REMAINS OF CLUNIAC BENEDICTINE PRIORY OF ST MARY AND ST PETER AND ST PAUL

REMAINS OF CLUNIAC BENEDICTINE PRIORY OF ST MARY AND ST PETER AND ST PAUL, PRIORY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1342389
Date first listed:: 13-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: REMAINS OF CLUNIAC BENEDICTINE PRIORY OF ST MARY AND ST PETER AND ST PAUL
Statutory Address:: REMAINS OF CLUNIAC BENEDICTINE PRIORY OF ST MARY AND ST PETER AND ST PAUL, PRIORY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1342389
Date first listed:: 13-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: REMAINS OF CLUNIAC BENEDICTINE PRIORY OF ST MARY AND ST PETER AND ST PAUL
Statutory Address 1:: REMAINS OF CLUNIAC BENEDICTINE PRIORY OF ST MARY AND ST PETER AND ST PAUL, PRIORY 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.

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Statutory Address:: REMAINS OF CLUNIAC BENEDICTINE PRIORY OF ST MARY AND ST PETER AND ST PAUL, PRIORY ROAD

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County:: Norfolk
District:: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Castle Acre
National Grid Reference:: TF8139714810

Details

TF 81 SW 8/11

CASTLE ACRE PRIORY ROAD Remains of Cluniac Benedictine Priory of St. Mary and St Peter and St Paul

G.V. I

Remains of Cluniac Benedictine Priory of St. Mary and SS Peter and Paul. C12 church and monastery, C15 and C16 alterations and additions in west range forming Prior's Lodging. Founded 1090 by William de Warrene, second Earl of Surrey, dissolved 1537. Benedictines of the Cluniac Reform. Stone faced, flint built church, flint monastery. Cruciform church with monastic quadrangle to south. Church west elevation of early C12, Romanesque freestone tripartite facade. Surviving to parapet height. Nave gable has central round arched door with 4 orders supporting arch of diaper, rope, zig zag and bobbin sections. Flanking bands of interlace blank arches in 3 stages. Large Perpendicular west window, with flanking diaper pattern Norman blank windows. Clasping nook-shafted buttresses to parapet height. Aisles have single round arch door, blank windows and interlaced arches above. At south-west fourth storey, above aisle formed by Transitional tower with 2 shafted 2-pointed arched windows to each face. Blank arcading and interlace to interior of nave west gable. Nave elevation survives on south side only, one bay of arcade with gallery and clerestorey with half passage above. Piers with diagonal grooving, wall shafts running through 3 storeys formerly supporting unvaulted roof. Vaulted south aisle. Remains of C12 nave, aisles, crossing, transepts, chapels, choir and sanctuary. Compound section piers of polychrome greystone and carstone banding. Outline of reconstructed apsed east end terminations after Cluny II altered to square ends in C14 and C15. C12 monastic quadrangle to south, with Chapter house, Dormitory with undercroft and stairs, garde-robe. Rere-dorter at right angles at south, with drains and lavatories, arched over river. C12 Norman and C14 Infirmary. South range with Norman Refectory and kitche, further later kitchen. West range has C12 Prior's Lodging and west gate, altered in C15 and C16. Central c.1500 flint chequerwork and timber frame gabled pantiled 2 storey porch with 4-centred arch and window. C12 zig zag arch and 2 bay rib vaulted passage. Refaced facade of C12 west range to north, with C12 range refaced in C16 at north-west. 2 storey gabled west elevations with C15 first floor stone oriel, north face with perhaps C16 post-Dissolution stone bowed first floor window on buttress base with squinches. Norman ground floor door. Interior has ground floor C12 aisled vaulted undercroft with parlatorium to north. First floor Prior's Chapel with C12 arched apsed sanctuary, C14 east window and sedile. C15 scissor braced roof, remains of inner moulded ceiling. Presumably post-Dissolution C16 inserted stack divides into 2 chambers. Further detached possibly agricul- tural buildings at southwest. Scheduled Ancient Monument, County Number 2. See F.J.E. Raby and P.K.B. Reynolds Castle Acre Priory (1952). In care of HBMC.

Listing NGR: TF8139714810

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Legacy System number:: 221879
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Raby, FJE, Reynolds, PKB , Castle Acre Priory, (1952)

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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.