THOBY PRIORY RUINS

THOBY PRIORY RUINS, THOBY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1293183
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1952
List Entry Name:: THOBY PRIORY RUINS
Statutory Address:: THOBY PRIORY RUINS, THOBY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1293183
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: THOBY PRIORY RUINS
Statutory Address 1:: THOBY PRIORY RUINS, THOBY LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THOBY PRIORY RUINS, THOBY LANE

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

County:: Essex
District:: Brentwood (District Authority)
Parish:: Mountnessing
National Grid Reference:: TQ 62677 98729

Details

MOUNTNESSING

TQ69NW THOBY LANE 723-1/6/475 (North side) 29/12/52 Thoby Priory Ruins (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD PRIORY DRIVE, Mountnessing Thoby Priory Ruins)

II

Ruins of Augustinian Priory. C14 and C15. Flint rubble and red brick in English bond. Section about 15m long of S wall of presbytery, aligned E-W, turning N for one metre at E end, with diagonal buttress at corner. Abuts on an early C19 brick wall to E, not of special architectural or historic interest. Includes 2 windows with 2-centred arches, splayed to the N, the tracery missing. The W window is much obscured by creeper at time of inspection, June 1989. The E window is C15, of red bricks 0.23m long by 0.10m wide by 0.06m deep, cut to shape, blocked with red bricks in English bond to a height of 2m. The rubble contains Roman brick and tile, and has bonding courses of red brick similar to that of the E window. Some dressings of clunch, much eroded, and limestone. The priory was founded in the first half of the C12 and suppressed in 1525.

Listing NGR: TQ6267798729

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Legacy System number:: 373757
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.