Remains of Lilleshall Abbey is a Grade I listed building in the Telford and Wrekin local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1959. A Late Norman to Early English Abbey, monastic remains.
Remains of Lilleshall Abbey
- WRENN ID
- ruined-cloister-sorrel
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Telford and Wrekin
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1959
- Type
- Abbey, monastic remains
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/05/2020
SJ 71SW 29/420
LILLESHALL LILYHURST ROAD Remains of Lilleshall Abbey
18.6.59
GV I Scheduled Ancient Monument. Founded circa 1148 by Richard de Belmeis for Canons of the Augustinian Order of Aras. The building is late Norman to Early English. The extant ruins comprise:- nearly the whole of the church about 228 ft long with a very fine west doorway of Transitional Norman of the C12 and a fragment of a lofty wall adjoining to the north with trefoiled blank arcading; chapels on each side of the chancel and the north and south transept; the vesty; the cloisters; the chapter house (except the east wall) and the frater (on the south side of the courtyard). The site was carefully explored in 1891.
During the Civil War, the Abbey then the house of Sir Richard Leveson was fortified for the King and practically destroyed in a siege by the Parliamentary forces.
Listing NGR: SJ7374814220
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