Denny Abbey Refectory
DENNY ABBEY REFECTORY, ELY ROAD
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Overview
- 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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- Reference:
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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 1:
- DENNY ABBEY REFECTORY, ELY ROAD
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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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 50694
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Masters, R, History of Waterbeach, ()
Clay, W K, History of Waterbeach, (1859)
Archaeological Journal in Archaeological Journal, Vol. 124, (1967), 232 233
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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