The Ruins of Bayham Abbey is a Grade I listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1953. A C13 Abbey, ruins.
The Ruins of Bayham Abbey
- WRENN ID
- third-shingle-fen
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Sussex Weald MP: Ms Nusrat Ghani (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1953
- Type
- Abbey, ruins
- Address
- The Ruins of Bayham Abbey, Bayham Road, Frant
- OS grid reference
- TQ 650 364
- Coordinates
- 51.10403, 0.35571
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ruins of Bayham Abbey are the remains of a Premonstratensian abbey founded at Otham around 1200 and relocated to Bayham between 1208 and 1211. The site features stone remnants of the church, cloister, chapter-house, and dormitory. It is designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Local climate
The Ruins of Bayham Abbey receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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