Kirkstead Abbey Ruins
KIRKSTEAD ABBEY RUINS, ABBEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1288192
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Kirkstead Abbey Ruins
- Statutory Address:
- KIRKSTEAD ABBEY RUINS, ABBEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1288192
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Kirkstead Abbey Ruins
- Statutory Address 1:
- KIRKSTEAD ABBEY RUINS, ABBEY LANE
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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:
- KIRKSTEAD ABBEY RUINS, ABBEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- East Lindsey (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woodhall Spa
- National Grid Reference:
- TF1892961645
Details
TF 16 SE KIRKSTEAD ABBEY LANE
(south side)
1/23 Kirkstead Abbey
Ruins
14.9.66
G.V. I
Former Cistercian Abbey church, now ruined fragment of south east
angle of south transept. c.1200. Limestone ashlar. Triforium
and clerestory arches can be seen, single splayed and round
headed with moulded imposts to triforium and external angle shaft
with scalloped capitals to the clerestory. Pilaster buttress to
east side. Inside is a roll moulded string course from which
rises a circular wall shaft to a floriated capital supporting a
vaulting rib. On the south side can be seen one vaulting corbel
for the vault to the sacristy adjoining the transept to the
cloister, and above the line of the dormitory roof. Scheduled
Ancient Monument No.6.
Listing NGR: TF1892961645
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400432
- 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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