Coverham Abbey Ruins
COVERHAM ABBEY RUINS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1178910
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1967
- Statutory Address:
- COVERHAM ABBEY RUINS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1178910
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jan-1986
- Statutory Address 1:
- COVERHAM ABBEY RUINS
Location
- Statutory Address:
- COVERHAM ABBEY RUINS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Coverham with Agglethorpe
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 10601 86404
Details
SE 18 NW COVERHAM WITH AGGLETHORPE COVERHAM ABBEY
10/14 Coverham Abbey Ruins 13/2/67 (Formerly listed as Premonstratension Abbey Ruins) GV I
Ruins of Premonstratensian abbey. C13 and C14. Rubble faced with ashlar. Four sections of the abbey church survive not incorporated into existing buildings. 1: C13 west wall of north transept, with roll top to plinth on outside, pierced by 2 lancet windows with hollow and roll mouldings. 2: C13 west wall of north aisle and nave, with the west doorway of the north aisle, a small pointed-arched opening with a roll moulding on the chamfer. 3: 2 C14 arches of the south nave arcade, with 3 filleted quatrefoil-plan piers, and arches of 2 deep orders with a wave moulding on the chamfers. 4: C14 south respond of the east nave arch, and part of the west wall of the south transept. The abbey was moved from Swainby c.1202, and damaged by Scottish incursions 1331-32. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument. Coverham Abbey guide book on sale at adjacent nursery, and VCH i, pp. 215-8.
Listing NGR: SE1060286397
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321763
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Coverham Abbey Guide, ()
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 215-8
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