Description

WETHERAL WETHERAL
NY 4654

14/189 Wetheral Priory
1. 4.57. Gatehouse

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Gatehouse tower. C14, for Benedictine Priory of Wetheral. Dressed red
sandstone walls with moulded dressings and stone-slate replacement roof. 3
storeys, 2 bays. Chamfered plinth course and moulded string-course to each
storey, with battlemented parapet. Large round-headed moulded entrance arch
with barrel-vaulted passage. Mullioned windows of 2 lights with chamfered
dressings, hood moulds and trefoil cusped heads above entrance: windows in
other elevations are similar, but of one light. Label moulds to sides show
single storey roof line of original adjoining buildings now demolished.
Internal spiral staircase gives access to floors and roof. Priory was founded
c1100, but the gatehouse represents a later rebuilding, probably after the
destruction of the buildings following successive border raids. Scheduled A.M.
See, J.H. Martindale, The Priory of Wetheral, Transactions of the Cumberland &
Westmorland, Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, vol xxii, p.239-251.

Listing NGR: NY4680454120

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wetheral Priory Gatehouse at Wikipedia
• Wetheral Priory Gatehouse official website
• Wikidata Q3403072

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