Chapel To Clare Priory

The Chapel to Clare Priory, originally the Infirmary, dates back to 1248. In 1748, it was converted into a barn, but in 1953, the Augustinian Order of Friars returned and repurposed it as a chapel. A 20th-century tablet notes that notable figures were buried here, including Joan of Acre, Countess of Gloucester, who died in 1305; Lionel, Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III, who died in 1368; and his wife Elizabeth, granddaughter of Joan of Acre, who died in 1363. The chapel is a 14th-century rubble building with stone dressings, featuring heavy diagonal corner buttresses and additional buttresses on the north and south sides. The lower windows have pointed arches with plain tracery, while the upper windows are small stone-dressed casements, which were formerly part of a loft or upper storey. The west gable includes three brick-dressed windows with segmental arched heads and ogee arched tracery. The interior underwent renovation in the 20th century, and the roof is tiled and hipped at the east end.