Ruins Of St Radegund'S Abbey (The Uninhabited Portions)

Ruins of St Radegund’s Abbey date to the 13th century and are built of rubble and ashlar with flint detailing. They currently form the entrance gatehouse and forecourt to St Radegund’s Farmhouse. The remains represent the cloister of the Premonstratensian Abbey of St Radegund. A three-story tower, the top story being ruinous, is constructed of coursed flint and decorated with triangular ashlar blocks. It features two large offset buttresses, with a central 16th-century red brick semi-circular arch and four chamfered lights on the first floor. The tower's interior has a tripartite plan, with side chambers displaying chamfered and moulded arches and springers for vaulting. Originally the tower of the church, it is set in the re-entrant angle of the nave and north transept. The earlier ashlar west wall of the north transept, visible on the tower's left return, includes responds of a chapel and north chancel aisle arcade. A connecting wall extends from the tower south to the Farmhouse, featuring four openings, two of which are blocked, each with moulded and chamfered arches originally supported by shafts with round capitals and water-holding bases. These were the doorways to the chapter house. Portions of the chapter house and adjoining south chapels of the church survive to the east of the connecting wall, forming the cloister's east wall. Further portions of masonry remain to the south and east of the tower, partially standing to full height, demonstrating the remains of the church’s nave, a moulded doorway to the tower, the cellarer's building and guesthouse, and the west range of the cloister. The north gable end of this range survives to full height, with lancets, and a range of deep rere-arches to the ground floor lancets along the long wall. The remains are surrounded by extensive earthworks, a scheduled Ancient Monument, incorporating isolated blocks of masonry. A substantial length of walling, approximately 30 metres long and 6 feet high, runs about 10 metres northeast and then turns approximately 30 metres southeast, lies about 30 metres northeast of the tower/gatehouse.