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Latitude: 52.761 / 52°45'39"N
Longitude: -1.3564 / 1°21'22"W
OS Eastings: 443530
OS Northings: 318351
OS Grid: SK435183
Mapcode National: GBR 7J8.ZWR
Mapcode Global: WHDHN.4VCQ
Plus Code: 9C4WQJ6V+CF
Entry Name: Ruins of Grace Dieu Priory
Listing Date: 7 December 1962
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1074118
English Heritage Legacy ID: 358049
ID on this website: 101074118
Location: North West Leicestershire, LE67
County: Leicestershire
District: North West Leicestershire
Civil Parish: Belton
Traditional County: Leicestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Leicestershire
Church of England Parish: Belton St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Leicester
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BELTON ASHBY ROAD
SK 41 NW
6/2 Ruins of Grace Dieu
Priory
7.12.62
- II
Ruins of Augustinian nunnery. Founded c1240 by Roesia de Verdun. Most of
surviving detail is C15-C17. Random rubble stone with ashlar dressings, no
roofs. Plan is now indistinct and only fragments of walls survive, though up to
2 storeys in height with some taller chimneys. At NE end is a block with gabled
east wall, wide 4-centred moulded C15 arch at east end, buttress, and some
moulded window surrounds with fragments of tracery. Running south and west from
this is a long wall, probably part of dormitory range, with irregular door and
window openings, some retaining moulded stone dressings, and chamfered 4-centred
stone fireplace arches. At south west end is a tall C17 chimney stack, mostly
of brick with stone dressings, with remains of 2 square shafts. Fireplaces have
stone jambs, the lower fireplace with segmental brick arch and oven. Another
chimney adjacent. Other remains have no surviving features. At the Dissolution
the priory became the home of the Beaumont family, and later the childhood home
of the early C17 dramatist Francis Beaumont. Scheduled Ancient Monument No 14.
Listing NGR: SK4353018351
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