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The Priory

North Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire

Dissolved and granted to James Nedham c.1536 (see brass in church) who adapted the priory buildings to a mansion

Architectural Features

Building stripped to shell and renovated 1973-4. The surviving building consists of the W part of the unaisled nave of the priory church with C16 and later extensions and alterations

Flint rubble C13 walls with uncoursed knapped flint facing, limestone ashlar facing to E end of S wall, the W gable top and buttress at the W end

C16 narrow red brick in English-bond walling to SW block and similar brickwork in N block

Steep old red tile roofs

Small 2-storeys C16 parallel block at SW lines with W end of nave

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