DENNY ABBEY REFECTORY

DENNY ABBEY REFECTORY, ELY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1331328
Date first listed:: 31-Aug-1962
List Entry Name:: DENNY ABBEY REFECTORY
Statutory Address:: DENNY ABBEY REFECTORY, ELY ROAD

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Date:: 1999-09-21
Reference:: IOE01/00261/22
Rights:: © Dr Neil J. Clarke. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1331328
Date first listed:: 31-Aug-1962
List Entry Name:: DENNY ABBEY REFECTORY
Statutory Address 1:: DENNY ABBEY REFECTORY, ELY ROAD

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: DENNY ABBEY REFECTORY, ELY ROAD

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Waterbeach
National Grid Reference:: TL 49233 68460

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20/05/2020

TL 46 NE WATERBEACH ELY ROAD (East Side) 4/148 Denny Abbey Refectory 31.8.62

GV I

Refectory of Franciscan nunnery c.1340 now (1984) under restoration by the DoE. Barnack and ashlar limestone, unroofed. Five, two-trefoiled-light windows with quatrefoils in north wall, south wall rebuilt C16 and C17, and west wall C17 and C18. Converted before 1730 to an eight-bayed barn with thatched roof. Wall painting recorded by R.C.H.M. c.1970. The building is Crown Property and is a scheduled Ancient Monument. Spittle, S.D.T. Arch. J. Vol, 124, 1967 (for plan) R.C.H.M. (Cambs notes) Sketches of wall paintings Masters, R. History of Waterbeach (Buck engraving 1730) Clay, W.K. History of Waterbeach p. 136 (interior illus.) 1857.

Listing NGR: TL4923368460

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Legacy System number:: 50694
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Clay, W K, History of Waterbeach, (1859)
Masters, R, History of Waterbeach
'Archaeological Journal' in Archaeological Journal, , Vol. 124, (1967), 232 233

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.