Little Malvern Priory

Little Malvern Priory, Little Malvern, WR14 4JN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1349255
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1968
List Entry Name:: Little Malvern Priory
Statutory Address:: Little Malvern Priory, Little Malvern, WR14 4JN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1349255
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1968
List Entry Name:: Little Malvern Priory
Statutory Address 1:: Little Malvern Priory, Little Malvern, WR14 4JN

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.

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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:: Little Malvern Priory, Little Malvern, WR14 4JN

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Malvern Hills (District Authority)
Parish:: Little Malvern
National Grid Reference:: SO 77030 40381

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 December 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SO 74 SE 2/159

LITTLE MALVERN CP, LITTLE MALVERN Little Malvern Priory

(Formerly listed as A 4104, Church of St Giles)

25.03.68

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Church, formerly part of Benedictine Priory founded in 1171. C14 and late C15 with some Norman remains. Stone with tile roofs. Present church occupies the crossing tower and chancel of the priory church. Ruined north and south transepts and chapels also remain. The tower is of three stages with angle buttresses and a pyramidal roof. The upper stage is divided into vertical panels with trefoiled heads. The bell openings are each of two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil under a pointed head. Re-set within the blocked south crossing arch is a two-light window with flowing tracery of early C14 type. Above the ruined chapels on both sides there is a two-bay clerestory which has late C14 windows of three trefoiled lights under a pointed head. The east bay on the south side contains a re-set early C14 window of three lights with transom which has reticulated tracery under a pointed head. The east window is of six transomed lights with traceried head. The church is entered through a porch to the west of the tower. The northern doorway incorporates a re-set late Norman respond. On the south side of the porch is a doorway of similar date which once opened into the cloister.

INTERIOR: porch divided from church by timber plank and muntin screen. The east and west crossing arches are pointed, and wave-moulded in two orders which die into the responds. The north and south arches are blocked. Blocked arches which opened into the north and south chapels have capitals carved with scrolls. To each side of the east window are blocked doorways with Tudor-arched heads. The roof has a flat plaster ceiling with some attached carved timber bosses. The chancel screen is C15, has openings with pierced trefoiled heads and is topped by two bands of carved fruit and foliage. Within the sanctuary are some medieval floor tiles. Five stalls have carved elbows and mutilated misericords. Re-set in the east and north windows are fragments of C15 glass.

Listing NGR: SO7702940386

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.