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Latitude: 51.4442 / 51°26'39"N
Longitude: -0.5566 / 0°33'23"W
OS Eastings: 500410
OS Northings: 172679
OS Grid: TQ004726
Mapcode National: GBR F91.J27
Mapcode Global: VHFTH.9YMR
Plus Code: 9C3XCCVV+M9
Entry Name: Ankerwyke Priory Ruins
Listing Date: 23 September 1955
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1319364
English Heritage Legacy ID: 40703
ID on this website: 101319364
Location: Runnymede, Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, TW19
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Civil Parish: Wraysbury
Built-Up Area: Wraysbury
Traditional County: Buckinghamshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Berkshire
Church of England Parish: Wraysbury
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Architectural structure
C13 and C15 ruins of Ankerwyke Priory.
C13 and C15. Two short lengths of two storey chalk rubble wall, one L-plan other partly of red brick. Three windows of C13, C14 and C15.
VCH 111 p.321 RCHM.
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/06/2015
Ankerwyke Priory, a Benedictine nunnery lies across the River Thames from Runnymede. The Priory was founded in the late C12 and was dedicated to St Mary Magdalene.
Magna Carta, which means ‘Great Charter’, was sealed at Runnymede on 15th June 1215. This was an agreement between King John and his barons and clergy which, for the first time, made the monarch subject to the laws of the land. It also gave free men the right to justice and a fair trial. Over the subsequent 800 years it has influenced many constitutional documents including the United States’ Bill of Rights.
Runnymede today is a memorial landscape to the on-going struggle for democracy and liberty.
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