Bicknacre Priory Ruins is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. Ruins.
Bicknacre Priory Ruins
- WRENN ID
- stony-storey-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- Ruins
- Address
- Bicknacre Priory Ruins, Bicknacre Road, Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre
- OS grid reference
- TL 785 026
- Coordinates
- 51.69456, 0.58232
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bicknacre Priory Ruins are the remnants of a priory founded in 1157 for Augustinian canons by Maurice Fitzgerald. The priory never thrived, and the last canon passed away in 1507. Today, only the west arch of the crossing of the church, dating from around 1250, remains. This structure is made of rubble and some brick and is located in a field to the north of Priors Field, with access from Bicknacre Road, CM3 4ES.
Local climate
Bicknacre Priory Ruins sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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