Remains of Lilleshall Abbey
Remains of Lilleshall Abbey, Lilyhurst Road
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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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.
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 Lilleshall Abbey, Lilyhurst Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Telford and Wrekin (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lilleshall
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 73765 14208
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 362273
- 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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