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ECCLESFIELD
PRIORY ROAD (east side)
Nos 44 and 44A (The Old Hall) and No 46 (The Priory)

(formerly listed as Eccles field Priorty (No 46))

25.2.52

II*

Former priory and house, now three dwellings. c1300 chapel block with altered contemporary crosswing and C19 restoration, house dated 1736. Sandstone : chapel block thinly coursed rubble, crosswing coursed and squared, house ashlar. Tiled roofs, stone slate to crosswing.

Irregular range : chapel block three storeys, two bays with two storey crosswing with single-bay gable set back to left. House to left three storeys, five bays with two storey single-bay addition to its left.

Chapel block : large quoins, set-back offset buttresses to right. Arched door to right a square-headed loop to left and to first floor. Upper floor with two-light trefoil-headed window to right, and single cusped lancet to left, both with leaded lights.

Crosswing : tall three-light cavetto-moulded mullion and transom window to ground floor, the central light a door. Hoodmould with square stops, Similar tall three-light window above with round-headed central light, hoodmould. Gable copings and ball finial.

House : chamfered plinth. Central part-glazed door in chamfered quoined surround, dated lintel. All ground and first floor bays with cross-mullioned wood casements beneath flat arches. Three second floor windows of two lights set beneath eaves. Lower two-storey addition to left has one three-light casement to each floor.

Right return : chapel to left has lancet window beneath east window of three trefoil.headed lancets under one arch, hoodmould. C19 stack to right at eaves has twin conical shafts. To right, in angle with crosswing, an external stack with shaped shaft. Crosswing to right has small C18 flat-roofed single-storey porch with panelled door and an oeil-de-bouef to its right. Above, two cavetto-moulded three-light mullion windows. To upper floor a cross-mullioned window to left and a (-light window to right with transom. Blocked upper floor doorway to right with chamfered quoined surround.

Interior : Chapel : piscina beneath south window, fitted aumbry in rear wall opposite. Crosswing : original pointed doorway into chapel. C19 tiled fireplaces depicting The Priory, Ecclesfield Church and scenes of St. Wandrille. Barrel-vaulted plaster ceiling in first floor room with acanthus and grape motifs in relief panels.

Ecclesfield Priory was an alien cell of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Wardrille in Normandy.

Listing NGR: SK3526494264

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Ecclesfield Priory at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4530247

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover