Remains of Abbey of SS Mary Barbara and Edmund

REMAINS OF ABBEY OF SS MARY BARBARA AND EDMUND

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1304912
Date first listed:
08-Jul-1959
List Entry Name:
Remains of Abbey of SS Mary Barbara and Edmund
Statutory Address:
REMAINS OF ABBEY OF SS MARY BARBARA AND EDMUND

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1304912
Date first listed:
08-Jul-1959
List Entry Name:
Remains of Abbey of SS Mary Barbara and Edmund
Statutory Address 1:
REMAINS OF ABBEY OF SS MARY BARBARA AND EDMUND

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
REMAINS OF ABBEY OF SS MARY BARBARA AND EDMUND

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

County:
Norfolk
District:
King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Marham
National Grid Reference:
TF 70721 09810

Details

TF 7009 MARHAM

9/25 Remains of Abbey of S.S. Mary, Barbara 8.7.59 and Edmund

_ II*

Remains of Cistercian Abbey. Dedicated 1249. Clunch with ashlar dressings. South wall of nave survives with 2 circular clerestory windows and part of third. Eastern window is quatrefoil, western sexfoil, both moulded, with pierced spandrels and within chamfered surrounds. Below clerestory on south is string course acting as drip mould for cloister roof, the supporting corbels of which survive. To west are remains of vaulted room, probably a narthex. One springer survives with ribs of roll and fillet mouldings. Scheduled ancient monument, County Number 209.

Listing NGR: TF7072109810

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Legacy System number:
221499
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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