Mount Grace Priory
MOUNT GRACE PRIORY, A19
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1315123
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Mount Grace Priory
- Statutory Address:
- MOUNT GRACE PRIORY, A19
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1315123
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Mount Grace Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOUNT GRACE PRIORY, A19
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:
- MOUNT GRACE PRIORY, A19
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Harlsey
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SE4491098484
Details
SE 49 NW
2/2
31.3.70
EAST HARLSEY
A 19
(east side, off)
Mount Grace Priory
GV
I
Ruins of Carthusian Priory. 1398 and C15. Ashlar, coursed squared stone.
Plan: great cloister to north, church to centre, scanty remains of lay
brothers' quarters to south. Gateway to west attached to Mount Grace House
(qv). Church: ruins of nave, north and south transepts with central
crossing and tower, chancel. Nave: now ruinous, west wall with moulded
pointed-arched door below large 4-centred-arched window, both with hoods.
Central tower of 2 stages above roof level. Offset diagonal buttresses,
tall pointed-arched, cusped belfry openings with hoodmoulds. Moulded eaves
band, embattled parapet with remains of pinnacles to each corner. South
transept has offset diagonal buttresses with large Perpendicular window
opening with hoodmould. Chancel has remains of north wall with 3 high
4-centred-arched windows. Interior: crossing has clustered responds with
moulded capitals, to moulded pointed arches with hoodmoulds. Great
cloister: 270 feet by 230 feet; around an open square are remains of single
cells with their attached gardens for approximately 20 monks. Courtyard
wall remains to first-floor height, with front walls of cells rising to
2-storey height. Corbels at first-floor level for former covered walkway.
Each cell has a 4-centred-arched doorway with a right-angled food opening to
the side. To north of cloister is a complete monks cell restored c1901. It
is of 2 storeys. Central 4-centred-arched doorway with hoodmould and food
opening to right. First-floor band. Stone coping, graduated stone slate
roof. Behind each cell is garden wall and lavatory set in the wall with a
chamfered doorway. To east side of cloister is a wellhead with gabled
vaulted roof. To the north-west of the church nave is the remains of an
oriel window, probably to the Prior's house. To south-west of church
attached to the Mount Grace House is the main entrance under 3 pointed
arches. History: it is the best preserved charterhouse in England. It was
founded by Thomas of Holland, Duke of Surrey in 1398; and is the last but
one of 7 charterhouses erected between 1343 and 1414. VCH, II, pp 24-26.
Mount Grace Priory English Heritage Guide Book. Ancient Monument No 10,
North Yorkshire.
Listing NGR: SE4491098484
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332435
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mount Grace Priory Guide Book, ()
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 24-26
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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