Remains of Merevale Abbey
REMAINS OF MEREVALE ABBEY, MEREVALE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1365173
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Merevale Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF MEREVALE ABBEY, MEREVALE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1365173
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Merevale Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINS OF MEREVALE ABBEY, MEREVALE LANE
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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:
- REMAINS OF MEREVALE ABBEY, MEREVALE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- North Warwickshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Merevale
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 29227 97783
Details
MEREVALE MEREVALE LANE SP29NE (South-east side) 1/122 Remains of Merevale Abbey 23/11/51 (Formerly listed as Remains of Merevale Abbey in garden of farm) GV II* Abbey ruins. C13. Regular coursed sandstone. The remains consist principally of the north and south walls of the Refectory. The north wall rises to approximately 6 metres high on the left. 10 bar-stop-chamfered buttresses have moulded plinth and gablets. The wall drops to about 1.25 metres high. On the right is another large section of wall surrounding the elaborately moulded portal to the transept, of 3 orders with remains of nook-shafts. Beyond is a smaller, simpler archway of 2 chamfered orders; a section of curved wall to the right, probably largely rebuilt, is attached to Abbey Farmhouse (q.v.). Inside, the portal has a round arch and hood mould. To the right the wall has a high dado and 6 closely-set attached shafts with moulded bases and fillets; some retain moulded capitals. South wall has high splay and moulded plinth and remains of buttresses to left and right. Slight projection containing reading pulpit and staircase is approximately 4 metres high. Low section of wall to right. Inside is a moulded doorway with hood mould, the stone staircase with 2 quatrefoil peep-holes, and traces of 2 shafts of the pulpit. Merevale Abbey was a Cistercian house founded in 1148 by Robert, Earl Ferrers. Scheduled ancient monument. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire: p351; VCH: Warwickshire: Vol IV, p143)
Listing NGR: SP2922797783
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 309215
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1947), 143
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 351
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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