Cloisters Ruin Approximately 100 Metres North Of Redbourne Hall

SK 9699-9799 REDBOURNE WADDINGHAM ROAD (east side, off)

22/77 Cloisters ruin approximately 100 metres north of Redbourne Hall 6.11.67 (formerly listed as Cloisters ruin, Redbourne Hall)

GV II

Folly. Probably late C18 - early C19, incorporating re-used medieval or later masonry, for Carter Estate or Duke of St Albans. Squared limestone and coursed rubble with limestone ashlar dressings; some brick to blocked section of window. North-south wall approximately 10 metres long, formerly formed north end of screen wall adjoining arcaded screen wall approximately 60 metres north of Redbourne Hall (qv). West face: central gabled section, approximately 5 metres long and 5 metres high, with quoins and pointed 2- light window with blocked lower portion and foiled Y-traceried head; lower section to right, approximately 3 metres long, with cross-shaped slit-window in rough gable; short section of tumbled wall, approximately 2 metres long, to left. Rear has portions of 2 rubble arches projecting at right angles from central section. Section connecting with arcaded wall to south was demolished c1980. The pointed window is similar to those in Redbourne Church (qv), suggesting that the folly was built for Rev Robert Carter Thelwall during the period of church rebuilding and Estate improvements in 1770s-80s. Alternatively the window may be a later insertion, from the chapel on the south side of the chancel, converted to a mausoleum for the Dukes of St Albans in the early C19. In decay at time of resurvey. Adjoining buildings are of no special interest.

Listing NGR: SK9775099700