The Monks Oven is a Grade II* listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1989. A Medieval Oven.
The Monks Oven
- WRENN ID
- steep-newel-dust
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1989
- Type
- Oven
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST BRIDGET BECKERMET CALDER ABBEY NY 00 NE 4/61 The Monks' Oven GV II* Large detached oven of uncertain date but associated with the monastery in whose precinct it is built. Constructed of ashlar and rubble; exterior stone largely robbed out leaving earth-covered mound with single, very low, semicircular- headed doorway to centre of south-west face. Interior is c.1.75 m high and c.3.95 m in diameter. The floor is constructed of tightly-packed stones; the wall is constructed of ashlar and is of 3 courses with the top course shaped to act as a springer for the shallow-domed roof which is constructed of small stones packed tightly together end on. The monks' oven forms part of an important group of monastic buildings and is positioned alongside a mill-leat.
Listing NGR: NY0520606468
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