St Augustines Priory is a Grade II* listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1983. Priory. 10 related planning applications.
St Augustines Priory
- WRENN ID
- still-chancel-yarrow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot MP: Martin Wrigley (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1983
- Type
- Priory
- Address
- St Augustines Priory, Priory Road, Abbotskerswell, TQ12 5PP
- OS grid reference
- SX 864 690
- Coordinates
- 50.51021, -3.60335
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
St Augustines Priory receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 20 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 10 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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