St Mary's Priory House; The Priory Witney, England
Listed Building Data
St Mary's Priory House; The Priory has been designated a Grade II* 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1053064
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 3 March 1988
- Name
- ST MARY'S PRIORY HOUSE THE PRIORY
- Location
- ST MARY'S PRIORY HOUSETHE PRIORY
- Parish
- Witney
- District
- West Oxfordshire
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Grid Reference
- SP 36086 09652
- Easting
- 436085.7600
- Northing
- 209652.4028
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
WITNEY COGGES SP3609 8/90 The Priory and St. Mary's Priory House GV II*
Priory, now vicarage. c.1150-80; mainly c.1230-50; remodelled and reduced in size c. 1600-20. Uncoursed limestone rubble; gabled stone slate roof; rear lateral stack of stone finished in brick. Surviving C13 hall and services remodelled as 2-unit plan with central passage in early C17. 2 storeys; two blocks, including former hall to right, of 4-window range. Mid C13 pointed lancet to right; hood moulds over narrow mid C17 sashes set in moulded stone architraves; C20 door set in C17 pointed wall: hood moulds over mid Cl9 three-light window above early C17 cavetto-moulded stone-mullioned 4-light window; C13 windows with dressed stone surrounds, one blocked. Interior: C13 hall to right has pointed chamfered rere-arches of former windows to front and right; mid C13 common-rafter roof of very slight scantling with open notched-lap joints to braced collars. Jowled post and some timber framing remains of C13 timber screen to left of hall and flanking service passage; rear of passage has hollow-chamfered jambs of C13 door, with half-pyramid stops; 2 doorways with chamfered stone jambs to rear. C17 stop-chamfered beams, and moulded stone fireplace with spit rack to left. St. Mary's Priory House to right: built 1859. Squared and coursed linestone; gabled stone slate roof; stone end stacks. Double-depth plan. Elizabethan style. 2 storeys and attic; triple-gabled 3-window range. Canted bay window with sashes to right. Hood moulds over 2-light stone-mullioned windows with narrow mid C19 sashes. Entry to rear, Interior not inspected. History: The Priory was founded in 1103 as a daughter house of Fecamp Abbey. The roof is similar to the C13 roof of poles and small timbers at The Old Rectory, Standlake (q.v.). (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.551; J. Blair and J.M. Steane, "Investigations at Cogges, Oxfordshire, 1978-81: The Priory and Parish Church", 0xanensia, Vol.47, (1982)).
Listing NGR: SP3608709650
