Description

MOUNTNESSING

TQ69NW THOBY LANE
723-1/6/475 (North side)
29/12/52 Thoby Priory Ruins
(Formerly Listed as:
BRENTWOOD
PRIORY DRIVE, Mountnessing
Thoby Priory Ruins)

II

Ruins of Augustinian Priory. C14 and C15. Flint rubble and red
brick in English bond. Section about 15m long of S wall of
presbytery, aligned E-W, turning N for one metre at E end,
with diagonal buttress at corner. Abuts on an early C19 brick
wall to E, not of special architectural or historic interest.
Includes 2 windows with 2-centred arches, splayed to the N,
the tracery missing. The W window is much obscured by creeper
at time of inspection, June 1989. The E window is C15, of red
bricks 0.23m long by 0.10m wide by 0.06m deep, cut to shape,
blocked with red bricks in English bond to a height of 2m. The
rubble contains Roman brick and tile, and has bonding courses
of red brick similar to that of the E window. Some dressings
of clunch, much eroded, and limestone. The priory was founded
in the first half of the C12 and suppressed in 1525.

Listing NGR: TQ6267798729

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26581141

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)