Coverham Abbey Ruins
COVERHAM ABBEY RUINS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1178910
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Coverham Abbey Ruins
- Statutory Address:
- COVERHAM ABBEY RUINS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1178910
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Coverham Abbey Ruins
- Statutory Address 1:
- COVERHAM ABBEY RUINS
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:
- 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
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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