Glasney College Remains
GLASNEY COLLEGE REMAINS, GLASNEY TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298629
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Glasney College Remains
- Statutory Address:
- GLASNEY COLLEGE REMAINS, GLASNEY TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298629
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Glasney College Remains
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLASNEY COLLEGE REMAINS, GLASNEY TERRACE
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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:
- GLASNEY COLLEGE REMAINS, GLASNEY TERRACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Penryn
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 78599 34206
Details
PENRYN
SW7834SE GLASNEY TERRACE 580-1/6/64 (North side (off)) Glasney College remains
GV II
Remains of collegiate church. C13. Rubble with Caen stone dressings. A moulded respond and its abutment rising above impost level, possibly the remains of stone vaulting. Nearby stands a complex-moulded Caen stone sill (not in situ). HISTORY: The site for Glasney College was chosen as a result of vivid dreams by Bishop Bronescombe while he was ill and delirious at Canterbury. In these dreams he saw "Thomas Becket who foretold his recovery, and told him on his return west, to found in the woods of Glasney in the episcopal manor of Penryn a collegiate church to the glory of God and in the name of St Thomas the Martyr ...". (Whetter J: The History of Glasney College: Padstow, Cornwall: 1988-; Roddis R J: Penryn, The History of an Ancient Cornish Borough: 1964-: 42 -46).
Listing NGR: SW7859934206
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365746
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Whetter, J, The History of Glasney College Padstow Cornwall, (1988)
Roddis, R J, Penryn The History of an Ancient Cornish Borough Penryn, (1964), 42-46
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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