Craswall Priory
CRASWALL PRIORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342128
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Craswall Priory
- Statutory Address:
- CRASWALL PRIORY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342128
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Craswall Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRASWALL PRIORY
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355313
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 42-3
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 107
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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