St Mary's Abbey Leiston, England
Listed Building Data
St Mary's Abbey has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1215753
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 13 March 1951
- Name
- ST MARY'S ABBEY
- Location
- ST MARY'S ABBEY, ABBEY ROAD
- Parish
- Leiston
- District
- Suffolk Coastal
- County
- Suffolk
- Grid Reference
- TM 44521 64174
- Easting
- 644521.0000
- Northing
- 264174.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
TM 46 SW LEISTON-CUM-SIZEWELL ABBEY ROAD 4/27 St Mary's Abbey
13.3.51
GV I
Ruins of Premonstratensian Abbey. Founded in 1182; moved to this site in 1363 and rebuilt after a fire in 1382. Evidence of C12 and C13 work. Remaining walling is coursed flint, with some re-used brick and some flushwork, especially to St Mary's Chapel (Lady Chapel). Church had nave, aisles, a square crossing, transepts, a chancel and chancel aisles. St Mary's Chapel in the north chancel aisle was formerly used as a granary; restores for worship in C20. To the south of the church are extensive standing remains of the monastic ranges, including the refectory, warming house, cloister, sacristies and vestries. The chapter house stood to the east of the cloister. Remains of early C16 brick gatehouse to west of cloister. Scheduled Ancient Monument (County No 27).
Listing NGR: TM4452164174
