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Latitude: 52.7055 / 52°42'19"N
Longitude: 0.6339 / 0°38'2"E
OS Eastings: 578048
OS Northings: 315231
OS Grid: TF780152
Mapcode National: GBR Q78.C36
Mapcode Global: WHKQN.Q818
Plus Code: 9F42PJ4M+5H
Entry Name: Priory Gatehouse
Listing Date: 19 October 1951
Last Amended: 13 April 1987
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1077660
English Heritage Legacy ID: 221913
ID on this website: 101077660
Location: West Acre, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, Norfolk, PE32
County: Norfolk
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk
Civil Parish: West Acre
Traditional County: Norfolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Norfolk
Church of England Parish: West Acre All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Norwich
Tagged with: Architectural structure
TF 7815
10/45
WEST ACRE
CHURCH GREEN (south side)
Priory Gatehouse
(formerly listed as Priory Gatehouse and remains of Abbey Farm buildings)
19.10.51
G.V.
I
Gatehouse. C14. North entrance to outer court of Priory of St. Mary and All Saints, founded c.1100 by de Toni family. Later adopted Augustinian rule. Dissolved 1538, one of the first of the greater houses to surrender. Flint with stone dressings, roofless. 2 storeys. North side has 2 centred double hollow chamfered arch set on chamfered jambs. 3 shields with coats of arms above, legible in C18 as de Toni and Beauchamp, Earls of Warwick, further Beauchamp coat. First floor with single chamfered lancet. Springing of gable. South-east angle buttress with set offs. Interior of arch has angle shafts supporting quadripartite stone rib vaults with brick infilling. South face has 2 2-centred arches within one embrassure, a further outer former north springing of second inner vault. Clunch and brick courses above.
Scheduled Ancient Monument, County Number 170.
See F.H. Fairweather and H.L. Bradfer-Lawrence 'The Priory .. Westacre' Norfolk Archaeology XXIII, 1929, pp.359-394 (ref. p. 373).
Listing NGR: TF7804815231
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