Remains of Alvecote Priory
REMAINS OF ALVECOTE PRIORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262207
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Alvecote Priory
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF ALVECOTE PRIORY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262207
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Alvecote Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINS OF ALVECOTE PRIORY
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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.
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:
- REMAINS OF ALVECOTE PRIORY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- North Warwickshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shuttington
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 25090 04292
Details
SHUTTINGTON ALVECOTE SK20SZ 5/101 Remains of Alvecote Priory 22/07/55 (Formerly listed as Alvecote Priory with remains of medieval walls to north-east and barn to west)
GV II
Priory ruins. Probably C14. Regular coursed sandstone. South wall has isolated central section approximately 5 metres high with doorway of 2 stop-moulded orders. Left return side has part of plain doorway. Right return side has part of stone mullioned window. To the north-east is a low fragment of wall, probably a remnant of the south wall of the monastic church. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire: p 398; VCH: Warwickshire: Vol IV, p212)
Listing NGR: SK2509004292
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435613
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1947), 212
Pevsner, N, Wedgewood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1981), 398
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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