Remains Of Tresco Priory And Associated Monuments And Attached Walls

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TRESCO Remains of Tresco Priory and associated monuments and attached walls

(Formerly Listed as: Remains of Tresco Priory in Gardens of Tresco Abbey)

12.02.75

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Remains of Priory. c.1300; much rebuilt in C19. Granite rubble and cut granite walls. Nave, chancel and site of crossing. Chamfered arch of 2 orders to possible former crossing arch and smaller arch to ritual epistle side of nave. Other fragmentary features include north entry with chamfered jambs of 2 orders. Inscribed C6 Early Christian tombstone reset below the east jamb of the doorway reads "THI FILI...COGI (or TOGI)". In use for burials until C19, and memorials include chest tomb with slate top to James Pender, d.1711, and Mary Nicholas, d.1807. The priory is mentioned in a charter of Henry I as belonging to Tavistock Abbey in the reign of Edward the Confessor. Subsidiary features: tall granite rubble walls enclose garden to south east and extend approx. 50m to west with return of 40m to north.

(P Laws: The Buildings of Scilly: Redruth: 1980-: 5; B.H. St.J.O'Neil: Isles of Scilly: London (HMSO): 1950-: 12-14; Buildings of England: Pevsner, N., and Ratcliffe, E.: Cornwall (London: 2nd ed. 1970), 210).

Listing NGR: SV8947614232