St Augustines Priory

St Augustine's Priory is an early 19th-century house that was remodelled and extended as a priory in 1861, with a chapel added in 1863 by J.A. Hansom. The chapel was consecrated in 1863. The building is constructed of stone rubble with freestone and brick dressings, and slate roofs. The plan incorporates monastic buildings arranged around an early 19th-century house at its core.

The three-storey west wing has a mansard roof and a five-bay, one-bay, five-bay facade. The central section features a large projecting tower with an arched entrance and broached corners to the lower stage. Above this is an octagonal upper stage, covered by a slate roof with half-hipped gables and topped with a helm spire including a clock face. The five windows to the left and right have pointed arch heads on the first floor, a tented-roof verandah to the ground floor, and half-hipped dormers in the mansard roof. The chapel, to the east, has a gabled clerestory with geometric traceried windows and a large octagonal tower over the east end, featuring buttresses at the corners and arcaded lights. A squat, slate-roofed octagonal tower with quatrefoil windows and a central octagonal wooden lantern are also present. The central two-storey early 19th-century house has a slate roof, stuccoed facade, sash windows, some splayed bays, and a tented-roof iron verandah to the ground floor.

The interiors of the chapel and chapter house are completely intact. The chapel's nave has an arched-brace roof supported by colonettes and large angel corbels. The fittings are complete, including a remarkable gothic altar by C.A. Buckler, lit from a lantern above within the large octagonal tower, which stands on stilted arches with marble and banded columns featuring carved capitals. Other parts of the building may contain interior features of interest.

The Priory served as the principal house of the Augustinian English Cannonesses Regular, who established it in 1861.