Remains Of Cluniac Benedictine Priory Of St Mary And St Peter And St Paul

monastery, C15

C16 alterations and additions in west range forming Prior's Lodging.

Founded 1090 by William de Warrene, second Earl of Surrey, dissolved 1537.

Church west elevation of early C12, Romanesque freestone tripartite facade.

Large Perpendicular west window, with flanking diaper pattern Norman blank windows.

Detail of the underside of the doorway arch.

© Michael Garlick

Remains of C12 nave, aisles, crossing, transepts, chapels, choir and sanctuary.

Outline of reconstructed apsed east end terminations after Cluny II altered to square ends in C14

C12 monastic quadrangle to south, with Chapter house, Dormitory with undercroft and stairs, garde-robe.

C14 Infirmary.

South range with Norman Refectory and kitche, further later kitchen.

West range has C12 Prior's Lodging

west gate, altered in C15

Central c.1500 flint chequerwork and timber frame gabled pantiled 2 storey porch with 4-centred arch and window.

C12 zig zag arch and 2 bay rib vaulted passage.

Refaced facade of C12 west range to north, with C12 range refaced in C16 at north-west.

2 storey gabled west elevations with C15 first floor stone oriel, north face with perhaps C16 post-Dissolution stone bowed first floor window on buttress base with squinches.

Norman ground floor door.

Interior has ground floor C12 aisled vaulted undercroft with parlatorium to north.

First floor Prior's Chapel with C12 arched apsed sanctuary, C14 east window and sedile.

C15 scissor braced roof, remains of inner moulded ceiling.

Presumably post-Dissolution C16 inserted stack divides into 2 chambers.

Scheduled Ancient Monument, County Number 2.