ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AT MONK BRETTON PRIORY
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1151179
Date first listed: 06-Feb-1952
Date of most recent amendment: 13-Jan-1986
Statutory Address: ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AT MONK BRETTON PRIORY, ABBEY LANE
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Location
Statutory Address: ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AT MONK BRETTON PRIORY, ABBEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
National Grid Reference: SE 37301 06592
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
SE30NE BARNSLEY ABBEY LANE
(east side),
Cundy Cross
4/2 Administration
building at
6.2.52 Monk Bretton
Priory (formerly
listed under Remains
of Monk Bretton Priory)
GV I
Administration building, part of Monk Bretton Priory Remains (q.v.). Late
C13 or early C14, re-roofed in 1931. Squared, coursed rubble, Welsh slate
roofs. Rectangular plan. Two storeys. West side: quoins. Entrance to
left with chamfered quoined surround and later cambered head. Two narrow
chamfered lights to right. Continuous dripmould over ground floor.
1st floor: 3-light double-chamfered windows to left and right of a central
doorway with chamfered quoined surround, all C17. 2-span roof. Rear: similar
to front, with entrance to right and three 3-light double-chamfered windows
to 1st floor. The left and right returns have 4 narrow ground-floor lights
and 2 gables.
Interior: 4 bays, divided by 3 octagonal monolithic stone piers with good
moulded bases and capitals. These support a single longitudinal beam which
is braced to the gable ends. A second tier of wooden piers support the valley
of the roofs. Cross-beams braced to the front and back walls formerly supported
the 1st floor. The ground-floor wall is considerably thicker that that of the
1st floor. Fireplace in front wall, ground floor, but no chimney.
This building is traditionally known as the guest house but,because of the lack
of fireplaces and garderobes, this is thought unlikely and that it was used for
the administration of the priory's estates, the upper floor perhaps being used
as a manorial courtroom.
The monastery of St. Mary Magdalen was founded c1154 for the Monks of the Order
of Cluny and colonised from La Charité-sur-Loire. It became Benedictine in
1281. After the Dissolution in 1538 the priory passed through various hands
until acquired by Barnsley Borough who, in 1932, placed the ruins in the care
of the state.
Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Dr. J. W. Walker, The Priory of St. Mary Magdalen,
Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1926.
Rose Graham and R. Gilyard-Beer, Monk Bretton Priory, Yorkshire.
D. of E. Official Handbook, 1966.
N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, 1967.
Listing NGR: SE3730206590
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 333687
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Graham, Rose, Gilyard-Beer, R , Monk Bretton Priory Yorkshire, (1966)
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)
Walker, J W , The Priory of St. Mary Magdelen, (1926)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing