuments and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF TRESCO PRIORY AND ASSOCIATED MONUMENTS AND ATTACHED WALLS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141172
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Dec-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Tresco Priory and Associated Monuments and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINS OF TRESCO PRIORY AND ASSOCIATED MONUMENTS AND ATTACHED WALLS
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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:
- REMAINS OF TRESCO PRIORY AND ASSOCIATED MONUMENTS AND ATTACHED WALLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isles of Scilly (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tresco
- National Grid Reference:
- SV8947214242
Details
SV 8914
1358-0/7/123
TRESCO
Remains of Tresco Priory and associated monuments and attached walls
(Formerly Listed as: Remains of Tresco Priory in Gardens of Tresco Abbey)
12.02.75
GV
II
Remains of Priory. c.1300; much rebuilt in C19. Granite rubble
and cut granite walls. Nave, chancel and site of crossing.
Chamfered arch of 2 orders to possible former crossing arch
and smaller arch to ritual epistle side of nave. Other
fragmentary features include north entry with chamfered jambs
of 2 orders. Inscribed C6 Early Christian tombstone reset
below the east jamb of the doorway reads "THI FILI...COGI (or
TOGI)". In use for burials until C19, and memorials include
chest tomb with slate top to James Pender, d.1711, and Mary
Nicholas, d.1807. The priory is mentioned in a charter of
Henry I as belonging to Tavistock Abbey in the reign of Edward
the Confessor. Subsidiary features: tall granite rubble walls
enclose garden to south east and extend approx. 50m to west
with return of 40m to north.
(P Laws: The Buildings of Scilly: Redruth: 1980-: 5; B.H.
St.J.O'Neil: Isles of Scilly: London (HMSO): 1950-: 12-14;
Buildings of England: Pevsner, N., and Ratcliffe, E.: Cornwall
(London: 2nd ed. 1970), 210).
Listing NGR: SV8947614232
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 62558
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Laws, P, The Buildings of Scilly, (1980), 5
O'Neil, BH St J, Isles of Scilly, (1950), 12-14
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Cornwall, (1970), 210
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 8 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly,
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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