Ankerwyke Priory Ruins
ANKERWYKE PRIORY RUINS, STAINES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319364
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Ankerwyke Priory Ruins
- Statutory Address:
- ANKERWYKE PRIORY RUINS, STAINES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319364
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Ankerwyke Priory Ruins
- Statutory Address 1:
- ANKERWYKE PRIORY RUINS, STAINES ROAD
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:
- ANKERWYKE PRIORY RUINS, STAINES ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wraysbury
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 00410 72679
Summary
C13 and C15 ruins of Ankerwyke Priory.
History
Ankerwyke Priory, a Benedictine nunnery lies across the River Thames from Runnymede. The Priory was founded in the late C12 and was dedicated to St Mary Magdalene.
Magna Carta, which means ‘Great Charter’, was sealed at Runnymede on 15th June 1215. This was an agreement between King John and his barons and clergy which, for the first time, made the monarch subject to the laws of the land. It also gave free men the right to justice and a fair trial. Over the subsequent 800 years it has influenced many constitutional documents including the United States’ Bill of Rights.
Runnymede today is a memorial landscape to the on-going struggle for democracy and liberty.
Details
C13 and C15. Two short lengths of two storey chalk rubble wall, one L-plan other partly of red brick. Three windows of C13, C14 and C15.
VCH 111 p.321 RCHM.
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/06/2015
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 40703
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 320
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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