Remains of Wigmore Abbey

REMAINS OF WIGMORE ABBEY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1179921
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1959
List Entry Name:
Remains of Wigmore Abbey
Statutory Address:
REMAINS OF WIGMORE ABBEY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1179921
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1959
List Entry Name:
Remains of Wigmore Abbey
Statutory Address 1:
REMAINS OF WIGMORE ABBEY

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
REMAINS OF WIGMORE ABBEY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Adforton
National Grid Reference:
SO 41067 71308

Details

SO 47 SW ADFORTON CP GRANGE

6/20 Remains of Wigmore Abbey

11.6.59

GV I

Abbey, now ruins. Late C12 and C14. Founded by Hugh Mortimer for Augustinian Canons of St Victor of Paris. Coursed sandstone rubble. Fragments of nave and chancel with gable wall of south transept. The Abbey ruins are a scheduled Ancient Monument, County no 135. (BoE, p 321-2; RCHM, Vol III, p 1).

Listing NGR: SO4107271321

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
149486
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 1
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 321-2

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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