Description

LANGLEY WITH HARDLEY LANGLEY GREEN
TG 30 SE
3/47 Langley Abbey Remains
25.9.51

GV I

Ruined remains of the abbey house of Premonstratensian Canons, founded 1195.
Remains generally Cl3 and Cl5. Flint with some limestone dressings. Abbey
church with north aisle (south aisle incorporated in cloister), transepts,
chancel with north and south chapels. Chapter house with dormitory range
east of cloister, infirmary and some remains of refectory. Of particular
note is the early C13 chapter house entrance arch, pointed with plain
chamfers and with deeply cusped inner order on moulded corbels; two plain
flanking windows with pointed heads. Remains of blank arcading in south
wall. One staged corner buttress, C15, remains of infirmary. Scheduled
Ancient Monument, County No. 150. Ref. Norfolk Archaeology vol. xxi "The
Premonstratensian Abbey of Langley, Co. Norfolk" by F.C. Elliston Erwood.

Listing NGR: TG3628002854

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Langley Abbey at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q6486219

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments