Wilmington Priory
WILMINGTON PRIORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1185052
- Date first listed:
- 30-Aug-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Wilmington Priory
- Statutory Address:
- WILMINGTON PRIORY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1185052
- Date first listed:
- 30-Aug-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Wilmington Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILMINGTON PRIORY
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:
- WILMINGTON PRIORY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Wealden (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Long Man
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 54389 04254
Details
WILMINGTON THE STREET 1. 5208 (west side) TQ 5404 44/172 30.8.66 Wilmington Priory
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2. The property of the Sussex Archaeological Trust. This priory was an offshoot of the Benedictine Abbey of Grestain in Normandy which was founded about 1200 as a sort of grange or manorhouse for the supervision of the Abbey's English estates. It was suppressed with all the alien houses in 1414. The present L-shaped house is a principally C14 building incorporating some C13 work, the whole altered and adapted in the C18. Two storeys. Five windows. Faced with flints and stone rubble with red brick window dressings, the south wing cemented with an angle buttress. Hipped tiled roof. Sash windows with glazing bars intact. Doorway with flat hood on brackets. The west end of the ground floor was the porch. This has C14 stone quadripartite vaulting and a C13 stone pointed north doorway. To the south-west of the house are the ruins of the C14 Upper Hall of ashlar, flints and some brick consisting of 2 octagonal turrets with a wall between having a large window of 3 tiers of 3 lights with stone mullions and transoms. To the north of the house are further ruins, beneath which is a C14 vaulted undercroft. AM.
Listing NGR: TQ5444604231
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 295804
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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