Architectural Features
Main buildings from c.1237 until late C13, when the earlier buildings were also extended.
Church completed c.1277.
Circa 1364 church aisles demolished, except for that on south of nave which became north cloister walk, arcades blocked and windows inserted
Also C14 are frater and building to north-west of cloister.
C15 addition of kitchen to south-east of cloister linking with prior's lodgings, which were altered and extended.
North walls survive to level of heads of moulded 2-centred arches of arcade, the blocking enclosing original columns and containing windows with reticulated tracery, dated to 1364, only that in the quire surviving complete.
quire and presbytery have 3 north arches, the easternmost with capital revealed to show finely-carved acanthus leaves, crockets and pine cones.
on east, a small C14 door between blocked 2-centred-arched door to chapel, and similar window with Decorated tracery, each with altar below.
interior shows stepped stone wall benches along 3 sides, with stone arms to Prior's seat at centre east: south end of range subdivided by C15 walls into storage rooms and large south room of unknown function, without windows.
C15 divisions in west bays.
Cloister walks show C13 bases of paired shafts on south,
C14 windows surviving only to sill level on east and west.
C15 stair-turret to north.
C15 garderobes.
The history of the site begins with St. Godric living there from 1115 until his death in 1170, when the buildings became the property of the Prior of the Convent of Durham (Benedictine).
In 1196 it was granted to Hugh Puiset, son of Bishop le Puiset, in return for the closing of his Augustinian Canons' foundation, (a daughter house of Guisborough) called New Place on the River Browney
A schedule ancient monument.