Description

DENWICK HULNE PARK
NU 11 NE
6/63 Hulne Friary;
ruins of church and
31.12.69
claustral buildings
GV I

Ruins of Carmelite Friary. Foundation c.1240 by William de Vesci; claustral
buildings converted into house in C16; some late C18/early C19 alterations.
Squared stone. Long aisleless church with south-east sacristy; cloister on
south; east range incorporating cloister walk, with chapter house and warming
house/reredorterblock both projecting to east. West gable of church with tall
lancet and vesica above; south wall has 3 trefoiled lancets above corbelling
for cloister roof, doorway to walking place between nave and choir, two 2-
light windows to west of sacristy, triple sedilia and part of piscina. North
wall and east end much reduced. Gabled 2-storey sacristy has piscina and
recess with bowl, shelf and flue. Chapter house has double-chamfered door
and 4 trefoiled lancets on south; warming house with fireplace. Transomed
windows in south gable end of east range may be post-Dissolution alterations,
as are blocked openings in south wall of cloister. Wall on west of cloister
is outer wall of former west range, with attached C18 Gothick privy below
earlier 1st floor fireplace and stack; to right is C18 summerhouse (q.v.).

Unusual graveslab with Tau cross in floor of nave; worn slab set in west end
of church brought in early C19 from St. Waleric's Church at Alnmouth. C18
statue of praying friar by south wall of chapter house.

The best preserved and probably the earliest Carmelite friary in England;
foundations of other buildings, identified from C16 survey, excavated 1888-9
by Duke of Northumberland, but now covered over.

W.H. St. John Hope, 'On the Whitefriars or Carmelites of Hulne, Northumberland'.
Archaeol. J. XLVII (1890) 105-129.

Listing NGR: NU1637315700

External Links

• Historic England Listing

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair