Gatehouse to Monk Bretton Priory
GATEHOUSE TO MONK BRETTON PRIORY, ABBEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1315023
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse to Monk Bretton Priory
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE TO MONK BRETTON PRIORY, ABBEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1315023
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse to Monk Bretton Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEHOUSE TO MONK BRETTON PRIORY, ABBEY LANE
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.
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:
- GATEHOUSE TO MONK BRETTON PRIORY, ABBEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 37261 06600
Details
BARNSLEY ABBEY LANE SE30NE (east side), Cundy Cross 4/3 Gatehouse to Monk Bretton Priory (formerly 6.2.52 listed under Remains of Monk Bretton Priory) GV I Gatehouse to Monk Bretton Priory remains (q.v.). Early C15 and late C15, the Almonry to east late C16, incorporating walling of possibly an earlier gatehouse. Mainly deeply-coursed squared stone, the earlier walling to the lower parts of east side being smaller rubble. The plan consists of a main north-south thoroughfare with almonry to east, porter's lodge to west and square spiral-stair tower to south-west. Two storeys. On the north side is the central round-arched main entrance with hoodmould and figurehead stops, and above this is a canopied niche. To 1st floor are three 2-light cusped double-chamfered square-headed windows and, to each side, a larger pointed- arched opening. Dripmould at base of deep parapet which retains crenellation to left. On the south side is a similar archway flanked by buttresses, with the square tower to its left, with arched entrance. Above the archway is a square-headed, 2-light, cusped, double-chamfered window.
Interior: a third archway to the entrance lobby. Fireplace on west wall of porter's lodge and to each floor of south wall of almonry. The west wall of the almonry is gone.
The monastery of St. Mary Magdalen was founded for the Monks of the Order of Cluny and was colonised from La Charité-sur-Loire. It became Benedictine in 1281. After the Dissolution in 1538 the priory passed through various hands until acquired by Barnsley Borough who, in 1932, placed the ruins in the care of the state. Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Dr. J. W. Walker, The Priory of St. Mary Magdalen, Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1926.
Rose Graham and R. Gilyard-Beer, Monk Bretton Priory, Yorkshire, D. of E. Official Handbook, 1966.
N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, 1967.
Listing NGR: SE3726206596
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333688
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Walker, J W, The Priory of St. Mary Magdelen, (1926)
Graham, Rose, Gilyard-Beer, R, Monk Bretton Priory Yorkshire, (1966)
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)
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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