Wetheral Priory Gatehouse is a Grade I listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1957. A C14 Gatehouse.
Wetheral Priory Gatehouse
- WRENN ID
- hollow-cobble-bone
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1957
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
WETHERAL WETHERAL NY 4654
14/189 Wetheral Priory 1. 4.57. Gatehouse
I
Gatehouse tower. C14, for Benedictine Priory of Wetheral. Dressed red sandstone walls with moulded dressings and stone-slate replacement roof. 3 storeys, 2 bays. Chamfered plinth course and moulded string-course to each storey, with battlemented parapet. Large round-headed moulded entrance arch with barrel-vaulted passage. Mullioned windows of 2 lights with chamfered dressings, hood moulds and trefoil cusped heads above entrance: windows in other elevations are similar, but of one light. Label moulds to sides show single storey roof line of original adjoining buildings now demolished. Internal spiral staircase gives access to floors and roof. Priory was founded c1100, but the gatehouse represents a later rebuilding, probably after the destruction of the buildings following successive border raids. Scheduled A.M. See, J.H. Martindale, The Priory of Wetheral, Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland, Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, vol xxii, p.239-251.
Listing NGR: NY4680454120
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