Chapel to Clare Priory
CHAPEL TO CLARE PRIORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1285828
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel to Clare Priory
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL TO CLARE PRIORY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1285828
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel to Clare Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL TO CLARE 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:
- CHAPEL TO CLARE PRIORY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Clare
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 77000 45000
Details
1. CLARE Chapel to Clare Priory 2006 (Formerly listed as Clare Priory ruins) TL 74 NE 16/571 TL 74 NE 18/571 TL 74 NE 19/571 19.12.61.
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2. Clare Priory was founded in 1248. The building now in use as the chapel of the Priory was originally the Infirmary and was made into a barn in 1748. In 1953 the Augustinian Order of Friars returned to the Priory and the Infirmary (barn) then became a chapel for the Order. There is a C20 tablet recording that here (Clare Priory) were buried Joan of Acre, Countess of Gloucester and daughter of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile, who died in 1305; also Lionel Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III and Phillipa of Hainault, who died in 1368; and his wife Elizabeth, grand-daughter of Joan of Acre, who died in 1363. A C14 rubble building with stone dressings with heavy diagonal corner buttresses and additional buttresses on the north and south sides. The lower windows have pointed arches with plain tracery and the upper windows are small stone dressed casements, formerly to a loft or upper storey. The west gable has 3 brick dressed windows with segmental arched heads and ogee arched tracery. The interior was renovated in te C20. Roof tiled, hipped at the east end.
Listing NGR: TL7700045000
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282926
- 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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