Thoby Priory Ruins

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)

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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