Priory Remains
PRIORY REMAINS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315706
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Remains
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY REMAINS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315706
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Remains
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY REMAINS
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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.
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:
- PRIORY REMAINS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rosedale East Side
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SE7236995920
Details
SE 7295
16/51
10.11.53
ROSEDALE EAST SIDE
ROSEDALE ABBEY
Priory remains
(formerly listed as the remains of Rosedale Abbey)
GV
II
Priory remains, consisting of a buttressed pier containing a staircase.
C13. Sandstone ashlar. Pier approximately 4 metres high. Rebated doorway,
beneath flat lintel and semicircular retaining arch, to the north-east:
shouldered, square-headed light over. To the right, on the north face of
the pier, is a massive corbel, possibly the springing point of chamfered
vaulting, traces of which are visible above. Chamfered and roll-moulded
plinth to buttresses on the south and west. There are angle lights to the
north-west, and slits, deeply splayed inside, to the south-west and south-
east. Interior: stone spiral stair constructed of separate, individually
shaped blocks. The Priory, a Nunnery, was founded by the Cistercians under
the patronage of William of Rosedale, sometime before 1158. It was
dissolved by Henry VIII in 1536, when there were 8 nuns and the Prioress.
The Priory Chapel survived the dissolution. 3 centuries later it had fallen
into disrepair, and with the increased population in the dale, associated
with the new development of local ironstone, was found to be too small. It
was rebuilt in 1839 as the Church of St Mary and St Laurence (qv). Rev E H
Mowforth, Rosedale Priory and the Church of St Mary and St Laurence (qv).
Listing NGR: SE7236995920
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382469
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mowforth, Reverend E H, Rosedale Priory and the Church of St Mary and St Laurence, ()
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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