Remains of Lilleshall Abbey

Remains of Lilleshall Abbey, Lilyhurst Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1293216
Date first listed:: 18-Jun-1959
List Entry Name:: Remains of Lilleshall Abbey
Statutory Address:: Remains of Lilleshall Abbey, Lilyhurst Road

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1293216
Date first listed:: 18-Jun-1959
List Entry Name:: Remains of Lilleshall Abbey
Statutory Address 1:: Remains of Lilleshall Abbey, Lilyhurst Road

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

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: Remains of Lilleshall Abbey, Lilyhurst Road

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District:: Telford and Wrekin (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lilleshall
National Grid Reference:: SJ 73765 14208

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/05/2020

SJ 71SW 29/420

LILLESHALL LILYHURST ROAD Remains of Lilleshall Abbey 18.6.59

GV I Scheduled Ancient Monument. Founded circa 1148 by Richard de Belmeis for Canons of the Augustinian Order of Aras. The building is late Norman to Early English. The extant ruins comprise:- nearly the whole of the church about 228 ft long with a very fine west doorway of Transitional Norman of the C12 and a fragment of a lofty wall adjoining to the north with trefoiled blank arcading; chapels on each side of the chancel and the north and south transept; the vesty; the cloisters; the chapter house (except the east wall) and the frater (on the south side of the courtyard). The site was carefully explored in 1891.

During the Civil War, the Abbey then the house of Sir Richard Leveson was fortified for the King and practically destroyed in a siege by the Parliamentary forces.

Listing NGR: SJ7374814220

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Legacy System number:: 362273
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.