Craswall Priory

CRASWALL PRIORY

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1342128
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1952
Statutory Address:
CRASWALL PRIORY
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1342128
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
14-Mar-1986
Statutory Address 1:
CRASWALL PRIORY

Location

Statutory Address:
CRASWALL PRIORY

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

District:
County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Craswall
National Grid Reference:
SO 27280 37660

Details

SO 23 NE CRASWALL CP -

1/4 Craswall Priory (formerly listed as Craswall Priory 29.9.52 Ruins)

- II

Ruins of Priory of Order of Grandmont founded 1220 - 5. Sandstone rubble with a few visible dressed stones. Plan barely distinguishable but consisted of small apsidal ended church with sacristry separated from chapter house by a small passage. The RCHM plan also shows the position of the claustral ranges. A few "water holding" bases are still visible at the entrance to the chapter house. Many of the features noted by Pevsner are now indistinguishable. Ancient Monument No 24. (RCHM Vol I, p 42/3; BoE p 107).

Listing NGR: SO2728037660

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355313
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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 42-3
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 107

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